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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1943
Page
6
Kathleen Norris counsel to Bob Ellis on his wife Betty, who left home for a munitions plant job and a string of affairs with older men. Norris frames the conflict as wartime strain, urges patience and forgiveness, and predicts social readjustments as millions of returning veterans reshape work and family life.
A fragmented 1930s style monologue expresses nostalgia for old wallpaper and house painting. The speaker, adopting a Germanic accent, laments modern wall coverings and longs for traditional decor, then imagines painting borders while implying a grim, obsessive drift into a Nazi-themed dream. The piece juxtaposes domestic acts with unsettling political overtones.
In a humorous but pointed column, Mrs Elmer Twitchell urges a national protest against bottle deposits and returns, arguing housewives lose time and effort managing empties. The piece shifts to summer drink ideas from Lynn Chambers, offering cool citrus, sherbets, and fruit-forward beverages, plus salad and meal ideas for hot weather. The column also notes a brief item about a candy network purchase and a vitamin C emphasis in summer drinks.
A husband seeks Kathleen Norris advice about a wandering wife, a 32 year old with new profitable work and two children cared for by her mother in law. She socializes with other men, including a man with a wife and children. The adviser counsels forgiveness and hopes for marital recovery after the war.
Lynn reports coffee supplies are returning to normal and rationing could end by mid August. Current rationing allows more coffee per stamp than at any time since it began. Canners can obtain extra sugar stamps to aid home canning as fruits and vegetables stay scarce this year.
A collection of domestic hacks for walls, fingerprints, and lemon polishing, plus guidance on sending care packages to service members overseas and stateside. It notes air comfort on hot nights, urges thoughtful gifts like Camel cigarettes, and reports post office limits on overseas shipments.
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