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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1945
Page
4
A comic sketch shows Joe viewing a sample postwar automobile. It jokes about innovations like a working windshield wiper, front redesigns, a postwar bumper, and the idea of rear seat engines, noting humor in the era's automotive fantasies and misfires.
The piece notes high prices for yearling racehorses at summer dispersal sales averaging around 7000 dollars with some selling for 30000 or more, recalls a Saratoga era story of low bids, and ends with humorous radio program observations and a scientist predicting tiny atomic engines for cars alongside lighthearted verses.
A quiz list asks ten questions from geography, history, and science. Answers include The Western Reserve in Ohio, federal price-setting for gold, facing south at the North Pole, the proverb completion Po reach the bottom, US acquisition of Florida by purchase from Spain, the Manx breed cats, Buffalo Bill as scout and Pony Express rider, the term hegemony linked to a statesman, the Hang Together quotes by Hancock and Franklin, and hydrogen as the common element in acids.
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