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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1932
Page
2
A NORMAAL child shares imaginative kitchen advice for cooks and housekeepers. Practical tips cover making peas exciting with butter and bacon, scalloping oysters with moisture and seasonings, browning sugar for darker gravies, wrapping fowl in cheesecloth for tenderness, and adding gelatin to canned soups to mold.
A fragment discusses using dry fruit for jams to avoid spoilage, boiling fruit after gathering, and preserving enameled pans with warm water. It mentions sweet potato croquettes served with chops, and repurposing painted ironing mats as hooks or racks.
In Neuhaus upper Austria a peasant and a water diviner uncovered a radium rich soil layer nine feet deep. Herr Franz Niegl used a pendulum to locate water and claimed abundant finds. Government analysis in Vienna confirmed high radium content, suggesting 11,000 tons could yield a kilogram of pure radium across a field four to eight feet deep.
A young girl named Seraphina Stone fears crowds and animals yet finds courage through her mother’s counsel. She spends a bright day interacting with cows, sheep, and a playful puppy, then earns a badge of courage for brave persistency.
A partial Q A explains the Aurora Borealis caused by solar discharge into the atmosphere. It notes animals see in darkness due to larger pupil openings. It cites summer warmth from higher sun position and longer days storing heat. It mentions crustacean molting and shell hardening of crabs after shedding.
In Petersburg Indiana Thomas Snyder ninety visits the town with remarks that cars have decimated the local umbrella repair business. Snyder, a former sailor who held a Queen Victoria license, left the sea 87 years ago to repair umbrellas and plans to return for his hundredth birthday. Also noted is a 143 year old geography by Jedidan Morse treasured by C. H. Burnham of Holyoke referencing Governor William Livingston.
Girolamo Piarza an eighty eight year old Italian man in Parma prepared for death by dressing in his best and seeking the last rites from a parish priest who heard his confession and gave him communion. He visited an undertaker to arrange a coffin and then greeted friends before going to bed and was found dead the next morning.
Dialogue fragments feature Lord Gloucester asserting certainty while Bogishman and Tom Cheek doubtfully chime in. The exchange hints at self confident speakers and a playful debate over knowing everything.
The passage discusses the phrase gone to pot as an old metaphor for breakdown. It notes the expression’s meaning and historical origin dating back to 1581, with discussion of its usage and literary context.
Grass Valley worker Callf Joseph Hobson slipped in a Pennsylvania gold mine shaft. The fall was not perfectly vertical but the shaft’s steepness prevented a controlled stop. Hobson suffered only minor bruises and was able to recover at the scene.
West Side court charged Premmerick Meder, 24, with violating a suspended sentence by phoning nurse Paula Reichmayer up to twenty times daily to demand marriage. He had previously tricked his way into Prwat’s apartment with a Morse mustache. Magistrate Irwin set bail at 100 dollars.
In a quirky feature, Julion Street and Mrs Street discuss an pre dawn hospital trip leading to a New York awakening free of traffic. Street recalls a taxi ride through eerily empty streets with cinematic speed and a horse drawn sleigh tale from Willard Fairchild in snowy Connecticut, ending with a veteran comfort in handling horses.
A city youth helps control a large horse after it bolted a ride for a pair of men. He unhooks harness pieces, relocates them in the barn, and ties the horse securely to a stall post, leaving the farm owner pleased with the careful, orderly handling of the property.
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