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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1934
Page
8
Article advises travel to sample homes and social rituals, noting that cleanliness, planning, and dining room conversation shape impression. It argues the hostess, embodying Womanhood, sets charm and directs dinner etiquette from guest counts to decorations.
Step by step guidance on table setting for a formal dinner. Details cover placing corners, candles, cloth, napkins, leaves, and centerpieces. Instructions include cover size, silver and utensil placement, service plates, glassware, salts, and guest seating. Also outlines serving order from appetizers to coffee and hostess etiquette.
The article outlines service etiquette for meals, detailing cup and saucer handling, placement of dishes, and guest interaction. It notes coffee service timing and beverage placement, with advice on serving order from left and removing cups from the right, plus a winter note that soup time dominates. It ends with a note offering soup recipes via a stamped envelope to Jeanette Beyer at The Cedar Rapids Gazette.
Mrs. J L Rhea profiles 1934 seed catalogs and judges gold medal picks for flowers and vegetables. Highlights include Calendula Sunshine Petunia Pink Gem Linaria fairy bouquets and notable new varieties from Danish and Japanese breeders plus American Sunlight Hunnemannia.
Kit, a love-hungry factory worker, manipulates romance to marry Hal while Jack falls for Edith. After a series of schemes and a secret wedding, Jack’s engagement to Edith Lowell shocks Kit. Hal’s quiet care exposes Kit’s emotional trap as she confronts the reality of marriage.
Kit reads a troubling message from Jack that promises a late night call as she sits with an envelope. A postscript disavows an engagement announcement, claiming no prior knowledge of it. The scene ends with Kit pondering the implications as the page turns.
The annual sales convention of the Loose Wiles Biscuit company was held here Jan. 6 at its new offices on 526 First street SE. Seventeen Iowa salesmen attended as the local manager A. J. Scudder announced plans for 1934 and noted that fifty six Cedar Rapids grocers became Sun shine Biscuit dealers since the Cedar Rapids office opened on Nov. 5.
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