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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1944
Page
3
Guidance urges civilians to self treat after gas exposure. Stay calm, seek shelter indoors, seal entrances, and move to upper floors. Remove outer clothing, shower with soap and warm water, and wash eyes with water or weak soda. If coughing or breathing worsens, summon a physician.
A guide to growing house plants advises washing leaves to remove dust so light and air reach the pores. Some plants with fuzzy leaves like Saint Paulia and primroses should be brushed rather than watered. Avoid drafts and overwatering, but keep air moist with vapor pans, moist peat, or gravel trays with water below the pots.
To extend the harvest, some snap beans may be left to ripen for dry beans. Old cucumbers become pickles, late tomatoes yield fried green fruit, and vegetables may be dried or salted instead of canned. Corn, beans, cabbage, onions, and turnips salt well. dry forms of corn and beans provide winter variety with distinct flavors.
In Nicaragua, rubber and mahogany drive the economy with over 3000 workers collecting wild rubber. Much of the timber and rubber come from Coco river lowland jungles in the northeast. The region, hit by a 1941 hurricane and banana blight, suffered long poverty. wartime loss of steamship aid halted banana shipments.
On the Bonanza set, a tense exchange reveals a cast member declaring plans to divorce while claiming his wife has not spoken to him for six months. A colleague quips about finding another wife, ending the moment with a cautious, humorous note.
A cryptic exchange frames a riddle about a man who drives a car, with a pedestrian named Dad provoking a quip on proximity and perception in a quirky, narrated dialogue.
A century ago canals aroused rivalry with railroads starting in 1828 with Adams ground breaking the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and Carrollton's Baltimore and Ohio railroad. The clash peaked in the 1850s, waned as rail lines spread, revived in 1917 for war needs, then faded with road transport rise. World War II era brings renewed canal life amid troop and materiel movement and gas shortages affecting motor travel.
King George's Sandringham estate in Norfolk converted most of its grounds into farmland. The golf course became oats, lawns grew rye, and beds produced beets and parsnips. Across 1,433 acres farmed, 977 under plow, with 539 added after the war began. Reclaimed marshes cover 476 acres now growing potatoes, peas, beans, mustard and wheat.
An impartial Bureau of Labor Statistics review shows average weekly wages in U S manufacturing rose 62.4 percent from August 1939 to June 1943 while living costs rose under 27 percent, meaning wage gains outpaced living costs by about three to one. Over the 1941 43 period earnings climbed 54 percent from 28.08 to 43.35 weekly, with hours rising 11.4 percent. Creole term explanations trace origins in 19th century usage across Louisiana Mexico and Alaska, correcting common misbeliefs about mixed race connotations.
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