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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1939
Page
8
A morning ready dinner plan offers Pineapple Upside Down Loaf Tomatoes Stuffed With Macaroni Buttered Fresh Peas Minted Pear Salad Hot Biscuits and Strawberry Fluff Biscuits. Recipes include Pineapple Upside Down Ham Loaf and Minted Pear Salad with gelatin, plus a dessert idea and a note about Eleanor Howe's "Household Hints" book.
In 1939 pure cellulose curtains imitate rare chintzes and linens, offering inexpensive redecorating. The cost is so low that an entire house can be redraped for under one dollar, and replacements are affordable when soiled. These finished, hang-ready drapes resemble vellum and percale, with pliable, permanent drape and hand. Available in many patterns and sunfast colors, they come with matching tie backs in three lengths.
Summer guests will enjoy a well styled room with a bed, chest of drawers, vanity, lamp and table. A chaise longue, books, and magazines provide comforts between activities while a good mattress and springs remain essential. Fireplace logs, dry and uniform, burn four hours with colored flames and fit in a closet.
A suggestion to banish nuisance flies from outdoor dining areas by installing screen bags or screens, enabling seating with windows on three sides while keeping insects out and maintaining sanitary conditions.
Paraffin used for sealing jellies should be kept smoking hot as it sterilizes while sealing. Tilt the glass so the melted paraffin forms a seal around the sides and covers the top.
Edith, escaping a messy engagement, stays with Baldy in a lively home. They read a confession from Del about marrying another, sparking frank talk, lingering feelings, and plans to reveal Edith’s whereabouts to her uncle Fred. The pair share honesty, flirtation, and a resolve for future confidences.
Jane Barnes learns Edith Towne vanished on her wedding day to Delafield Simms. Baldy Barnes finds a diamond ring inscribed Del to Edith Forever, linking Edith to Delafield. Frederick Towne, powerful uncle, judges the pair while Evans Follette, guided by his mother and Jane, grows hopeful amid strain and jealousy.
A Hamilton Bermuda correspondent explains Bermuda’s monetary history shown on back of coins and in local shops. Highlights include hog money of 1615, ship pennies of 1793, tobacco as legal tender for decades, and diverse currencies from silver to pepper corn used in exchanges and taxation.
A two mile long chimney to be seen in South Wales climbs a mountainside from a copper mine. It was built to carry away poisonous smelting fumes that harmed crops, and a full sized stream passes through part of it.
The questions cover reasons behind the Speaker of the House title, the Land of Cakes country, the Charter Oak trunk size, the world’s oldest parliament, a word for annoyance in noise, and the British empire’s share of habitable land. Includes six trivia prompts.
The fragment notes origins of the name Scotland from oatmeal cakes, a British parliament influence, and records a Hartford wind event of 1856 with a claimed thousand year age. It mentions the Icelandic Althing’s age marked by a 1930 anniversary and defines dysacousia as discomfort from noise.
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