10 Mar 1932
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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1932
Page
1
A playful verse asks what a centipede would do with hundred legs and how a child would cope with many feet. The speaker frets over shoes, balance, and the idea of one hundred feet at once amid humorous rhymes and a childlike wonder.
The Kitchen Cabinet suggests year round sandwiches with coffee, favoring warm weather outdoor servings. Recipes include creamy cheese paste with bacon on bread toast, hot bacon with chicken and mustard, welsh rarebit with a poached egg, and sardine seasonings for varied fillings.
A fragmented civic era recipe and homecraft note describes onion pepper tomato stew passed through a sieve and chilled, then mixed with mayonnaise for Russian dressing. It also advises saving old rags, boiling and ironing them for emergencies, and using a lit electric flashlight in stockings to reveal threads and aid mending.
A collage of social gossip and oddities from the city scene including a famed opera singer and wealthy husband’s divorce, a penguin sighting outside a doctor’s home, taxi woes, a joke on boxing champ Schmeling, magician Cordini’s act, Kelland Gandhi jokes, and Tibet travel notes, all woven with brief cultural vignettes and a Desert Walkers shoe mention.
A recipe snippet describes serving hot sandwiches on buttered toast with anchovies or chicken spread, accompanied by curly lettuce and roquefort dressing. It includes a cheese-filled tomato soup variation with grated cheese and a beaten egg, cooled before use.
In Johannesburg a vast gold mine complex extends with more than 4000 miles of shafts streets and avenues beneath the city. The report notes the enormity of the Witwatersrand mine system and its intricate underground layout.
In Georgia in 1991 Mrs T Humphries lacked a mule and hitched up her friend’s husband to a plow to keep the farm running. A field agent from the Department of Agriculture confirmed the tale as true, noting the event was not fiction.
A fragmented note explains the saying dead as a herring from fishing lore, noting herrings die instantly out of water. It states few fishers see a herring alive after capture and mentions ancient cosmetic use in China and Beynu.
Friedrichshafen based airliner ZR 120 under construction with over 600000 cubic feet of helium. It costs more than 3 million dollars and will be the most luxurious airship yet built, carrying 62 passengers and eight tons of items. Decks A and B feature 26 cabins, a promenade, dining room, parlor and library with an electric kitchen for four course meals.
A brief line of dialogue shows confusion over a supposed secret. The speaker asks if the information is truly secret, while another character questions the meaning of the remark and reveals embarrassment.
Camp Bulls tests on antiaircraft guns show automatic rifles pose a threat to aircraft. Third brigade troops fired at a towed target the size of a fuselage, with 8.61 hits per 100 rounds for automatic rifles, 2.73 for rifle arcs, and 1.96 for machine guns. At 1000 rounds, 82 hits could occur in a sudden air attack. Targets towed at 400 to 600 feet, 100 miles per hour.
A tear gas gun discharged in a El Paso cafe by Deputy Constable Her menegado Garcia, causing customers to cry and causing shock. Garcia blamed a slipped trigger catch and said he did not want to carry the weapon. Local witnesses described scattered panic and medical aid.
Advertising copy urges Castoria as a pure vegetable remedy for children's ailments. It claims Castoria eases discomfort from upset bowels, promotes gentler bowel action, and restores restful sleep for fretful, feverish children with no harsh drugs. Contains brand reassurance.
A humorous local note from the Kansas City Star recounts Paris wooing Helen before Greece sails to Troy. Paris proposes flight to Troy but Helen frets about finding a barber in Troy to shingle her hair, leading Paris to marry a mermaid in Atlantia as the Trojan wars fade away.
A motorcyclist near Weymouth England heard a voice from a ditch asking for help with knee joints. He found a former soldier who explained his artificial legs had failed after sleeping in the rain and could not work properly.
A saying notes that true wisdom lies in restraint and silence. It argues little needs to be spoken and that brevity can reflect depth. The aphorism reflects a timeless view on thoughtful communication and discretion.
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