Household Tips From a Past Era
Practical hints on cooking oysters frying oil care for paint removal with borax and kettles, locating scissors with ribbons, removing perfume stains, keeping cut flowers in the fridge, dressing table upkeep and fresh room decor with organdie sheets, plus glassware care using ammonia.
Read the Grape Nuts Ad to Join the Dizzy Dean Winners
A newspaper column promotes joining the Dizzy Dean Winners program by following a Grape Nuts advertisement in another section. It hints at valuable free prizes without detailing how to enter.
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Difficulties Fly Before Real Attacks
A terse reflection compares obstacles to a horizon that yields to those who advance, suggesting resilience and persistence against challenges in pursuing goals.
Boy Saves Payroll as Camp Bank Combusts
Kerry Young, a seven year old helper, ferries the payroll file from the burning camp office while Ted West fights the blaze. The town banker reveals the file is empty, revealing the payroll burned, and Jack faces ruin as the boy protests his obedience and fear.
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Old Jack Faces Loss of Payroll and Quiet Descent
Chapter II follows Jack Snow arriving at dusk to learn his payroll was lost. He appears aged by the news, vows to pay the crew from his own funds, and grows distant and feverish. Kerry, Tod West, and others reflect on the fallout as the tale moves toward its continuation.
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Cross Stitch Towels That Are Fun to Make
Simple cross stitch adds color to tea towels turning dish duties into a pleasure. Six easy motifs of glassware and chinaware make decorative pick-up work and a grand prize at a bridge party or fair donation. Pattern 787 includes six motifs and transfer, 15 cents to The Sewing Circle.
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Kissing as a deadly disease carrier by a London doctor
A London doctor's humorous arithmetic suggests kissing could spread vast numbers of germs. He recounts a party guest schedule over a week noting multiple women to illustrate how rapidly germs could multiply, ending with a comical, exaggerated total.
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Dunn
London
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