18 Feb 1932
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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1932
Page
1
A reader column notes ovens should not be opened early when baking cakes especially sponge cakes. Tips include serving apple butter with muffins hot rolls or biscuits. Evergreens should be planted in mid October and kept well watered until freezing.
The article describes a substantial sandwich lineup including chicken on toast with tomato and jam, tuna or crab with lemon and Tabasco, and creamed chicken on baking powder biscuits. It notes baked biscuits yield good sandwich bases and highlights a hard cooked egg and chicken fiver mix with mayonnaise and mustard as another option.
Betty and Bobby gather seals and stamps of all colors for handmade crafts. They reuse jars, boxes, and a discarded marshmallow tin to craft items for their mother. The shown projects include a photograph frame a vase a lamp shade and a blotter pad crafted from found materials with simple assembly directions.
The passage describes creating decorative items from a frame with a central cutout for viewing a picture, a Bon-bon Box made from an empty marshmallow or tin with seals, copyright nets forming pockets for blotters, and a Pencil Box crafted from a wooden box with decorative scales and a name like WING Garvin.
A fragmented 1933 passage describes hot and open sandwiches with whole wheat bread, butter, toasted sides, cheese, bacon curls, and a variety of fillings. It lists vegetable flecks, Naples and gelatine toppings, chopped nuts, peppers, peas, and many seasonings, including bottled sauces, olives, capers, and herbs, with a final reference to the Western Newspaper Union.
Jean Newton explains the origin of the phrase Men In High Places. The term once referred to hilltop shrines where people worshiped different gods. The article traces how the concept shifted from sacred high sites to denote powerful figures in modern speech.
A brief reflection on individuals who reject constant pursuit of success as a treadmill like existence. The piece contrasts ambition with contentment and questions the value of endless striving.
A Grand Central station master, also owner of a gas and oil business on the Boston Post Road, reports dire trade. Motorists pull in to fill up but now buy only enough to get home. He enforces cash payments, with a few exceptions for college-age lookalikes who often settle debts later. Some drivers try to dodge by offering excuses or leaving a spare tire. When money is scarce, police box calls returns and repayment is often secured.
A fragmentary column recounts experiences of Walter Trumbull and Prank Trumbull in Europe and the United States, noting Depression cycles and a Cuba scene where Evelyn Kelly sways a merchandising dispute affecting Miss Morgan. It adds a New York taxi-ride quirk about colorful stall boys and a vague 988 Bell Syndicate credit.
The article notes New York levying a two dollar fine for dripping taps saving 40 million gallons in two years. It cites Dr Foley of Indiana University estimating locomotives waste over two million tons of coal yearly to generate steam, suggesting whistles be changed to save fuel, and that a third of cider insel?ers keep 60 to 70 percent heat, illustrating broader waste concerns.
Island Bird Sanctuary St. Kilda, seven miles in circumference off the outer Hebrides, has been sold by Sir Reginald MacLeod to a hidden-identity ornithologist. The buyer aims to keep the island in its natural state as an ocean sanctuary for migratory seabirds. Tourists may land to visit the vast aviary, but no buildings will be erected.
A Hollywood Daily Citizen quip recalls Professor Einstein arguing with a German streetcar conductor over correct change. The conductor corrects Einstein, who apologizes, with a humorous line about arithmetic. The piece ends with a wry remark on aging and dress.
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