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Newspaper
The Rittman Press
Location
Rittman, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1939
Page
2
The article explains how faster camera lenses improve daylight and low light snapshots, action shots, and night photography. It compares f numbers from f/7.7 to f/2, noting speed increases yield clearer images, better exposure, and broader subject range in any condition.
January offerings at Ohio State University cover hybrid seed production for commercial florists nurserymen and garden retailers and poultrykeepers. Full details available from Dean John Cunningham College of Agriculture.
A reader asks for a Sally Lunn recipe with flour sugar eggs and shortening details and a note on publishing an inexpensive one dish meal using dried lima beans shoulder pork chops onion and water. The message includes several recipe fragments and a requested Overnight Prune Bread method with compressed yeast and prunes.
Step by step bread dough mix with yeast water egg salt and flour followed by butter molasses and rest. Mentions Lorraine Cross symbol as TB fight emblem. Notes price declines for storage butter from 1929 to 1933 and a dairy herd improvement case in Defiance. Also covers poultry vaccination timing and note of immunity.
Ann Rutherford, featured in Dancing Co-Ed, uses the studio gym for a two hour workout then reports to the set for dance routines. She advocates daily walking for health, aiming at least 15 minutes a day on the walking machine, praising it as a whole body exercise. The Press Office sells distinctive stationery to particular people.
Michael Todd brings the musical comedy Hot Mikado to the Hanna Theatre Cleveland for a week from New Year's Eve. Starring Bill Robinson with the original 150 cast, the production features elaborate costumes, Harlem dancers, and a return to the full length version after Broadway and World’s Fair runs.
A Columbus report from Ohio State University officials notes that seed breeding deserves farmer attention akin to animal breeding. Ohio certified corn hybrids outperform open pollinated types by 15 to 25 percent in 1939 field tests, with 57 percent of Ohio corn acreage planted to hybrids and 90 percent of hybrid seed certified.
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