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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1942
Page
6
A feature on simple pot luck suppers with crowd friendly dishes and methods. Includes Russet Half Shells with sausages, salmon loaf with pea sauce, pork chops and baked beans, and a two loaf old fashioned bread recipe. Also offers table setting tips and a contributor note from Lynn Chambers.
Ned narrates how Herbert Allis left Raeburn to lead Barkley in a feud between rival colleges. Herbert rose on fame despite lacking a master’s degree, pressured by Barkley’s disparagement, and Raeburn’s tradition. He joins Barkley, then returns to Raeburn for a dorm dedication where a posthumous MA is awarded and he finally leaves in anger.
The column urges using soap scraps saved in a soap shaker to wash dishes and clothes, advising economical water use and proper machine loading. It recommends six to eight pounds of dry laundry, thorough soap-water mixing, about two inches of suds, and careful water temperatures for whites colors synthetics and woolens.
The University of Michigan will host a war department laboratory for gauging and precision measurement. It features an eight inch micrometer accurate to ten thousandths, master gauge blocks for 125000 measurements, light wave interference devices, a projection gear analysis system, and a universal measuring machine for direct or comparative measurements to a millionth of an inch on pieces up to 48 inches long.
Small light chain weights in the bottom hem of lace net curtains give a well tailored appearance. Hung with generous fullness to floor length, the technique is a common decorator trick. Weights also prevent glass curtains from blowing into the room when windows are open.
In this set from a trivia section, the prompt lists eight questions on topics from Latin American mestizo meaning to the Alamo battle memory and intrastate commerce. It provides concise answers: mestizo is a person of mixed blood. Cecil Rhodes. San Jacinto. within a state. John the Baptist. everything in life nothing in tennis. since 1821. Martin Van Buren.
Miners in Virginia long ago uncovered a deer skeleton in an iron ore bog. The animal was not petrified but “terrified” as it turned to iron from prolonged immersion in iron-bearing water.
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