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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1937
Page
3
A jumble of household notes covers shoe care advising air circulation, simple kitchen recipes like stew with neck lamb and macaroni, plus tips on removing blueing, serving omelets, saving table surfaces, and whipping cream. It also details sealing fish, ox tail pie preparation, and a DIY darning ball from an old electric bulb.
Howland Island, a treeless sandpit two miles long and 1800 miles from Honolulu, was uninhabited until January 1935 when the U S Department of Commerce began colonization alongside Baker and Jarvis islands. Both the United States and Great Britain claimed concessions, but possession favored the first to colonize. Hawaiian schoolboys are paid to relay meteorological observations to uphold U S title, noting warm equable climate and scant rainfall. The three isles total about three square miles.
British and Japanese tensions rise as Shanghai shelling escalates. Five British soldiers killed, others wounded, amid disputes over access on Soochow creek and aid to Chinese fleeing a warehouse fire. The nine power treaty talks in Brussels loom while Morocco unrest spreads.
Plans for the Duke and Duchess of Windsor's American visit progress with attorney George Link stating a philanthropic foundation may form to study industrial living conditions, funded by leading industrialists. The duke insists on independent, non political travel aims and hopes private contributions will aid global problems.
In plowing contests at Big Rock Lily Lake Troy and Wheatland Illinois 101 of 108 contestants used pneumatic tires. Paul Stiefbold on an Allis Chalmers led in two events and placed high overall with 356 out of 400 points plus 21 points in a single contest. Carl Shoger followed with one first and two seconds on an International Harvester F 20 using Firestone Ground Grip tires. Clarence Shoger son of Carl won all four boys and men meets on a McCormick Deering with Ground Grip tires.
Instructional note on furnace dampers says keep the Turn Damper fixed once set to avoid heat loss. Use Ashpit and Check Dampers to adjust daily burn, changing only at very cold or very mild season starts. Do not adjust the Turn Damper regularly to prevent fuel waste.
A list of seven quiz items covers beauty words, presidential authority, world travel effects on date lines, Kilkenny cats legend, and China’s population. It includes left versus right politics, US and UK billion definitions, and sample answers noting governors hold power, traveling west gains a day, and a rough China population of about 474.8 million.
The piece argues that joy in life comes from doing tasks well and striving for perfection. It asserts pride in complete, well rounded work and contrasts it with the superficial, slipshod approach, claiming conscientiousness turns work into art.
A brief fragment contemplates how meaning arises in action rather than in verbose philosophy. It hints at tension between expressiveness and the concrete doing of thought through action.
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