Woman's World: Home Dressmaking Leads to Professional Look
Practical guide for home sewers on achieving a flattering, well fitting dress. Emphasizes recognizing figure faults, precise pattern adjustments, use of a thermoplastic dress form, careful pressing, and accurate finishing for durable, stylish garments.
Suspenders as American Icon Stirring National Debate
The column argues suspenders symbolize American pioneer spirit and morale, criticizing a congressional waste claim about universal soldier suspenders. It mocks belt supremacy, cites historic figures and events, and suggests suspender buttons shaped national identity despite war and tech advances.
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Army
Daniel Boone
Zebulon Pike
Colonel Fremont
Kit Carson
Sutters Mill
Hardy
Yukon
Abe Lincoln
Churchill sightings and Rembrandt tales aboard ship near Liberty
A chaotic clipping reports Churchill viewing two films on the Queen Mary voyage as the ship neared the Statue of Liberty. It mentions a $175,000 Rembrandt hidden in a cellar, along with other paintings by Turner and Hals, and notes a Fragonard as the door barring choice. Also references a Florida race winner and a horse named Prigger on video.
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Churchill
Statue of Liberty
Billy
Rose
Beekman Place
Bay
Two Types Givers and Takers in Old Age
Kathleen Norris explores aging and dependency through Margery Humber’s letter, urging 56 year old women to redefine usefulness as giving rather than taking. The piece offers examples of older women finding work in hospitality and service, from flower room duties to hotel mending, highlighting dignity and new roles.
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Ike
Margery Humber
Roanoke
Korea
Grandma
Margery
World's highest land animals include cannibal spiders and mountain mammals
Scientists report life at extreme altitudes on Everest and other ranges. Creatures range from tiny cannibal spiders at 22 000 to 28 000 feet to snow leopards, ibex, yaks, marmots, and Himalayan bears. In the Andes are llamas and kin, while mountain gorillas inhabit Congo slopes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount
Everest
Himalayas
Andes
South America
Belgian Congo
Tackle Tales and Shooting Tips From Ocean Year
A Hollywood cameraman recalls a years long rescue of a lost rod and reel, later surf fishing with kelp, a 27 and 33 pound chinook salmon, and enduring gear care. The piece also previews Charles Edward Chapel on moving targets and rifle shooting from Simplified Rifle Shooting with line drawings by Winchester.
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Ocean City
Montague Red
Hollywood
California
Rod
China
Redondo Beach
Charles Edward Chapel
Chapel
Winchester Repeating Arms Company
They Like Cover Bass Like Cover
A fishing note recommends casting near cover such as reed beds cattails and lily pads where bass shelter. A dropped plug near snags often attracts bites while fish may feed at dusk moving to open shallow water chasing minnows. Look for swirls wakes indicating feeding bass.
Heart Disease Remains Top Cause of Death in America
In Lawrenceburg Indiana Dr Charles E Dutchess of Schenley Laboratories reports heart disease will claim nearly 480000 American lives this year. Cancer and vascular brain lesions are listed as other leading causes by Dutchess.
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Lawrenceburg
Ind
Charles E. Dutchess
Schenley Laboratories, Inc
Dutchess
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