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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1942
Page
2
A town newspaper item covers local postage rates in Kossuth County and Titonka trade area, subscription rules, and a broad wartime editorial reflecting on defense versus offense. It discusses Singapore, the Axis, Allied strategy, and fears for Europe, with a brief note on a Lisbon cockatoo named Cuckoo.
The piece argues the war’s outcome favors aggressors who advance on the enemy. It cites Hitler’s risks as superior to defensive bets by France Maginot Line and Britain blockade hopes. It notes Russia’s Stalin Line failed, while Paris and London faced dire consequences.
A collage of light vignettes and quips on daily life and humor. It includes a child listing pleasures, jokes about housekeeping, a light ad line, and snippets on manners and chicken lore, all in witty, mixed prose.
Mis uth Seaton Hicks, home demonstration agent, urges farm women to streamline housekeeping now to free time for wartime tasks this summer. A family council should assign duties, reduce travel in the kitchen, and optimize equipment placement to save minutes and hours daily. Improve storage and repair idle gear to gain long term savings.
Robert Bell of Clovis challenged corn size proving the ears exceed a foot. Buena Vista county agent R. J. Coverdale sent in ears measuring 13 1/2 inches each, securing a $100 bet and ending the dispute at the Topic office.
A four generations portrait includes Mrs. L. W. Kunz and Mrs. Martha Mienow along with Mrs. Kunz’s daughter and granddaughter. The image later appeared in the Mapleton Enterprise.
Weekly fish meals get variety with a whole pickerel or whitefish baked whole. Learn stuffing, butter onion filling, and a lemon butter sauce to pair with a lean or fatty fish, plus baking times and a cloth lift tip.
A brief cooking note detailing creaming butter with seasonings and salt, then spreading on fish just before serving. The fragment implies a simple prep step to enhance flavor before serving.
During early spring when eggs are plentiful and affordable, prepare emuty eggs on enriched toast. Beat egg whites stiff with salt, mound on toast, place a yolk center, top with butter, salt, and pepper. Broil or bake until whites brown lightly and yolks set.
Iowa State extension entomologist Marald Gunderson warns insecticide supplies may be tight at peak season. Recommending calcium arsenate sulfur dust for potato beetles leaf hoppers and earworm, Derris dust for cucumbers melons squash beans tomatoes and ground cherries, plus copper oxychloride and rotenone products. He advises applying to leaf undersides with a hand duster and notes use of derris dust for ants fleas and general garden pests.
Dick Winders of Harlan was hurt while working on a car engine. He caught a finger in the running motor and stopped it after about an hour. The finger was amputated later.
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