Household Questions: Cleaning and Cooking Tips
Practical home tips on linoleum care with wax, furniture polish using vinegar, washing window shades, eggs and celery sandwich with mayo, saving chicken fat as butter substitute, and reviving leather chairs with slip covers. Includes simple steps and everyday substitutions.
Roosevelt Aides Weigh Senate Strategy Ahead of Holidays
As Congress nears adjournment for holidays, Roosevelt asks Vice President Garner Speaker Bankhead and leaders Barkley and Rayburn to salvage the five point program. Housing bill may pass Senate before adjournment. wage hour and antitrust measures face contentious fates amid party splits.
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Fringed mats and napkins edge finishes by whipping
Ruth Wyeth traces a quick method to fringe coarse weave linens and strengthen edges. She advises pulling threads to guide straight cuts and plan mat sizes eleven by eighteen inches with napkins as small as nine inches square. Readers are invited to order Mrs Spears SEWING for 25 cents.
Fragments from a Humorous Newspaper Column
A collection of quips and aphorisms on society and humanity. The writer jests about laws, biographers, Native people, vanity, laughter, gloom, city noise, neighborly love, and misplaced items in a top drawer.
Quiz Answers From Ask Me Another General Trivia
The set of trivia covers census class thresholds, plural form, etymology of Copenhagen, money in circulation as of Aug 31 1937, Antarctica wildlife, skiing speed record, Noah’s Ark resting place, first big football broadcast, and Amazon name origin. It lists population 2500, mites, merchants haven, 7 523 901 587 dollars, penguins, Kjelland nearly 100 mph at St Moritz on Feb 16 1933, Mount Ararat, Princeton Chicago 1922, and tribe of female warriors.
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Copenhagen
United States
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Amazon River
Haven
Kjelland
St. Moritz
Switzerland
Mount Ararat
Armenia
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Chicago
Sure to Delight in Colors Bright
Old fashioned bouquet of roses, cornflowers, daisies, fern, and forget me nots to brighten bedspread. Lace trim adds gaiety. Embroider pattern 5906 includes motifs and color chart. Send 15 cents to The Sewing Circle for pattern 5906 with name and address.
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Banking a Fire for the Night Simple Procedure
A simple method to bank a fire for overnight heat is described. Shake grates to reveal red glow, shift live coals to front to create a hot spot, bank bright gases, exhaust, then adjust dampers and close the fire door. Follow to keep heat for the morning.
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