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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1944
Page
6
An old paint brush helps clean hard to reach corners with soapy water. Glycerine in rinsing water restores woolens. Hang brooms by the handle to reduce wear and rinse weekly in hot soap. Add brown sugar when cooking Ilma beans and after turning ham to add personality.
Old favorites in wartime roles please family with apple cheese pie and One-Egg Chocolate Cake amid baking tips. The text offers simple steps, ingredients, and warmth from home kitchens, highlighting aromas, sharing, and practical guidance for pie crusts and cakes.
Lynn Chambers shares recipes and kitchen hints for apple muffins with bran and a coffee cake style bread, including yeast dough, currants, and spices. The page also features a religious lesson on Jesus crucified, with reflections on the cross, salvation, and the veiled temple as a symbol of grace.
Lyan advises berries and fruits stay fresh days longer in the refrigerator when spread on parchment covered platters. Strong flavors require careful wrapping to avoid tainting foods like chocolate pudding or beef. A dash of ginger can enhance chocolate icing, and leftover pimiento should be kept in a glass jar with paraffin cover.
The article describes the extensive process of converting jungles into banana farms. It covers surveys, transport links, drainage, ports, buildings, sanitation, and public works, then planting practices, weed and litter removal, and ongoing cultivation. It notes wage standards and the need to protect new plantings from fungi.
The city and the Indianapolis School Board each contribute 25000 to subsidize the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra this year. From four concerts $3300 was earned with a net city income of 1200. Eight public concerts may generate at least 10000 annually for the city, while eight free school programs yield no return to the school district.
In the United States a sandless optical glass made without traditional sand uses boric acid zinc oxide and either aluminum or beryllium oxide with cadmium oxide as a substitute for zinc. It has a high index of refraction and reduced color dispersion, enabling lenses for scientific instruments and spectacle lenses for severe visual defects. It requires less curvature, potentially thickening lighter, thinner lenses.
A chimney that is too warm to hold a hand against is a structural fire hazard and should be repaired or rebuilt immediately. The safe minimum wall thickness: four inches for brick or reinforced concrete, eight inches for hollow tile, and twelve inches for stone.
In 1943 war surgery centered on infected wounds and shock. Sulfonamides were given orally and applied to wounds to cut infection, reducing mortality to under 3 percent and often under 1 percent, versus 7 to 10 percent in earlier wars. Plasma administration emerged as key in treating shock while heat was abandoned in favor of a simple blanket. Nutrition shifts emphasized minerals and amino acids with eight essential amino acids identified for health: isoleucine leucine lysine methionine threonine valine phenylalanine and tryptophan.
Banana dehydration in Middle America could yield extra food for world postwar needs. Donald Fy. Othmer of Brooklyn’s Polytechnic Institute reports to the Inter-American Development Commission that wasted bananas in Honduras and Brazil are being dried into powder or pulped and sprayed. He notes drying removes 75 percent of water, with green starch converting to sugar during processing.
Blurred sight and double vision arise from alcohols action paralyzing the eye muscles. Ciliary muscles falter before legs, affecting near and far vision. Attention declines, and the toast Here’s mud in your eye echoes this effect.
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