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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1948
Page
12
Miss Mabel McDowell of Pennsylvania State College teaches homemakers to achieve professional results by preserving grain, avoiding curved cutting on round surfaces, not stretching fabric, and using staylines. Staylines run just inside seams and are stitched with the grain to reinforce necklines, armseyes, shoulders, waists, and plackets.
A guide stresses not limiting space in bathrooms with full door clearance and movement room around fixtures plus specific clearance measurements and a layout method using cutouts. Separately California fish and game tags salmon striped bass and sturgeon in San Pablo Bay to assess dam impacts, with tagging by a gillnet boat and rewards for returns, aided by the San Francisco Tyee club.
The article discusses using mild flavored honey to freeze and flavor fruit, mixing honeys for best taste, and diluted honey application on fruit. It abruptly shifts to a naval note about a cruiser sunk in the Pacific, a key participant in early 1942 actions and bikini tests, then explains basic fluoroscopic exam principles and how x rays reveal internal anatomy.
Ruth Dowding of Washington visits sister Clare Payne in Preston this week. E J Harris leaves Sunday for Wheeling to attend a daughter’s wedding Friday. Dinner party hosts include Herman Schmicken tied to John Noble, Howard Harris, and E J Harris. Jeffrey Todd returns from Wilmington after a week with Layton Brown. Victor Griffith of Towson visits Preston. Community Club meets at Mrs. Hollis with Mrs. John McGuillauray assisting. Irvin LeGates visits Robert Stanton. Rieck and Sisk families noted for Tuesday and weekend plans.
Memorial poem recalling Elizabeth Frances Andrews who died November 14 1940. The family recalls her sleepless nights watching for her children to return home and keeping a light lit to ensure their safety as they grew.
The text recalls a mother's care and a final night beside her bed as the children gather around. The nurse or doctor confirms their safety, she smiles with the familiar tenderness, prays for their protection, and then rests in peaceful sleep. She is mourned by daughters Edith Howard Minnie Warren and Lelia Towers.
Hillsboro society pages list Mrs Joe Taylor of Easton visiting sister Bernice Sherwood and Mrs Oscar Clark of Denton visiting sister, plus several others from Denton and Port Deposit. Lt W Thompson of Fort Eustis spent weekend with family, and Mrs Cora Reese visited Mrs Fred Roe at Downes. Mrs Austin Eaton and Milford Kline were in Chester, while Rev and Mrs Wm H Revelle Jr and daughter Sue visited Ralph and Mrs Holland. Nearby trips included Mrs Wm Thompson and Mrs Barton Butler in Baltimore and Rooney family from New York with son Tommy.
Brown Thawley and children of Milford visited Sunday as guests of Mr and Mrs Howard Dadds, sharing a day of meals and conversation.
A broad list shows multiple marriage licenses issued in Delaware and nearby Maryland. Names include Willis C. Jenkins and Elizabeth V. Torbert, Lawrence W. Bailey and Elizabeth Rose, Russell C. Moore and Bertha Miller, and several other couples with ages and towns such as Lincoln, Bridgeville, Frederica, Bowers Beach, Cannon, Marydel, Denton, and Dover.
In a high school soccer game Greensboro faced Ridgely with goals by Sipple and Greensboro. Final scoring saw K Bennington and Ridgely also notch goals. quarter times noted and Stoops officiated the match.
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