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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1949
Page
10
Ettta Haley advises replacing worn curtains as weather warms. Measure windows and buy fabric twice their width with allowances for seams and shrinkage. Choose woven fabrics like net or scrim and cut on the floor for best results. vacuum and damp clean the work area.
A detailed set of curtain making tips stressing tearing fabric to avoid cuts, threading and chalk lines, grain attention, selvage removal, and ironing. It covers basting reduction, hem folding, and trial fittings. It advises stiffening at heading with buckram for French pleats and suggests washing to control shrinkage before sewing.
Garden advice stresses soil prep and gradual planting to cut back work. Loosen stiff soils with plowing or spading and avoid planting everything at once. Use organic matter and mulch to suppress weeds and conserve moisture while applying balanced plant food for fertility and pest control.
Kathleen Norris critiques self pity in a long letter thread about a woman, Lily, and their mother. She argues many blame past family injuries rather than current choices and urges balance, warning against using psychoanalysis to justify lifelong resentment.
A Library of Congress effort overseas photographs 20 000 northern Mexican historical documents in Mexico City with a second laboratory in Japan and a planned medieval manuscript project in Palestine. Smisor reports staff trek across Sierra towns by mule to film cabildos records from Durango spanning the 16th to 19th centuries.
A jumble of high society chatter covers Margaret Truman's social life and possible wedding rumors. Helen Hayes's daughter may wed a socialite, with other mentions of Merle Oberon under orders, Ann Hathaway canceling a Northwestern grid star merger, and various gossip about actors, singers, and political figures in Manhattan and Palm Beach circles.
A fragment contains ten trivia Qs and their answers about Columbus 1492, voter turnout, vice presidential resignation, demijohn use, longest tunnel, Waterloo location, bobbin, electoral votes, bullnose tool, and WWII taxes. Answers reference San Salvador, 20 million, Calhoun 1832, liquid for demijohn, Simpson tunnel 12 miles 560 yards, Belgium near Brussels, sewing machine, equal to state congressional seats, plane a lathe, and 119,346,288,000 dollars.
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