Two Modern Maids Stir a Town in a Seventeen Year Old Drama
Winifred Black profiles Marjorie a virtuous seventeen year old in a smart suburb who works as secretary to the principal, does typing for the board, helps in domestic science, directs drama, and supports her family while neighbors debate Isabels jazz and clocking social life. Isabel and her father are contrasted with Marjorie’s home focus.
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Winifred Black
Beauty
Board of Education
Martorie
Ura
Laura
Marjorie
Neighbor
Isabel
Jazz
Telehone
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The Home Kitchen Salad Recipes From Jeannette Norton
A collection of salads and dressings with steps for fruit and vegetable salads, cream cheese salad, and novel hot salad. Includes pineapple garnish, whipped cream dressing, lime juice for alligator pear salad, and melted butter dressings for fish and sweetbreads.
Nina TA Fashion Diary: Designing a Flowered Frock
Nina observes Grace Thorncliffe and Pam aiding a young friend to craft a black taffeta party frock painted with yellow flowers. The 18 year old learns dressmaking basics as Pam adds final touches and envisions her own blue frock with pink roses.
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Nina TA
Grace Thorncliffe
Pem
Pammie
Emma
Pam
Dance Halls and a Girl's Dilemma in a Home Talk
A reader, Mary sixteen, asks if dancing halls and joy rides are right. Elsie advises seeing price marks on people like merchandise, urging the girl to seek wholesome fun with her mother. The letter counsels understanding, open dialogue, and mutual compromise for shared values.
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Elsie
Mary
Premier Syndicate
Advice to Girls By Annie Laurie
A teen girl asks how to seek her mother’s consent to see young men. Annie Laurie suggests telling her mother she wants friends to call, expecting permission. A story of an eighteen year old in love with a twenty one year old prompts caution if the absent lover does not write back.
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Annie Laurye
Annie Laurie
King C Gillette and the Birth of the Modern Safety Razor
A portrait of King Camp Gillette from Fond du Lac to Chicago and New York, where as a traveling salesman he conceived the safety razor. He designed a removable blade and embarked on mass production, building plants worldwide and supplying razor kits to soldiers in wartime.
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King C. Gillette
Patent Office
Gillette
King Camp Gillette
Fond du Lac
Wis
Chicago
New York
Kansas City
Ingland
America
Baltimore Sea Co
United States
Pekin
Leningrad
Buenos Aires
Calcutta
Santa Monica
Cal
Health Aids From Paper To Let Sunlight Reach Children
Dr Royall Copeland discusses a health idea using ordinary wrapping paper to allow ultraviolet rays through, acting as a low cost alternative to quartz glass windows. He cites Johns Hopkins Hospital and a hundred fifty million potential patients, urging continued paper experimentation for affordable health benefits.
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Drroyall Copeland
Childrens’ Ward
Johns Hopkins Hospital
A. Herman Ffund
Tomorrow's Horoscope Forecasts Positive Mercury And Saturn Influence
An active encouraging day is forecast with Mercury parallel and Saturn providing stability. Commercial ventures writings publications and contract renewals may prosper. Changes travel and new opportunities could bring rewards. birthdays may mark a successful year and a clever versatile child could emerge.
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Mercury
Solit
Saturn
Quicksands of Love New Phase in an Old Tale
In a hotel suite a plan unfolds to move Mary and Katherine toward a River side Drive apartment to stage a dramatic interview with Mrs Craithwaite after a family custody battle. The narrator tests Junior’s approval of moving to a big house by the river, while plotting a swift departure.
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Katherine
Harrison
Junior
Harriet
Mary
Dicky
Riverside Drive
Katie
Mrs. Craithwaite
Braithwaites
William Harrison
Madson
Windson River
Luc
Good-Night by Blanche Silver Ant Tale
A sunny morning picnic plans with cousins are spoiled when Mrs. Pimpernel warns of coming storms. Mamma Ant and her brood rush to safety as rain floods the meadows and they return home hungry. The next day Mamma Ant learns to heed the blossom prophet and avoids another storm.
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Little Ant Hill
Mama Ant
Mother Ant
Mamma Ant
Mrs. Pimpere
Mrs. Ant
Mrs. Pimpernel
Ant
Megs
Ant Hill
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Quotations on Thought and character from classic authors
A collage of lines from Carlyle Plautus Emerson Confucius Tennyson Milton praising inner light learning thought and moral reflection. The excerpt blends reflections on thinking souls ingratitude and self awareness with a warning about a hidden dark mind.
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Milton
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