Plan Keeps Summer In Mind
Dramatic breezeway transforms an ordinary one story home into a low cost ranch style with an outdoor living room connecting house and garage. Architect Rudolph A. Matern uses brick veneer and clever layout to create privacy, light and integrated indoor outdoor living in a 1479 square foot plan with three bedrooms two baths a full basement and a spacious kitchen and living areas.
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Rudolph A. Matern
Matern
Radolph A. Matern
Refreshingly Tangy Lime Apple Souffle Dessert
A light airy dessert blending lime gelatin with vanilla ice cream and apple sauce. Line a shallow dish with ladyfingers, fold in the cooled mixture, chill until firm, then top with whipped cream maraschino cherries and lemon rind for garnish. Makes six servings.
Soap's long road from medicine to modern luxury
The article traces soap from ancient Mesopotamian medicated soap using salt cassia oil and foetida to its transformation into a taxed luxury under monarchs. It covers adoption by Greeks and Romans for skin disorders, guilds in the seventh century, and lingering luxury status into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It notes soap advertising in that era and the enduring role of soap in daily hygiene and civilization.
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Mesopotamia
England
Gladstone
Abdominal Exercise That Builds Core Strength
A kneeling posture with upright spine and slow backward lean strengthens thigh and abdominal muscles. Start with three reps and gradually increase to achieve a flatter midriff and reduced thigh girth as fitness improves.
Summer's Smarter Costume Stepping Out In Fanfare Of Pleats
A vintage advertisement for Summer Printed Pattern M465 promotes a pleated costume in Misses' sizes 10 to 18. It details fabric needs a 45 inch fabric four percent yards for size 16 jacket and skirt and includes ordering instructions with a one dollar price. The notice requests buyers print their home address zone style number and size for mailing.
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Brant
Daily Telegraph
Chelsea Station
New York
N. Y Mada
Women spies in wartime laundries expose Nazi lines
Pierre Nord, author of Spies by the Fireside, says women make the best spies during wartime. He notes that laundries under Nazi occupation helped uncover troop identities from numbers on shirts and yielded other vital information through ordinary chores.
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Brussels
WNS
Pierre Nord
Nord
Belgian Begonias: Can Do Flower For Gardens Indoors
Belgian begonias offer versatile color and long lasting bloom from June to frost. They thrive in shade and containers, with over five thousand varieties bred. Prepare tubers in sand peat mix, keep warm and moist, then transplant to pots, feeding monthly for healthy displays both outside and indoors.
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New York
N. Y
Belgium
United States
Candle Remedy Promoted to Absorb Tobacco Smoke
In Hamburg Germany Dr Gertrud Meisser urged the Thursday Club to light a candle in rooms where tobacco smoke lingers to absorb the odor. She warned of stagnant air harming pets and plants and promised the candle neutralizes the smoke.
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Hamburg
Germany
Wns
Gertrud Meisser
Garbo Buys Painting. Begrudges Autograph
Paris artist Bernard Lignon opened his show at the Pet rides Gallery and sold a canvas to Greta Garbo. He faced a dilemma whether to cash the check for payment or keep it as the autograph, quipping that women always make a man's life difficult.
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Garbo
Grips Paris
WNS
Bernard Lignon
Petrides
Greta Garbo
Silence as emblem marks hotels and restaurants guide
The Touring Club adds a list of hotels and restaurants that adopt silence as their emblem. Dr. Salvatore Riccardi says a yearly period of silence while dining and resting heals diseases, builds romance, and helps couples reconnect by simply looking at each other quietly.
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Rome
Wns
Salvatore Riccardi
East German Housewife Scapegoat for Food Wastage Policy
East Germany targets housewives as blamed for waste and reduced hog feed amid pork shortages. Government-backed inspectors will audit garbage and stores to curb waste and combat price gouging, with Rostock cited for overcharging a customer by two marks on a duck.
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Berlin
WNS
East Germany
East Berlin
Garbage Gestapo
Rostock
Erfurt
Arbeiter Und Bauerninspektion
ABL
ABI
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