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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1944
Page
6
Cookies and bars recipes emphasize pantry friendly treats. Oatmeal Peanut Butter Cookies use peanut butter shortening brown sugar flour and oats to yield four dozen with optional frosting and candied cherries. Hermit Bars combine butter sugar milk molasses and cake flour for a distinctive bake.
A clipping lists Lynn Chambers point-sayings and multiple old fashioned cookie and brownie recipes. It includes orange refrigerator cookies, cornflake cookies, and economy brownies with detailed ingredients and baking instructions, plus a request to obtain a "meat roasting chart" from Miss Chambers.
A playful guide urges preheating the oven and assembling equipment before baking cookies. It covers measuring ingredients, preparing sheets, greasing when needed, buttering waxed paper, and proper shortening temperature, noting beated bags and direct addition for small quantities.
Doris Freeson recalls Fifth Army soldiers shopping for gifts in Naples while off duty. The piece highlights silk stockings, gloves, and jewelry trends, the mail from home as the prized item, and soldiers’ efforts to pick suitable tokens for loved ones. It notes Pompeii, Vesuvius environs, Capri, Caserta palace, and an army camp life on a crowded Naples apartment, with vivid but neutral observations.
Kathleen Norris argues that faults learned in childhood can be corrected through conscious effort and grace, not science, and links this to postwar housecleaning. She cites jealousy, suspicion, and selfishness as curable with determination, urging honesty and service as foundations for rebuilding a new world.
The piece argues faults in children are not fixed and can be cured by conscious effort and grace. It urges eradicating personal hates and prejudices to build a new world of honesty, brotherhood, and service, warning evils exist to undermine wartime sacrifices for millions less fortunate.
In a wartime appeal the speaker urges sacrifice and reform beginning in the home led by mothers. She warns against indifference and urges action for Red Cross, Scouts, and children’s hospitals, plus policing slums and guiding girls toward safer pursuits. Endorses daily prayers and optimism for national betterment.
United States births rose from 2,513,427 in 1841 to 2,808,986 in 1942 while infant mortality fell from 45 to 40 per 1,000. Canada births climbed from 255,317 to 271,881 with mortality at 60 in 1941 and 54 in 1942. The United Kingdom registered 115,422 births in 1942, its highest since 1831, yet its infant mortality at 62 per 1,000 was the lowest on record.
Inexpensive BVEN fabric like unbleached muslin can become attractive aprons with bright appliques. Use red cotton for cherries and green for leaves to create a lovely lapfront. Send 16 cents, name, address, and pattern No 6520 to obtain complete applique design and finishing instructions. War demand slows some pattern orders slightly due to current conditions.
A collection of thrifty household hints covers shaping a baby bonnet, doughnut storage, hem pressing, soap use for driving nails, skirt construction from worn pants, repurposing sheets for curtains and garments, refreshing chenille and candlewick, and skimming fat from soup to reduce grease while reusing fats with meat dealers.
An American go getter asks a western wigwam chief why he does not work. The chief questions each reason with why and ends by noting he is not working now, implying contentment without labor or savings. The tale reflects a parable about retirement and wealth.
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