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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1943
Page
3
Amid a wartime surge in marriages, readers are offered frugal reception ideas and a simple wedding cake recipe. The guide emphasizes DIY, home-catering tactics, and cost-saving methods for hastier, thrifty nuptials while couples cope with wartime limits on displays and travel.
Thursday activities include J club afternoon with Mrs Harold Strum, Rural Women's club with Mrs G H Humston, West Chester Relief Corps tea, Country Club dinner chaired by Mrs Robert Patterson and others, Lexington Circle with Mrs Lon Fleming, Baptist Ladies Missionary Society luncheon, Women’s Missionary Society events, and Women's Council of Church of Christ gathering at 2 pm.
Instructions describe making a two layer frosting with two thirds white and one third tinted pink or yellow, assembly between layers and on top and sides, plus a reception punch recipe using orange grapefruit berry juices citrus salad honey water and garnish with lime and mint. Also outlines Bride's Blush Salad with shrimp celery mayonnaise chili sauce tomato ring on lettuce or watercress and serving in shells.
The Damascus White Shrine gathered at the Masonic temple with Mrs. Merle Green presiding. Plans were set for a September 28 ceremonial visit by Amy Berry of Chicago, supreme worthy high priestess of the White Shrine of Jerusalem. Ice cream strawberries wafers and coffee were served by Mr. and Mrs. Merle Green.
Peculiar qualities describe castor oil as the only known vegetable or artificial oil not soluble in mineral soil and the only oil soluble in alcohol. It also highlights its ability to flow at very low temperatures.
A vintage gingerbread ice cream layer cake recipe blends flour, spices, molasses and butter with buttermilk and egg. Bake a short cake then sandwich with nut ice cream, cool, slice and serve with pear garnish for six.
Nellie Tripp hosted twenty three members of the Women's Missionary Society of the United Presbyterian Church for an evening meeting. Nora Ebner led devotions with I Kings 18 19 21 and spoke on Mr. Carmel. Ebner described the mountain and its link to Israel history.
Three candles mark Ronald Dale Oldfield s birthday as the son of Delmar Oldfield of Wellman. The list recalls Mr and Mrs Homer Meartin of Crawfordsville on their anniversary and honors Har old Speidel and others on the birthday roll. Catherine Irene Neff turns five and Grant B Davis of Santa Ana is 27.
Mrs Leona Roberts and Correne Edmondson entertained their Sunday school class at Sunset Park with a picnic dinner for sixteen. The menu included baked beans potato salad meat sandwiches pickles sherbet and cookies. The group spent the afternoon playing in the park. Today marks the ninth wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs Albert Mills.
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