Oldest of Quilt Designs Crazy Patch Noted
Ruth Wyeth Spears describes the crazy patch as an ancient yet modern quilt design. Embroidery stitches join silk patches while silk threads secure patches to the foundation. Spears offers patterns and directions for quilt blocks and a Sewing Booklet No. 2 with 42 stitches and other home crafts.
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Ruth Wyeth
Spears
Bedford Hills
New York
Friday the 13th superstition across cultures
The superstition around Friday the 13th is traced to various legends. Christians cite the Last Supper with 18 attendees and Jesus crucifixion on a Friday. Other myths link the day to Adam and Eve, with additional beliefs among Buddhists Brahmans and Romans.
The Best in Man Reveals the God Behind Nature
A reflective note on how the supernatural within humanity discloses the divine beyond nature rather than nature itself. The idea echoes Jacobi’s view that inner spiritual forces uncover God concealed by the physical world.
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Jacobi
Student Pilots Need Thorough Health
A physician notes aviation candidates face strict medical screening. Key disqualifiers include sleeping sickness or diplopia, syphilis, recurrent asthma, malaria, organic heart disease, tachycardia, kidney stones, and chronic ear inflammation. Some conditions can be treated to permit training, others cannot.
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James W. Barton
Air Service
Commercial Service
Samuel E. Brown
Rocky Mountain Medical Journal
Managing Return After a Stroke Doubts and Recovery
The article notes the anxiety after a first stroke and advises gradual return to normal life to delay a second stroke. It stresses open physician communication, not confining the patient to bed, and explains that recovery can be rapid in 3–4 weeks but may slow. It emphasizes small meals and blood pressure control to prevent another stroke.
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O. C. Perkins
New York State
Doan
Tailored front button coat pattern No 8605 for 34 to 48
The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept offers No 8605 a coat style on shirtwaist lines in wool crepe flannel or crepe. Includes long or short sleeves and matching or contrasting collar. Sizes 34 36 38 40 42 44 46 48. Requires 4 to 4½ yards fabric. Send 15 cents plus name address style number and size to Chicago.
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Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
W. Wacker Dr
Chicago
Ill
Always Something Worse Hillbilly Joke Passage
A hillbilly visiting a Nebraska farmer laments misfortune after the farmer complains of cholera among hogs. The mountaineer retorts that where he comes from things are worse, hinting at harsher local trials and rural hardship in a concise, humorous exchange.
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Nebraska
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