Cedar Favorite: Western Red Cedar Dominates Northwest Indian Wood Use
The Pacific Northwest Indians favored western red cedar for siding and paneling lumber. They carved cedar logs into totems, hollowed them for pirogues, and used bark for clothing. The text also oddly mentions saving tissue boxes for car litter.
Orphan's shirts and jealousy in Ann Landers column
Dear Manny and readers discuss a wife’s “orphan” laundry mystery and a jealous husband. The column offers light advice on handling gifts, public attention to medicine, and violin contest nerves with practical, plain terms.
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Connie Kar's weight loss tale amid wartime diet regimen
Hollywood star Connie Kar discusses her self imposed wartime diet choices to stay slim for films. She describes weighing 160 pounds at five foot eight and losing 20 pounds by avoiding sweets starches and heavy foods while noting emotional support from family helped sustain the plan.
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Rye Bread Sticks From An Interesting Yeast Recipe
The article shares a baking recipe for rye bread sticks with yeast. Ingredients include warm water, active dry yeast, sugar, salt, caraway seeds, butter, rye flour, and all purpose flour. The method describes dissolving yeast, mixing, kneading, rising, shaping into 6 inch ropes, rising again, brushing with butter, sprinkling caraway, and baking at 400 degrees for 15 to 20 minutes.
Spring sewing and cooking notes from a 1940s issue
Price details for anne adams printed pattern 4501 listing sizes from 34 to 48 and fabric yardage for size 36. Also a family supper chicken loaf recipe with ingredients and step by step cooking directions. Includes advertising for a sewing pattern catalog and instant sewing book with roasts carving tips.
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