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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1944
Page
6
The article suggests letting children plan their own party to boost imagination social skills and independence. It offers simple menu ideas like hot ham sandwiches sausages and spaghetti toasties and molded salads with easy preparations for different age groups and supervision by a parent.
A noted Lyon Chambers feature lists menus with sausage and spaghetti items plus bread and butter sandwiches, fresh slaw, and a grapefruit carrot mold. Recipes cover cherry cobbler hot fudge pudding and cranberry punch, with directions and serving notes for entertaining at home.
The piece advises serving cool foods on chilled plates and bowls, chilling all salad ingredients and utensils, and using the three Cs clean cool and crisp. It stresses selecting crisp lettuce free from decay and tossing to coat each ingredient with dressing for even seasoning.
Grantland Rice echoes that sport thrives on relative value, not individual stars. He argues baseball, football, golf, and racing endure and excel when great athletes depart, because the game, its contests, and top-class competition remain the core draw.
The Sewell family from Titus and Decatur Alabama produced notable players. Joseph Wheeler Sewell and Luke Sewell rose early, followed by Rip Sewell from Decatur. Joe Sewell moved from the minors to help Cleveland win a World Series and set a record for consecutive games played, surpassing early Gehrig eras.
Fashion writer Cherie Nicholas notes wartime wardrobes favor white rayon blouses with versatile silhouettes. She highlights sheer and opaque rayons, frills and jabots, self fabric bows, and tailored details suitable for day wear or evening, with prints, checks, and bold patterns popular in spring.
Style interest in black cottons is rising as the season begins. Well dressed women favor black cottons for day wear and dressy frocks, with suits in black pique, linen-like finish, gabardine, and army twill styled with frosted trims and lace accents. A standout is the semi-sheer balloon batiste with black lace bands for gala wear.
A fashion trend centers on wide brim hats heavily fringed with dramatic coverage. Styles include mushroom shapes and oversized awnings that showcase the fringe technique as a bold statement in headwear.
A description of lace pompons worn as accessories at the square neckline or pinned under the chin on a hat, highlighting finely sewn lingerie lace details and stylish pairing options.
Ruth Wyeth Spears describes light weight pine wall pockets with many uses such as ration book holders grocery pad near door for keys or gloves. She notes origins in varied designs as letter boxes and provides patterns Request Pattern 261 with full making and finishing directions for 15 cents.
A set of trivia items includes how many states have four letters in their names a term rodomontadist a figure who tamed Pegasus with Athena s bridle which sport is truly American in origin the purpose of tall wooden coastal structures and the approximate north south length of Africa the continent These questions resemble a general knowledge round from a playful radio or newspaper feature.
A fragment mentions Ohio Iowa and Utah. An empty braggart is described with Bellerophon and basketball. It notes blimp hangars built entirely of wood reaching 17 stories and spanning five thousand miles in total across references.
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