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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1942
Page
6
A period menu guide for winter gatherings presents broiled wienies with cheese and hot potato salad, baked spaghetti with cheese and sauce, tamale pie, bean and sausage bake, and versatile eggs and omelets. Also includes peach crisp pudding and a tomato soup sauce with olives, recipes noting servings and cooking steps. Western Newspaper Union release.
Brenda Foster, a vivid young admirer of trick ending writers, persuades Elliott Rice with her story ideas during a Mountain View Country Club visit. The exhausted author later replies with a generous three figure check, praising her enthusiasm and inviting future contact.
Simple, tasty ideas include baked beans with brown bread around the bean pot, cream cheese sandwiches, and canned beans with sliced ham. Toasted buns with ham or cheeseburgers please, while toasted English muffins with eggs and ham offer another popular option.
A Detroit designer predicts plastics will rise from 2 percent of 1942 car components to dominate. Plastic coatings appear on steering wheels dashboards and grilles with 40 percent of instrument panels now plastic. The color range remains broad with durable pigment potential, first large use likely on the car top for clear visibility and UV protection.
Reader letter suggests theater orchestras lower the key of The Star Spangled Banner from E flat to G so the average audience member can sing along. The note points out the anthem’s wide vocal range makes it hard for untrained voices and cites a recent Roxy performance as an example.
In a wartime column the reader is teased with a riddle about a German freighter the Odenwald and a breezy American reply that used a wrong Broadway slang word. The piece also riffs on urban sights gossip and a Berlin desk rumor about Hitler, ending with a jab at his destruction of churches.
A fabric pattern notice describes lapels framing the neckline and side sashes for a neat waist trim. Pattern No 80743 offers sizes 32 to 46 with size 34 needing 454 yards of 35 inch material and 2 yards incrac. Orders should be sent to the given address.
Palm trees show minimal trunk thickening once they reach about eight feet in height, even as they continue to grow taller beyond a hundred feet. This growth characteristic highlights how diameter remains constrained while height increases.
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