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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1939
Page
6
Winter heat fades and summer meals turn light. A practical guide shares crisp salad ideas with textures, colors, and cooling dressings. Recipes include Festive Potato Salad, Crab Salad, Frozen Tomato Salad, Marshmallow Mint Salad, and a Lamb salad with mint and peas, plus a note about Eleanor Howe's new cookbook Feed ing Father.
French provincial furniture returns with a long lasting appeal. It blends well with early American styles and offers beachwood and cherry chairs, charming upholstered pieces, tiered tables, sunken plant receptacles, and small occasional items suitable for tea or coffee service.
This collage of portraits recalls midshipman David Stockton McDougal saving a man overboard from the sloop Natchez at Pensacola while fending off sharks, Commander McDougal’s later naval duel with Japanese vessels at Shimoseki, and the famed snake-capturing promoter Frank Buck. It also salutes Joshua Norton, 1819 1880, the self styled Emperor of the United States who roamed San Francisco for 22 years until his death.
Lawrence Tibbetts, the first American to gain fame without European training, grew up in California amid hardship after a bandit killed his uncle and father. He trained locally, found success in Los Angeles, and later impressed royalty at the White House.
A reader describes a straightforward dav enport frame project using three wooden boxes bolted together. The center box houses an inner spring mattress. cushions can be made by padding bound newspaper sheets with cotton and covered in heavy plain cotton. Also notes sale prices for Sewing for the Home Decorator and Gifts Novelties and Embroideries books with attached leaflets.
Quote from Thomas E. Dewey praising clean government as organized crime is driven from power. He notes sponsors exposed and removed from influence, with the public learning to reject furtive alliances between crime and politics.
A reflective line from Henry Van Dyke on humble lives facing odds. He suggests ordinary existence hides unexpected joys and discoveries for those who persevere. The quote emphasizes resilience, virtue, and quiet strength in daily struggles.
A list of ten trivia prompts covering topics from Holy Grail and fiscal year to aviation rights and space motion. Includes questions about dirigibles landing priority, suction cups on legs, differences among chuckle giggle and laugh, why ducks stay dry, bale weight of cotton, and buffalo versus bison distinctions.
A brief note describes the platter or cup said to have been used by Christ at the Last Supper, known in legend as a sacred artifact linked to the events of Holy Week and the gathering of disciples.
A curious compilation notes that a year begins on a designated date for finance while defining dirigible as capable of being directed, and right of way for descending planes. It claims motion may be universal but not yet found, and distinguishes chuckle giggle and laugh. It cites oil in feathers, a 480 pound bale of cotton, and explains Buffalo as a general term for wild oxen with the American buffalo being a true bison.
A collection of quips and aphorisms on American self-perception, work, wealth, and social status. It notes that comfort and riches breed skepticism, while ingenuity, editors, and public opinion shape judgment and manners.
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