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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1944
Page
6
A Los Angeles woman recounts how a well meaning friend named Vera influenced her to divorce, revealing money mismanagement, resentments, and the collapse of happiness. She laments lost time with her children as her former husband remarries and moves on with custody under their divorce agreement.
Miss Norris recounts how a busybody elder woman, a friend of the mother, urged a wife to divorce after constant criticism of the husband and financial strain. The wife cites lifelong unhappiness and regret, saying the decision harmed her children and home.
The speaker urges the reader, after a self described past mistake, to engage in hard necessary activity and service. Emphasizes war effort, home front work with sons, and communal service as paths to healing and a thriving future. Warns that outside interference harms marriage, but stresses hopeful plans and civic duty for a meaningful life ahead.
A fragmentary reminiscence quotes Churchill and FDR during a late night White House meeting. A young War Department officer delivers confidential war news to the President and Prime Minister then faces a humorous rebuke. Other anecdotes span Gurkha parachutes, an Indian chief, and backstage theater memories with John Barrymore and Jane Cowl.
Women in war plants bring postwar gains such as better lighting heating sanitary conditions safer workspaces improved housekeeping and enhanced material handling. The National Metal Trades Association cites expected lasting improvements as by products of female employment in wartime production.
A bridal feature extols a June wedding, urging beauty and gaiety with a delicate angel food cake and fresh strawberry icing. It provides detailed recipes for Bride's Shower cakes and a wedding cake, plus menus, a buffet breakfast, and a meat roasting chart request from Miss van Chambery.
Westurn confers that Roosevelt may offer Wallace as running mate to placate CIO influence. The piece traces CIO spending and polling among Democrats, noting Rayburn and Barkley as preferred leaders, while Wallace stands as a pivot for labor votes and party strategy amid near-term bids and silent lobbying.
A magazine excerpt notes a curtain revival with formal swags cascades and jabots suited to Victorian furnishings. It explains separate end jabots center swag measurements bias cut valance ends and pleating methods with diagram guidance and a series of modern adaptations. Books offered at 15 cents each.
The article describes wedding decor and seating plans with the bride as the focal point. It notes white flowers and linens for the repast, a central wedding cake as the main decoration, and the bride and groom seated together at the head of the table during the family breakfast.
Major league umpires work in trios and switch positions across games so one may serve as umpire in chief for the day. The umpire in chief has the authority to reverse the calls of his colleagues during that contest.
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