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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1943
Page
6
Practical guide urging balanced school lunches to provide a third of daily calories. Recommends prep spots, staples, varied fillings, moist breads, and waxed paper wrapping. Includes sandwich ideas, a Boston Brown Bread recipe, milk drinks, fruit desserts, and a marmalade bread pudding. Requests readers write for more help from Western Newspaper Union.
Practical guide to portable meals stressing sturdy lunch boxes over bags, enamel finish washing, waxed paper for freshness, vacuum flasks for hot or cold drinks, crackers with soup, and morale boosters like treats. Emphasizes cleanliness, crumb-free packing, and keeping fruit peeled and moist.
A wartime guide by Dr. Frank Roberts outlines edible Pacific flora and fauna. It details goanna and bandicoot dishes, a dangerous cone shell, palm cabbage, breadfruit, coconuts, figs, honey, seafood, and bush meat like scrub turkey, wild pigs, and cockatoos. The aim is survival and practical cooking methods for pilots and wanderers.
British rationing and fashion contrast with American soldiers in London and Northern Ireland. The piece notes austerity clothing costs, nightly air alerts, and the welcome, culture shocks, and humor of Allied troops. It also recalls cinema life, theater reactions, and blackout practices shaping daily wartime Britain.
The Robinson Armstrong match at Madison Square Garden drew universal condemnation as a travesty of sport. Spectators paid $16.50 ringside and $2.50 for cheap seats and voiced strong disapproval. Robinson controlled the bout with light, routine punches while Armstrong hinted retirement then reconsidered, amid promoter threats and conflicting plans. The era's mood showed nostalgia for Armstrong’s prime and skepticism about modern boxing.
Pattern No 8464 offers sizes 8 11 12 and 14 years needing 24 yards of 35 inch material for size 4 plus a maternity smock with detachable collar and cuffs and an adjustable wrap-around skirt. Pattern No 84753 lists sizes 12 14 16 19 29 40 and 42 with 414 yards of 72 inch material and 42 yards contrast for collar and cuffs.
Practical tips cover sewing knots to prevent loosening, cooling eggs after gathering, refrigerating opened coffee jars, avoiding wall stains from water, shellacing greasy spots before wallpapering, adding bacon to muffins, storing foods away from light, and a maple syrup nut sauce for desserts.
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