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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1954
Page
6
A compact guide offers tips for finding a suitable spot at home for laundry. It outlines practical options like running water access, drainage, ventilation, and electricity considerations to ensure efficient washing and optimal setup.
Agriculture department experts offer differing advice on selecting a ripe watermelon. Some favor a thumping test while others rely on size and color cues. Most end with a caveat about varying conditions and varieties.
A lively column promotes glamor in school lunch pails with varied fillings and a hot soup thermos. It shares apricot nut bread as a moist, long lasting option, provides a recipe, and offers storage tips. It also covers watermelon tests and home buying tips from agricultural experts, plus a jar cover softening tip.
Mrs Delano R Aves of South Fifth La Porte announces the engagement and forthcoming marriage of her daughter Miss Mary Susan Aves to Norman Streichert of Topeka Kansas. The ceremony will take place in St Johns Episcopal Church La Porte in late September. Mary Susan Aves is a La Porte High School graduate who studied at the University of Texas and the Kangas Art Institute. Streichert is a World War II veteran who attended Cornell and the University of Kansas and works as a bacteriologist.
Evelyn Stanford circle of Central Baptist church plans a progressive dinner. Meeting held at Mrs M E Kingston home 412 West Homan with prayers and a mission study lesson on Daniel and His Apologies. Visitors Mrs Lawhon and Mrs Sheppard attended. Next gathering set for 10 am Tuesday at Mrs BE Hale’s 1013 North Second Street.
Claire Cox reports from New York on the Do it yourself toy trend influencing 1984 toy picks. The Key Guidance Council names top toys often children assemble themselves. Dr Emma Dickson Sheehy of Columbia Teachers College outlines rules for selecting durable, safe, playable, and aesthetically pleasing toys.
A widowed seamstress sparked a maternity dress industry with elastic waistbands on tea gowns a half century ago. A Lane Bryant fashion show on Fifth Avenue highlights US leadership in maternity wardrobe design with diverse styles from balloon blouses to one piece dresses and velvet jumper coats. The display features American designs and showcases how modern maternity fashion evolved from immigrant seamstresses turning home skills into a national business.
Pre harvest practices for potatoes emphasize hilling soil around maturing plants to keep them upright and protect tubers from sun. Exposed tubers turn green and inedible. cover them promptly. Dig on a dry sunny day and allow freshly dug potatoes to dry for an hour or two.
The article notes potatoes keep best in a dry cellar at 32 to 36 degrees with air circulation. Proper storage in bins oxen barrels or crates and regular airing on warm days help. Protect foliage, as food for tubers comes from the plant’s leaves and any damage to foliage affects underground development.
A Garden Page on planting beans by DEAN distributed by Cents discusses timing from early August planting to first week August 1 in most areas. It covers bush and pole bean strategies, picking young pods for flavor and canning, with tips on avoiding stringiness and harvesting to prolong bearing.
The First Baptist Women's Missionary Union named officers and chairmen Tuesday morning at the church. Appointees include Mrs. J Garland Smith as president, Mrs. Pete Keppard as vice president and jubilee chairman, and Mrs. Wade Dubose as young people's director. Others cover second vice president program chairman recording secretary treasurer social chairman and various circle chairs. A pre meeting program featured Indonesia specific talks with Mrs Bengston Miss Peet and Mrs M C Smith participating. Franklin New Jersey is noted as a zinc ore site of willemite suitable for zinc smelting.
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