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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1945
Page
3
Kathleen Norris calls for a meaningful Christmas focusing on discharged service members. She urges readers to contact Red Cross, service clubs, or hospitals to learn needs, share hospitality, and avoid extravagance. She highlights simple, inexpensive gifts and acts of kindness as a way to honor veterans and bring joy to hospitals and families.
Holiday message urges generosity after depression and war. It calls on readers to brighten the days of the sick in hospitals, the aged in homes, orphans, cripples, and wounded veterans from both wars. Suggests inviting them to homes, visiting, and giving small gifts where possible.
A sister receives a yearly gift of freedom for Christmas via Margaret’s generosity. Each year, Margaret spends a day in town with friends, shopping, lunch, and dinner, while the narrator and their sister grow their family. The piece lauds the act as nurturing tradition and a remedy for postwar gloom, turning sadness into warmth.
A good dress pattern helps avoid a homemade look by providing accurate sizing and initial fit. Farmers' Bulletin 1968 explains measuring the figure, altering pattern pieces, and updating the basic pattern each year to keep up with changes in shoulder and armseye lines.
A short tale from China about a pauper couple who sleep under a bridge by the Yangtze. They reflect on daily life as a banker, the town's wealthiest man, passes muttering of losses and the wife remarks their lack of financial worries. The husband retorts about who the wife owes her fortune.
Miss Minnie Belle Poole writes that Faultless Starch keeps white uniforms pristine and colored fabrics bright. The ad touts special starch ingredients that resist browning, provide interior finish, and ease ironing with ironing aids to prevent sticking. It promises quick, easy preparation and urges readers to try the product.
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