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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1940
Page
6
A fashion note touts Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1909 B for home and street wear with easy sewing steps and sizes 12 through 40. An extended retrospective traces the Derby name from its 18th century English roots to American races, humorously critiquing modern derbies.
The piece links Queen Victoria and Prince Albert as symbols of propriety and dignity, noting Albert's key role in the Great Exhibition. It then recalls Anthony Comstock, founder of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, whose fight against vice coined the term comstockery and shaped moral crusades in late 19th century America.
An assortment of sauce recipes and kitchen notes. Includes Orange Sauce, Buttered Vanilla Cream, Italian Tomato Sauce, Hollandaise, Barbecue Sauce, Cheese Souffle with Tomato Cream Sauce, Tomato Cream Sauce, and Hot Butterscotch Sauce with steps and ingredients. Also features Homemaking notes on spring cleaning and Busy-Day Meals with a magic butter rolls recipe and yeast dough process.
An advertisement promises revelation on page 19 of the May issue of True Story Magazine. It claims a wife’s accusation will be explained, with a tagline about roiling quiet and hidden truths, attributed to an unnamed author and Seneca quotation.
Roy Cummings, son of East Baxford's wealthy Godfrey Cummings, flirts with a churchgoing Mamie Summers then proposes, but the match fails under family pressure. Five years later Roy returns married to a feminist lecturer, while Mamie again helps a drunk Roy at the church steps, symbolically returning a favor with a sly remark.
ST LOUIS James M Shuey a pioneer gold miner has passed the century mark yet says he has not worried since the 1849 gold rush when he and his father left for California in a covered wagon They journeyed to Salt Lake City dug for gold found little and returned east settling in Franklin County Missouri He later moved to St Louis worked for railroads and carried mail He and his wife Reid married when she was 15 They have 13 children 12 grandchildren seven great grandchildren and eight great great grandchildren He remains alert to voices though his sight is failing and plans to outlive the family
Abdul Medjid backs fez ban as progressive Turkey urges western headgear. Yet peasants still wear hats resembling the long prohibited turban, showing lingering traditional attire amid reform efforts.
A series of questions asks which European country has long been at peace and explores curious trivia. The item presents seven general knowledge prompts about history science and language.
The Republic of Andorra sits in the Pyrenees valley between France and Spain. Asbestos is noncombustible as a mineral. A cubic foot of gold weighs 1 204 pounds. Westerns are sometimes called horse operas. Biting frog development from egg occurs in adulthood. Coal is impure carbon while diamonds are pure crystallized carbon. A Buddhist prayer printed in 756 A D owned by the Art Institute of Chicago.
Eggy uses horse sense in selecting her cigarettes and finds Camels burn slower, offering more pleasure per puff and more puffs per pack. The ad emphasizes Camels smoother flavor and cooler smoke as a better choice for a slower, richer experience.
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