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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1938
Page
8
A school teacher endorses a sewing book and offers a free-hand embroidery design for a bed jacket border. She explains color and stitch ideas including rose tones, turquoise, and apple green, with ruler guides and dots for spacing. Mrs Spears promotes Book 2 and Book 1 SEWING for the Home Decorator, asking 25 cents per book and listing 210 S Desplaines St Chicago IL as the address.
A compact history tracing the auto’s rise from early German 1885 experiments to mass production by 1900, notes advances like front doors and windshields in 1910, inflation boosts in 1914, 1922 innovations, and the industry surpassing billion and five billion dollar marks by wartime and 1929, highlighting the車 industry as a hallmark of American engineering.
A local recipe feature presents a banana cake method with oleo and sour milk margarine, sugar, salt, soda, eggs, baking powder, and cake flour. Bananas and nuts are folded in, whites beaten separately, then baked slowly in loaf or layer pans and iced.
An advertisement promotes Phillips' Milk of Magnesia as a bedtime remedy for upset stomach from overindulgence. It advises taking two tablespoons in water at night, then two more with orange juice in the morning to restore normal feeling. It emphasizes asking for Phillips' Milk of Magnesia.
Elmer F. Andrews resigns from a high wage, shorter hours job to lead New York state as industrial commissioner with a $10,000 salary. The 48-year-old engineer, a former aide to Frances Perkins, brings long experience in wage studies, labor advisory roles, and construction work, with a record of detachment rather than confrontation. He previously spent five years in the office and now assumes broader responsibilities amid ongoing wage and hour changes.
A mother questions nutrition science as she notices her son Johnny, a dirty, sneezing schoolchild, repeatedly catches colds despite eating milk eggs vegetables and fruits. The encounter highlights hygiene habits versus dietary knowledge.
A writer argues mothers must base feeding on latest nutritional science to build sturdy bodies and strong nerves. Unwashed hands risk introducing germs with every bite, potentially causing grave illness as most communicable disease deaths involve entry through mouth or nose.
An editorial urges daily personal hygiene for children, arguing soap and water are essential to prevent infections. It notes mothers often relax cleanliness once children start school and warns that school is not a substitute for parental vigilance in maintaining sanitary habits.
The text argues that sending a child to school increases a mother’s responsibilities for health habits and supervision. Daily contact with many youngsters from varied homes raises germ exposure and spread risk, requiring mothers to be more vigilant than before.
A simple nine inch block features a single large dog applique with ribbon or embroidery as a contrasting binding. The pattern includes pieces, cutting and finishing instructions, yardage chart, and corner triangles for a matching pillow. Send 15 cents to The Sewing Circle in New York for pattern 1846.
The noted Harvard naturalist Louis Agassiz, seized by a sudden scientific urge, refused a visitor’s bid for a lecture offering double the normal fee. He said he could not afford to waste his time on such paid distraction.
A 1931-34 column by Houston Goudiss urges mothers to enforce daily hygiene and manners to prevent illness. It covers bathing, clean clothing, hand washing before meals, regular teeth brushing, proper coughing etiquette, and avoiding hand to mouth contact. It also calls for soap and towels in schools and lists actions if school facilities are inadequate.
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