Cleopatra’s Fem Quilt Pattern Description and Request
The notice promotes a Cleopatra themed quilt pattern 1579 by The Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept New York. It highlights using palm leaf fan motifs with three materials, explains nine and a half inch blocks, provides complete cutting sewing finishing instructions yardage chart bed size layouts and a block diagram for patch placement. Send 15 cents plus name address and pattern number.
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Neediecraft
Eighth Ave
New York
N.Y
Soap usage rise boosts U.S. per capita consumption
Advertising from 1919 to 1924 lifted per capita soap consumption in the United States by 50 percent to 24 pounds annually, compared with Europe’s 4 pounds.
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United States
Europe
Read to Weigh and Consider Not to Belittle Truth
A terse maxim invites readers to weigh evidence before forming beliefs. It cautions against contradiction and confusion, urging calm, deliberate discourse over hasty judgments to attain clearer understanding.
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Ead
Bacon
Fair Division by Oldest Brother Idea Endures
A humorous column recounts an ancient justice idea: let the elder divide an estate into two shares and the younger pick first. It contrasts this simple plan with lawyers’ tastes and riffs on cemetery ads, mint julep debates, and global irony about crime and norms. The piece uses satirical vignettes about markets, culture, and nations.
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Anta Monica
Calif
Solomon
American Bar Association
Mistletoe Sparks a Long Lost Holiday Romance
Natalie Parker returns to the family stone house after a snowbound journey and rekindles a romance with Bruce Draper. A chaotic Christmas brings laughter, gifts spill, and a planned reopening of the old homestead as Amanda joins the couple.
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Arnold Harlow
Triulsboro
Benjamin Parker
Natalie
Amanda
Natale
Natalie Parker
Bruce Draper
Bruce
Edith
Parker
Harlow
Arnold
Phillip
Peter
Marjorie
Western Newspaper Union
Broadway play plans for Deanna Durbin teased
Deanna Durbin may tour Broadway in spring if her upbringing advisors agree the schedule won’t overstrain her. Her mother manager vocal teacher and the physician at Universal studios weigh every public appearance amid growing crowds and worry.
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Eanna Durbin
Universal Studios
Deanna
Motion Deanna Picture
Radio Durbin Studios
Five Hundred Women at Moscow Science Meet
A Moscow conference hosts five hundred women scientists with no male speakers or association members present. Notable figures include V. P. Lebedeva, a medical professor, and M. L. Rokhlina who notes women students rising from 16,700 in 1914 to 183,000. Half of Russia's doctors are women, with most women scientists in medicine, chemistry, and biology.
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Moscow
Russia
V. P. Lebedeva
M. L. Rokhlina
Pumpkin Custard Favorite Recipe of the Week
A pumpkin custard recipe uses canned pumpkin for convenience and guides baking in a water bath for about 45 minutes at a moderate oven. Serve unmolded on a chop platter with stuffed prune garnish and whipped cream, finishing with prune juice drizzle for flavor and appearance. MARJORIE H BLACK.
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Marjorie H, Black
Gift of Humor and Character From Arthur Benson
A quotation extols humor as a divine grace enhancing character. It praises humor for balance avoiding gush or rigidity, calling it an artistic sense of proportion, tolerance, and forgiving power in a noble mind. The words compare humor to a royal virtue improving personal stature.
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Arthur Benson
How One Woman Lost 20 Is of Fat
An advertised fat loss scheme proposes weighing, taking Kruschen Salts twice daily, changing diet, and light exercise to remove fat in weeks. It promises energy gains and clearer skin, with a money back guarantee if results do not satisfy.
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Seuls
Lydia B. Pakham
Nature
Lydia Beb Pinkitam
Gosling
New York
Helen Claire
Aunt Jenny
CBS
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the Serpent
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Gil
Alice
Leslie Howard
Bette Davis
Olivia de Haviland
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