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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1939
Page
8
Halton Cloth Lovely inspires crocheters with a medallion pattern. Pattern 1959 includes diagrams of stitches and materials, plus a photograph. Send 15 cents with name address and pattern number to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept. 82 Highth Ave New York NY.
A raw recruit appointed camp cook makes soup in the same boiler used for breakfast tea. He tells the mess room, If you find any tea leaves in the soup, you`ll know it`s mint. The anecdote reflects rustic wit from English camp life.
A collage of light cartoon captions and quips shows Boss versus Mose jokes about failed schemes and odd profits. Jokes touch editor poets, a politican taxing memory, and a village lamp joke about thunder storms, plus lines on fashion and marriage rumors.
World faces pivotal 1940 with battles looming in Europe and Asia. Roosevelts third term debate, debt, labor policy and social security set to unfold. Japan China ties, Soviet moves, and war news mix with boxing and sports as Byrd aims for Arctic feats. Washington Court House note ends item.
A 1930s swing decline gave way to a revival of classical music in America. Radio and phonograph demand surged as talking machines modernized. NBC and CBS broadcasts popularized grand opera and symphonies, with European concerts contributing to the NBC lineup and stations expanding classical airings.
New York reports a square shaped Ver mouth glass designed by speedboat champ Count Theo Rossi for serving vermouth straight. Vermouth, long popular as a before dinner drink in Europe and South America, has surged in the United States with imports up 930 percent, signaling a trend toward moderation in drinking.
Protect the root zone with generous mulch of leaves or litter and keep the soil moist before freeze. In exposed positions, support young trees with guy wires for the first year. The evergreen trunk is less exposed than a deciduous tree and does not require wrapping.
A collage of profiles on Joseph Caillaux and Wayne C. Taylor, contrasting Caillaux’s seasoned French finance leadership with the Hull House era reformer lineage and Taylor’s pivot to economic policy under Roosevelt. The piece touches on war, exile, and economic policy debates spanning France, the United States, and Cuba, linking finance, reform, and governance.
Describes a slim youthful dress pattern with fabrics like faille maire crepe and velveteen. Recommends for beginners with a step by step sew chart. Pattern No 8576 covers sizes 12 through 40 and lists material yardage and trim needs. Send 15 cents for pattern to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept Room 1324 Chicago Ill.
A quirk packed roundup notes stray ideas from air raid era Britain with ground visible tech, Geneva street cars turned into moving eateries, marital trends show widowed men marry spinster partners, navies deploy directed torpedoes that zig and strike early, and California redwoods said to defy natural death.
The list asks about Roman numerals, tax, who cut the Gordian Knot, the War of 1812 known as Mr Madison's war, the middle verse of the Bible, the most memorialized woman, fastest growing population race, nocturnal plant growth, correct quotation of Far from the maddening crowd, and the share of the world governed by monarchs.
Selections discuss demographic doubling times for white, yellow brown and black populations, plants growing more at night, a Gray’s Elegy line, and a note that despite postwar governance changes, 800 million people or 40 percent of the global population remain under monarchic rule.
The list notes Answers 1 DC 2 with salary remark and other income as not. It cites Alexander the Great and the War of 1812. It references the eighth verse of Psalm 118 and mentions Joan of Arc as a named figure.
The piece explains how many food and item names mislead about origin and nature. It cites Dutch news frogs Bombay duck Brussels sprouts Jerusalem artichokes and Jordan almonds as examples of misnomers, noting etymology often diverges from geography or flavor.
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