Pattern 8654 invites a timeless shoulder-brightening jacket
This sewing pattern 8654 features a roll collar three darts at sleeve tops and a flattering broadened shoulder design for misses and women. Made in wool crepe flat crepe or silk print it includes a step-by-step chart and directions. Sizes 14 16 18 20 40 42 44 require yardage and contrasting collar fabric if desired. Send order to:
Portly man alarms boy with painted park seats
A portly gentleman settles in a park seat and, after a boy stares, learns the seats have just been painted. The boy warns that more may follow when the man gets up, hinting at a humorous misunderstanding.
Quiz on World Ceremonies and Language Trivia
This general quiz covers differences in Samoan island weddings versus typical ceremonies, a palindrome term, libel vs slander, a popinjay, largest Western hemisphere countries, water chickens, Franklin's schooling length, and whether front teeth are molars.
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Odd Couple Wedding Cake Memory and Palindromic Clues
The fragment lists quirky facts including a wedding cake ceremony, a palindrome, libel, a description of a “dude,” and a trio of countries by size. It also mentions water chickens in Florida and rail family traits, ages eight to ten, and dental tooth types.
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Canada
Brazil
United States
Around the House Tips and Cleaning Tricks
Practical home hacks include tinting ice with vegetable dyes for salad visuals, covering corners with cloth to ease oilcloth restoration, melting zinc on coals to vent soot, and weekly plant spraying with tepid water to reduce dust in living rooms.
Record of extraordinary magnet and other world facts
A compact roundup notes a sintered alnico magnet from a GE lab that lifts 200 pounds, a British museum long love letter of Queen Elizabeth’s courtier at 410000 words, Finland’s literacy rule before marriage, and El Piton peak on Tenerife casting a 150 mile shadow at sunrise and sunset.
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British Museum
el Piton
Tenerife
Canary Islands
Atlantic Ocean
Collier’s
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