Soup as the main dish and a fish chowder delight
A food feature extols soup as essential and versatile for rationed meals. It offers recipes and guidance from classic chowder to cream of potato and onion and black bean soup. The piece highlights crackers, cheeses, and pantry-friendly ingredients, with tips from Lynn Chambers and Western Newspaper Union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lynn Chambers
Western Newspaper Union
South Desplaines Street
Chicago
Ilinois
Butter Blues Through War and Worry Past and Present
A nostalgic riff traces butter from everyday staple to wartime symbol. It jokes about price controls, OPA rules, and rationing while recalling postwar comfort and common family scenes. It blends cultural memory with sharp jab at bureaucracy and shortages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OPA
Federal Commissions
Global War Councils
Washington
Using Margarine and Spreads in Cooking
Eyan Says describes switching from butter to margarine for spreading and cooking. It advises selecting enriched margarines with guaranteed vitamin content, softening and coloring margarine before use, and using stretchers to extend butter. It suggests alternatives like shortenings, drippings, jams, honey, and mayonnaise when butter is scarce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eyan
Eisenhower in Sicily to oversee allied invasion progress
John Gunther Eisenhower in Sicily describes the 48 hour after landing, Luftwaffe activity, and German aviators rescued from a life raft. He portrays Eisenhower as a decisive, modest, highly capable coordinator who values Anglo American unity and close contact with Hewitt Patton and Canadian troops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Califor
Ashare
Sicily
Eisenhower
Louis
Mediterranean
Hewitt
Patton
Cunningham
Alexander
Tedder
Pitching leaders and wartime forecasts in 1943 season
The article surveys 20 game winners led by Spud Chandler Yankees 20-4 and Morton Cooper 21-8 with rivals like Rip Sewell and Dizzy Trout. It notes Wyatt’s injuries, Chandler’s nerves, Dean’s calm, rookies’ nerves, and looming wartime drafts shaping 1944 seasons across baseball and football.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spurgeon
Spud" Chandler
Yankees
Pirates
Dizzy Trout
Tigers
Elmer Riddle
Cincinnati
Whit Wyatt
Dodgers
Leo Durocher
Wyatt
Mort Cooper
Rip Sewell
Mort
Big Mort
Big Seassons
Shoun
Brazile
St. Louis
Murphy
Smith
Cleveland
Haefner
Washington
Uanier
Cardinals
Spud Chandler
Chandler
Spud
Bill Dickey
Bill Johnson
Dizzy
Ole Diz
Closet gifts to save space with unique pocket closet
A vintage note describes DIY closet accessories and patterns for useful gifts. It highlights a door pocket for special needs, a wall hanging laundry bag, shelf oil cloth covers, and a 1 by 22 inch shoot with step by step illustrations. Pattern No 256 offered.
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Lysa Chambers
FBI
Walter
Junior
Adolf Hitler
Hollywood
Samson
Iad
John Gunther
Montgomery
Tunisia
London
Philppines
MacArthur
United States
Europe
Ike
Third Army
San Antonio
Pearl Harbor
Eigenhower
Germany
Dizzy Dean
Ag Bertelli
Ruth Wyeth
Spears
Bedford Hills
New York
Izsecaere
Smith Bros
America
Otte
U.S
Off
Locke Stove Company
W. 11Th St
Kansas City
Mis
Dorothy Lamour
McKesson & Robbins
Bridgeport, Coon
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