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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1940
Page
3
A compact page of humorous exchanges features Spendthrift Little Sandy racing home after school behind a streetcar to save a nickel and a punchline about a taxi fare. A restaurant scene recalls a late menu, a patron, and a waiter. A veteran joke about varsity medicine and a quip on lasting relationships rounds out the column.
Cor respondents report a mock menu scene with Benito and Adolf debating soups, fish, meat, and Lobster while joking about lamb, tripe, and frogs legs. The piece blends satire on tyranny with playful banter and ends with a political jab and quirky lines about foreign leaders.
Ruth Wyeth Spears describes a daisy themed hot dish mat crafted from Army braid cotton. The design aims to be thick and sturdy like a rag rug, able to endure frequent scrubbing, with a novel gay look suitable as a Christmas gift or retail item.
The article describes making braided mats from cotton flannel or heavy cotton, with two inch wide strips for heavy fabrics and tighter braiding. Seaming with white cotton thread yields sturdy mats, including oval dish mats from two daisies. It notes hat dish mats from cable cord in SEWING and mentions Booklets 4, 2, and 3 containing 32 pages of illustrated directions for home gifts. Readers can order by sending 10c per copy.
A brief order note from Ruth Wyeth Spears of Bedford Hills New York inviting readers to enclose 10 cents for each hank ordered with name and address provided.
The Coast Line report notes that the continental United States plus territories have a general coastline of 16 900 land miles. Including inland shores reached by tides up to three miles inland increases the coastline to about 40 300 land miles, as stated by Pathfinder.
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