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Newspaper
Thomson Review
Location
Thomson, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1939
Page
6
The United States uniquely enrolls one in five children in high school and one in 116 in college, highlighting the country’s focus on secondary and higher education. This comparative stat outlines the nation’s educational reach and its implications for future workforce development.
Sabula humor column by Wade Guenther blends wry reflections and social quips on old year customs gossip and local foibles. It weaves jokes about stockings, law yers, mistaken travel plans, witty one liners, and light social satire through a parade of anecdotes and cartoons based on small town life.
A Thomson Farmers Institute entry mixes humor about a minister and a suitor with prize recipes. Included are Batched cookies such as Bachelor Buttons and Rolled Sugar Cookies, plus detailed instructions for making taffy, with tips on pulling and flavoring.
Recipe steps describe making fondant by dissolving sugar in water and corn syrup, boiling to 240 degrees, adding glycerine and peppermint oil, cooling, folding in stiff egg white, kneading smooth, shaping into uniform pieces, and dipping with Hershey's dipping chocolate as advised by Mrs Jennie Lowery of Thomson.
A nervous actor asks a director about roles in two reel shorts. The director dismisses him, saying to get a bathing suit if he wants a part. A stray line notes the Pacific end of the Panama Canal is 27 miles east of the Atlantic entrance.
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