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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1947
Page
8
A Western Newspaper Union release promotes making jams jellies and conserves from seasonal fruits and berries. It provides step by step recipes including Blueberry Apple Butter Cantaloupe Peach Conserve Elderberry Jam Concord Grape and Plum Jam Blackberry Jam Cherry Raspberry Conserve and Cherry Marmalade with sterilization sealing and paraffin guidance.
Learn jelly quality signs. It should be clear tender and sparkling with preserved fruit flavor. It holds shape when inverted and spreads easily with a knife. Use wide mouth containers to slide the jelly onto a plate.
Test for acid by tasting. If it lacks add lemon juice. Fully ripe fruits make tasty jellies but most lack pectin to set. Use half ripe and half not so ripe berries. For spiced jelly add a bag of mixed spices to the juice at first cooking. Use wide bottomed pans so juice cooks quickly and retains color.
A collage of 1947 showbiz notes highlights Jack Berch’s heart to heart appeals drawing 2000 letters for a Dayton boy, Liza Minelli’s screen debut, and Hollywood plans. It covers CBS Studio A backdrops, Tony Martin’s crowd scenes, Metro and Columbia pictures, and stars like Ingrid Bergman, Sam Wanamaker, and Gene Autry with movie and radio projects.
A guide promotes a cheerful morning routine with gentle exercise and grooming. It urges sewing a brunch coat from cotton fabrics, choosing practical, stylish designs, and pressing frequently. The piece emphasizes self care, home sewing, and affordable materials to create attractive, wearable clothes.
Sewing circle pattern notices present a dainty party dress for ages three to eight with heart pockets and shoulder bows, plus a trio of blouses requiring one yard fabric each. Patterns No. B012 and No. 1641 cover sizes 3–7 and 12–20 respectively, with fabric yardage noted and a Summer Fashion issue offer.
Readers can craft dressy outfits at home using pure silk or crepe with costs about a third of ready made garments. The piece highlights the princess coat with capelets and navy designs for warm weather, noting soft colors like beige gray avocado bamboo greens dawn blue and accents of sunflower Primrose and apricot yellow.
Practical: protect wallpaper with cardboard while waxing baseboards. sew hooks and eyes into elastic in children's panties for easier laundering. add glycerine to rinse water to fluff blankets. use net under mends on knitwear and sew loose stitches over it. fill jars with jelly using a gravy boat to avoid spills.
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