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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1948
Page
3
Readable cookbook style notes offer chicken as a budget friendly protein. It includes a Chicken Pie recipe with vegetables and a flaky crust and a Chicken Chow Mein method with stock, soy sauce, vegetables, and noodles. Both dishes yield hearty meals for cooler weather.
Yesterday's roast can become a casserole or stew or hash stuffed into green peppers. Save bacon drippings by refrigerating them for seasoning vegetables. Sweet cake and cookie crumbs can finish a dessert as a souffle or with ice cream.
A collage of dishes and cooking guidance from Lynn Chambers includes Diced Pineapple in Grapefruit Juice salad and a Chicken Tetrazzini recipe with white sauce, mushrooms, chicken, spaghetti, and cheese. Also included are Chicken Stew with Dumplings and Chicken Turnovers Pastry with detailed dough and filling instructions.
Sweden has long produced many matches but the United States now leads the field, with Sweden dropping to fourth, Britain second and the Soviet Union third in global production rankings.
Sodium dichromate added to brine drippings from refrigerator cars provides effective protection against the corrosive action of brine on car, track and bridge structures reported in the notes.
A sweeping weekly roundup reports on the Washington Chamber of Commerce sales and merchandising school opening with Don Ross as speaker, local car crash injuries near Crawfordsville, Walking Man sightings, music and church events, school board reelection, county music contest wins, hospitalizations, service plans, Red Cross drives, and community notices spanning April events and civic activities.
The Big Days committee announced a Washington cleanup event for Thursday April 14 with a prize of 50 dollars for the first participants who correctly identify a mystery item. The notice highlights community involvement and local organization support.
A retrospective from Washington recalls events from ten years past including the Happy Du Bois fire scene, a nearly full attendance at a cooking school at Rukgabee, and Homer Birney’s electric fence setup. The McCormick-Deering store is replaced by Smart and Parrish Imple ment, a new factory project north of Mills Seed Co, and Frank McElroy renaming Stuart hotel to Hotel Washington. Engagements and local anniversaries mix with school leadership changes and hog losses cited from April memories.
The article notes a cantata titled The Crucifixion on Faster was performed at the Methodist church last Sunday. It mentions Clarice Meek and Marguerite Wallace teaching in Detroit and attending a Cleanest City in Iowa party.
At the Hospital MONDAY Admitted Today Mrs Harry Kreese Keota surgical Saturday Mr and Mrs Austin Emry Brighton son at 3 36 p m Mr and Mrs LeRoy McGraw route 2 daughter at 19 29 p m Yesterday Mr and Mrs Da vid Messenger route 1 daugh ter 2 4 a m Mr and Mrs Alan Bereiter Brighton son at 8 47 pm Saturday Mrs William Single ton Keota Hugh Ollinger Ke ota Mrs Lyle Brock 943 N 7th and son
Listings show surgeries and births with names and addresses including Mrs Sherman Hart ley at Brighton undergoing appendectomy and Mrs Pauline Blanchard, S20 N. 2nd, plus Mrs Cassius Crossett and Leo Wagner at Wayland with a daughter and a son born at specific times. Dismissed Patricia Dawson at 1617 KE Adams.
Birth notices and medical updates from area residents listing names and addresses. Highlights include new births yesterday and today at various local settings such as Kalona Keota Morning Sun Brighton Warland and Wayland with times and parent names. Some entries note medical procedures like appendectomy and surgeries.
Guidance for cleaning felt hats by rubbing with fine sandpaper or art gum. Recommends a rubber sponge for felt and notes it is more suitable for brushing woolen suits coats and dresses.
Farm safety guidance warns against placing ordinary stoves or furnaces within three feet of unprotected woodwork wood lathe or plaster partitions in building designs. The note emphasizes proper spacing and protective barriers to reduce fire risk on farms.
Del Stewart resigns as deputy treasurer to run the nursery business this season. Roy Means and Sam Walton, playing basketball, collided during practice last week causing Walton a broken collar bone. Walton is in pain but not believed to be seriously hurt.
Nvyla Reinier daughter of Mrs. James Buck and Charles W. Thrapp of Wilton Junction wed in a double ring ceremony at the Baptist church Saturday evening officiated by Rev. Paul Wells. Robert E. Phillips and Ethel I. Sayre, both of St. Louis, Missouri, married in a double ring ceremony at the bride’s mother’s Brighton Iowa home. Constance DPD. Stacy of Wayland to Warren Lewis Jr. of New York conclude the trio of weekend vows.
Mrs. Mary Genkinger aged 79 died Wednesday evening April 14 at her home 302 East Seventh street after a two year illness. Mrs. Jacob Stauffer a Wavylana resident died Saturday evening at 7 20 at her daughter Rosa Swanson’s home in Peoria Illinois where she had visited. She suffered a heart attack shortly after arrival and died soon after.
About 40 employees accepted Waterloo packing plant’s back-to-work invitation as 3,000 protesters gathered. Leo Guynn of Local 46 said only eight returning workers were union members, amid a nationwide strike context and a nine-cent wage offer rejected by the union.
Convicts at Joliet prison volunteered as human guinea pigs for testing pentaguine a new drug to treat relapsing malaria among veterans who contracted malaria in tropical jungles. Authorities say the drug proved effective and is now distributed free by the Illinois veterans commission. The treatment is claimed to help in about 95 percent of relapse cases.
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