Heloise Advice and Homecraft Hints from the Era
Readers share thrift tips and homemaking hints from scraps to sewing machine bags. Donations to church and charities resurface fabric scraps for aprons dresses and bags. A DIY egg dish uses bologna cups with eggs for a quick breakfast.
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Heloise
Salvation Army
Frances Wardbough
Inexpensive wheel substitute fixes a sewing machine bobbin
A reader explains she used a rubber wheel from a model car to replace a worn bobbin wheel on a sewing machine. The substitute worked miraculously, and she wonders if replacements are available in stores. The note is from Mrs. C. J. Vails.
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Heloise
Marge Linebaugh
Fire Follows Gun Battle At Grapevine
In Grapevine Texas three would be burglars invaded Stockstill Shooters Supply. A gun battle with owner Jess Stockstill destroyed the shop and set ammo ablaze. One suspect died at the scene another was jailed and a third hospitalized with burns and a superficial gunshot wound.
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Grapevine
Tex
Jess Stockstill
John Peter Smith Hospital
Fort Worth
Thoeni Wins In Sicily Giant Slalom Contests
Italian world cup champion Gustavo Thoeni dominated the three day Etna Skiing Contest in Catania Sicily, sweeping the men's Giant Slalom title as the event concluded Sunday.
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Thoeni
Catania
Sicily
UPI
Gustavo Thoeni
Italy
Polliwogs and Community Notes Spanning Texas Towns
Ann Cusack fixes sixth antique trunk for granddaughter Kathleen Cu sack and invites support for Senate Bill 230 addressed to Honorable William N. Patman. Howard Bennett plans April 1 housing opening as Bill Nami carries an insurance check after a highway mishap. Lyndie Cusack returns to Lubbock classes with friends Diana Brown J. B. Brown Terry Shackleford and Diana Love visiting from San Antonio Cuero locals praise town architecture during a visiting period.
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Ann Cusack
Kathleen Cusack
Lyndie Cusack
Lubbock
Diana and
J. B. Brown
Terry Shackleford
TCU
Diana Love
San Antonio
Restoring Historic Fronts and Home Wood Work Plans
A reader advocates restoring old frontages rather than modernizing exteriors. Mentions Kaye Tarkington Sharon Steen aiding Bob Pickenses in interior wood work at their recently purchased home from the Aldriches near Cuero. Also lists birthday wishes and a note on Frankfurters for cooks.
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Kaye Tarkington
Sharon Steen
Bob Pickenses
Riley Aldriches
Henry Shrapnel and his fragmentation shell
British Army officer Henry Shrapnel developed an early 19th century artillery shell that shattered into small fragments to serve as an antipers onnel weapon.
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Henry Shrapnel
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Martha
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American Legion Civic Center
Calvin Webb
Carpenter
Pilot Club
Cueko
House Mere
Jester Frere
Pree
Cuero Lodge
Rothers
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Cuero, Texas
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Ring Features Syndicate, Inc
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William N. Patman
Capitol Building
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Howard Bennett
Bill Nami
Genevieve
Nursery
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Bill Holzapfel
Avis Ann Cochran
Frank
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Tel-A-Win CO
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Nathan Post Lumber Co
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Arkia Gas
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