Christmas Cookie Box Ideas from a Holiday Kitchen
Festive gift boxes feature Bran Filled Hermits Christmas Butter Cookies and other treats. Recipes include Penuche Popcorn Brittle Popcorn Fudge Swedish Sprits and Krispie Marshmallow Stars with tips for wrapping and decorating.
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Western Newspaper Union
Gift ideas for present selection and packing tips
Lynn suggests choosing colorful jelly or jam gifts and wrapping with gay paper and blue ribbon. Recommend bringing out fruit cake plum pudding and arranging cookies and candies in gift boxes with waxed paper between layers for freshness.
Household Tips From an Old Era
A soda cracker crushed and sprinkled on pie crust prevents juice overflow. Cut corners off stiff envelopes when mailing a book to protect corners. A little starch in washing water polishes mirrors. Hot soapy water removes pewter stains and restores shine.
Dress pattern 8971 offers slimming bodice and vestee options
Pattern No. 8971 provides full bodice sections for larger figures and a smart slimming vestee as a contrast belt. It suggests a lighter contrast tone like beige against brown and lists sizes 36 to 52 with fabric requirements.
Dress Styles for Larger Women Sparks Interest
The article discusses a dress design favored by larger women highlighting its individuality and appeal. It notes how the garment balances personal expression with flattering fit, suggesting confidence and fashion-forward thinking.
Trivia from The Questions Puzzle Set
The questions cover sports with swimmers who avoid water, a large Western hemisphere railroad tunnel, another name for the Suomi, the country with the next most rail miles after the United States, and the year Joe Louis won the heavyweight title.
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Hemisphere
United States
Joe Louis
Answers 1 Surf-board riding
The cascade tunnel in Washington is 7.79 miles long. Finns and Russia are referenced. In 1937.
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Cascade Tunnel
Washington
Russia
Spirit of 76 painting by Archibald Willard
The famous Spirit of ’76 by Archibald M. Willard, sketched after the Civil War and painted to honor early American patriotism. Willard, who lived 1836 to 1918, created the Puck comics and contributed a humorous sketch for Philadelphia’s 1876 Centennial opening. The original hangs in Abbott Hall Library, Marblehead, Massachusetts.
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Archibald M. Willard
America
Philadelphia
Abbott Hall
Marblehead
Mass
Dr Caldwell's Laxative Senna with Syrup Pepsin
A vintage advertisement promotes Dr Caldwell's Laxative Senna combined with Syrup Pepsin to ease constipation. It claims quick relief by waking lazy nerves and muscles in the intestines and notes the product is easy on the stomach and palatable for children.
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Dr. Caldwell
Milton Quote on Books and Danger to Men
A line from John Milton asserts that a good book can almost kill a man as surely as killing a good book. The remark expresses literary risk and intense value placed on reading.
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