Practical bridal showers for wartime brides and gifts
Wartime brides favor simple, portable showers with practical gifts. Ideas include personal showers with lingerie, Kitchen Gadget showers gifting compact utensils and nesting glassware, Sewing showers with bright thread spools, and Recipe showers compiling popular recipes. The piece offers menus, centerpiece ideas, and a sample ice cream and asparagus loaf menu, plus a reader query to Miss Lynn Chambers at Western Newspaper Union.
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Lynn Chambers
Western Newspaper Union
South Desplaines Street
Chicago
Ilinois
Three Distinguished Citizens Chosen for Martindale
Martindale elects a three member committee to appoint its first Distinguished Citizens. After heated town hall anticipation, Albert Burns, Philip Nast and Joseph Hanlon are named to select three who will become role models for the town and inspire its youth.
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Harvey Cluett
Martindale
First Selectman
Cluett
First
Albert Burns
Philip Nast
Joseph Hanlon
Perley
Martin Blake
Suncook Valley
Elias Whipple
Suncook Hotel
Jim Darrow
Alex Strout
Horace Latimer
Melvin Cross
Martirslate
Blake
Latimer
Whipple
Cross
Darrow
Committee of Three
Town Hall
Nast
Selectman
When a Reporter Fights Dirty Elements in Town
A collage of historical anecdotes on journalists facing danger for exposing crime and extremism. It cites Donald R. Mellett of Canton Daily News murdered by gangsters, George Dale's clash with Klan violence, and reports of courage from the Butte Daily Bulletin.
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Aimee
Donald R. Mellett
Canton (Ohio
Daily News
George Dale
Muncie Post-Democrat
State Supreme Court
Dale
Butte
Montana
Daily Bulletin
Lynn Says The Score Card Addresses Food Supplies
The Score Card reports egg production raised 15 to 20 percent to meet national and allied needs, ensuring shortages do not occur. Tea will be rationed at 50 percent to safeguard summer use, with eight months of supply in country. War Production Board allocates tin to the pineapple industry and Hawaii production is maximized, though about 26 percent of the pack is reserved for government purchase.
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India
Ceylon
War Production Board
Hawaii
Wherein the Ancestors Of Lemurs Are Revived
A compact evolutionary chain traces lemur ancestry from insect eating ancestors to shrews, then primitive mammal branches, egg laying reptiles, amphibians, fish, jawless fish, and primitive bilateral animals, ending with colonial protozoa origins in a radially symmetric, Hydra like ancestor.
Joseph Pulitzer Guided The New York World Editor
Barry Faris of INS urged reporters not to pigeonhole stories and compared stories to vegetables. Blind yet observant, he had his secretary review every item in a newspaper to see page location, space, headlines, cross-heads, boxes, and illustrations guiding Joseph Pulitzer and the New York World for many years.
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Hitler
America
Germany
Ivy Lee
Barry Faris
INS
Joseph Pulitzer
The
N. Y. World
Statement on danger and shifting courage from Smoliett
A quotation notes that a man's view of danger changes with time and mood, driven by an irregular tide of animal spirits and motives he dares not reveal.
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Smoliett
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Ezra Atkins
Harkins
Norcross
Clayton Jones
Slaterville
Bobby
John Doe
Dracut
Joshua Crandall
Slatersville
Boston
Churchill
Adolf
Berlin
Winston
Oliver Littleton
Donald Nelson
Quentin Reynolds
Burma
Byron Price
Malta
de Gaulle
Elliot Paul
Paris
Scott Feldman
Shubert
Lee Shubert
Joan Davis
Lupton Wilkinson
du Barry
Herald- Tribune
Laval & Co
Vichy
USA
China
Hull
Lavall
Vicky
U.S
Lynn
Otton
Ruth Wyeth Spears
Bedford Hills
New York
Sunkist
California Fruit Growers Exchange
Nietzsche
Cope
Uncle Sam
A Vet ST Mal
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