Old Craft Given New Dimensions
Kennebunkport artist Joan Moshimer promotes hooked rug making with a studio in an old barn. Her magazine The Bug Hooker News and Views debuts in October with patterns and articles by teachers and designers. The W. Cushing and Co. mill supplies dyed wool for hundreds of designs and kits.
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Kennebunkport
Joan Moshimer
Bangor Ywca
Brewer
Portland
Moshimer
Fortland Y
William Langzettel
Moshimers
W. Cushing and Co
Dover-Foxcroft
Mushimer
Paul
Boston
Jean
Times
Women Liberation Around the World Questioned
The Associated Press presents a survey of gender roles in the Czech Republic and China. Czech men favor traditional wife duties yet support some work by women while preferring to be main breadwinners. In China Mao’s thought condemns domination by husbands though China’s 1954 constitution grants equal rights. Nixon’s question to Chou En-lai about women’s intelligence yields a nuanced reply.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Prague
China
Communist Party
Mao Tse-tung
People’s Republic
Mao
U.S. Senate
United States
Nixon
Chou En-Lai
Chou
History Comes Alive Quest For Recipes From New England
A feature on American cookery highlights regional dishes from New England and beyond. It tours Sturbridge and the Publick House’s colonial nursery of dishes and recipes including pumpkin muffins and a list of early colonial treats.
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South Carolina
Alaska
New England
Vermont
Boston
America
Massachusetts
Sturbridge
Freeman Farmhouse
Col
Ebenezer Crafts
Colonel Craft
Marquis de Lafayette
Crafts
Picpus Cemetery
Paris
Breed’s Hill
Charleston
Mass
Richard Brams
Deviled Hamburgers From Ham To Tongue Dish
60 inch Cox Cokery presents Deviled Hamburgers using deviled ham and ground beef with breadcrumbs chili sauce and salt. Form six patties and skillet cook then assemble with tomatoes and pickles in buns. Also notes how to prepare smoked beef tongue and store it after cooking.
New Season For Hadassah Underway
Women of the Biddeford Saco Hadassah plan a rummage sale a food sale and the annual dance at Etz Chaim Synagogue in Biddeford. Mrs. Carl Haas led the first fall meeting and a spokesman notes Hadassah’s services including medical strides in Israel and tree planting in the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Biddeford-Saco
Hadassah
Carl Haas
Etz Chaim
Bacon Street
Biddeford
United States
Israel
They Never Had Teachers Like Her at Portland School
Karen Johnson Halverson former Miss Maine and 1971 Miss America runner up joins Plus Gray's School of Business faculty in October. She studied at Wayneflete School Oberlin Conservatory and the University of Maine Portland Gorham program, pursuing a BS in Music. She will teach secretarial students charm poise and personality development.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Plus Gray’s School of Business
Karen Johnson Halverson
Maine
Four hundred former stewardesses return as mothers
In Chicago a court approved settlement allows 400 women fired for pregnancy to be rehired by Trans World Airlines and American Airlines, regaining original seniority. The group, some in their 40s, resumes flight duties amid changes since 1965.
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Los Angeles
Trans World Airlines
American Airlines
Air Line Stewards and Stewardesses Association
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Chicago
TWA
American
Autumn’s kitchen revival and debates on women’s equality
The piece extols autumn cooking with seafood chowder beans and pies, urging home cooks to embrace practical menus. It also critiques misogyny in current feminism debates and reports NOW president Wilma Scott Heide’s strong reaction to the pope’s decree restricting women in Catholic ministry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Women’s Liberation Movement
New York
Wilma Scott Heide
National Organization For Women (Now
Paul VI
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Kennebunkport Hooks
Cecil Munson
Renoir
USA
Cox Cokery
Cecily Brownstone
Associated Press Food
Europe
By Peg Welch
E. Matthias Hickey
Paquin Avenue
Women’s Sodality
St. Mary Church
Sodality
Alfred Loignon
William O'Sullivan
Eleanor Mogan
Robert Gagne
Hickey
Robert Center
Esther O’connor
O’sullivan
Norman Reilly
Daniel Dentico
Mogan
Loignon
Richard Danforth
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