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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1940
Page
6
The guide offers simple party favors and recipes to impress teens with refined treats. It suggests decaffeinated coffee with sticks of cinnamon, sandwich platters, petit four style cakes, rolled cheese sandwiches, orange muffins, cornucopia sandwiches, and Fort Atkinson ginger creams, plus a promise of a future column with menus and tested recipes.
Sheila Davenport outwits Mrs Netherby in a high society love triangle. Mrs Netherby offers money to secure Roderick, but Sheila insists the husband be told, leading to a staged break and a cold resignation from both spouses as a car ride ends with quiet tears.
A booklet titled Easy Entertaining by Eleanor Howe promises menus and tested recipes for teen age parties and varied entertaining. It suggests picnic lunches beach parties and both formal and informal gatherings with plans and tips. Send 10 cents to Easy Entertaining care Eleanor Howe 919 North Michigan Avenue Chicago.
The federal dairy bureau introduces a one year old method to can sliced Swiss cheese for ready to serve use. Cheese is cut into leaves wrapped and canned at the factory, reducing waste and aiding restaurant service. Canned cheese stays firm for weeks, with several Ohio firms already adopting canning and more expected.
Engineers at Columbia School of Engineering use a spinning merry go round to simulate stresses on bridges and tall buildings. Centrifugal forces reach up to 2000 times gravity to mimic real-world load conditions.
A two story high window, 200 feet long, lights the interior of Rockefeller Center’s new giant parking garage in New York. The window uses a pattern glass named louvrex and would require two window washers a week to clean it.
Texas has produced 6,118,000,000 barrels of oil since 1889. The state’s remaining reserve is about 9,500,000,000 barrels, roughly half of the national total.
Mrs Walter Houston of Casper Wyoming says a dozen eggs she bought recently all contained double yolks. She believes she got her money's worth from the unusual purchase highlighting the quirky find.
Ruth Wyeth Spears describes transforming a yard with a blue pipe frame shelter and green white striped awning fabric. Mr Newhouse crafted the frame from second hand pipe, finished in blue, with loops and heavy tape fastenings. The article also promotes Mrs Spears Sewing Book No 1 offering home decor patterns and sewing instructions.
Community notice requests readers in Bedford Hills New York to enclose 10 cents for Book No 1 and provide their name and address for processing. The terse appeal seeks mailed responses and basic contact information from interested individuals.
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