14 Oct 1937
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Newspaper
Big Piney Examiner
Location
Big Piney, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1937
Page
1
Embroider tea towels with fruit and kitchenware motifs using outline or applique stitches. Pattern 5891 provides six transfers averaging 51 by 67 inches, with materials, colors, and stitch illustrations. Send 15 cents to The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept New York for the pattern with name, address, and pattern number.
A fragmentary sketch discusses truth and tact, noting many towels and large quantities of soap stolen from railroad companies yearly. It argues cleanliness ranks above honesty in virtues, and questions why people guard others' spectacles while ignoring honesty.
Floyd Gibbons narrates the 1896 Stanley disaster off Texel island. Hank Cowden and 33 crew endure a gale, the ship’s breaking, lifeboat capsizing, and a night marooned in rigging. Rockets signal rescuers, sixteen aboard, then all crew reach safety aboard Hercules and a steamer. Five hundred fishermen perished in the storm.
A Chicago Tribune writer notes the elephant can lift logs weighing many coolies would struggle with and move them with tusks trunk and feet. It details careful timber piling and selective picking under driver command and warns on tusk breakage. It contrasts with Shakespeare’s claim elephants cannot lie down.
Lettuce has been used as food since ancient times. Herodotus notes a 550 B C salad. Pliny details cultivation and blanching for year round use. Tudor records mention a gardener rewarded for supplying letture to Henry VIII's court.
A famed college basketball coach will soon be visited by a committee from his team seeking assurances scholarships won’t be cut as soon as playing days end. The piece notes athletes entering college to obtain diplomas, with various sports figures and institutions named in a sprawling, period-tinged rundown.
A dress design with a lifted waist line for a molded figure, square shoulders and two pockets suited for sizes 12 to 20. Pattern 1373 fits 12 to 20, requires 2½ yards of 54 inch material for size 14, and is offered by The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept at 149 New Montgomery Ave San Francisco California. Patterns cost 15 cents each and 15 cents for the Barbara Bell Fall and Winter Pattern Book.
The quote argues that true honesty elevates a man beyond mere sanctimonious posturing. It condemns sanctity as an affectation that sulks piety and weakens moral sincerity.
Modern doctors note pressure on nerves from the digestive tract causes dizziness headaches and stomach distress. The ad promotes Adherka as a gentle fast-acting evacuant that clears wastes, relieves bowel congestion in about half an hour, and has no violent effects, supported by doctors and druggists for 35 years. Courage to the Task quote from Emerson closes.
An ad-style claim urges fat individuals to measure weight, take Kruschen Salts 4 oz bottle for four weeks, halve a teaspoon in hot water daily, adjust diet and exercise, and reweigh after three weeks to notice fat loss, energy gain, clearer skin, and younger feeling with a money back guarantee.
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