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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1947
Page
32
Potato salad offers many preparations from plain boiled potatoes dressed with vinegar salt and pepper to versions with eggs celery cucumber carrots and other items. The recipe shows 6 medium potatoes with vinegar oil and parsley and a variant using 2 cups diced potatoes 1 cup celery 1 cup beans beets and seasonings.
Young readers are invited to order pattern 4765 featuring a playsuit overalls jacket and visor for both boys and girls in sizes 6 months to 5 years. Includes illustrated instructions and testing for fit with simple sewing. Send 25 cents and address details to The Cedar Rapids Gazette Pattern Dept. Chicago 80 Illinois.
A concise recipe fragment instructs mixing ingredients such as salt pepper onion juice and salad oil with vinegar into a thick smooth sauce. It is served on shredded lettuce with diced cucumber as a fresh salad topping.
London report on Louis Mintz who runs an outsize fashion line for larger women. He staged Britain’s first outsize show featuring models with hip measurements from 44 to 60 inches and bosoms from 40 to 49 inches, claiming millions of potential customers in England.
A fashion show highlights oversized garments using long lines and utility fabrics to flatter full figures. Mintz, producing over 2000 dresses weekly, features zippers, waist belts, and elongated backs to downplay bulk, while critics note the Board of Trade offers no extra allowances for larger sizes. Big girls wait amid a paradoxical display of inclusive dressing.
Readable listing of kids sun suits with two pants sets and sunbonnets, a Briggs Household Account Record Book, a blue granite canner, a doggie set and dog range, napkins, napkins, brushes, a garden hose with first quality brass fittings priced at 8.25, plus misc 15 to 29 cent yard items.
The remark suggests that nobody loves a fat girl while nearly all of Mintz's mammoth models wore wedding rings, indicating a complex contrast between public perception and personal commitment.
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