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Newspaper
Glen Rose Reporter
Location
Glen Rose, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1940
Page
7
A reader shares a homemaking note with tips on using gummed tape to fasten booklets in ring binders. The piece highlights sewing booklets by Mrs. Spears, five booklets in the series, and a request for 10 cents to order Book 5 with directions for 30 ideas.
A 1940s guide to seasonal meals offers ginger flavored roast beef tips, cakes with jelly, fruit pies, ring molds, and baked ham with stuffing. Recipes include Apple Pie, Golden Carrot Ring, Stuffed Ham Steak, Dutch Cream Cookies, and Date Butterscotch Pudding with serving ideas. Household hints by Eleanor Howe invite readers to request her book from Chicago.
Practical household advice covers washing machines sweeping with open windows to keep dust off woodwork making peanut butter easier with hot water and salt adding raisins for lunches removing basting threads annual shade cleaning watering potted plants and eradicating witch grass. Cultivating with a wheel hoe weekly or more often keeps weeds in check and stresses timely garden care.
Two places on opposite sides of the earth are antipodes. The U S Secret Service was established during the Civil War era in 1865 to combat counterfeit currency and protect the president.
A set of general knowledge items with answers covering misanthropy duration of ephemera location of earth center and political process. Includes questions about the origin of the Don't tread on me motto the century start date lachrymal glands and Brazil language status.
A collage of odd observations notes Chinese and Japanese population shares in the U.S. with women’s percentages, a Turkish French baby born on a British ship in American waters may claim any nationality, and U S Army homing pigeons trained to navigate and locate their theme on moving trucks.
Barbara Bell Pattern No 1209-B designed for sizes 12 to 20 with busts 30 to 38 inches provides yardage: 4 1/2 yards for long sleeves and 3 1/2 yards for short sleeves of 39 inch fabric without nap in size 14 (32). Send orders to the listed address.
The list covers points from geography and history. It notes antipodes and the North Pole as geodetic anomalies. It mentions a civil war date July 2 1864 and describes a person labeled as a hater of mankind. It refers to early naval flags and a treaty provision about senators present. It also states January 1 1901 and a reaction of shedding tears. It asserts Portuguese as Portugal’s language in Brazil, the largest South American state, as a former Portuguese colony and the only Western Hemisphere country with that language as the predominant tongue.
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