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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1946
Page
8
Sewing Circle Pattern No. 8009 offers sizes 10 through 20 with top and shorts options plus a skirt and yardage details. Due to high demand, customers are asked to mail orders to Sewing Circle Pattern Dept Chicago with 25 cents for each pattern and include size information.
Recipes for toppers with honey or maple syrup and whipped cream for baked apples. Birthday party hints suggest cupcakes with a candle for each guest. Care tips include removing varnish before lacquer and cleaning wax flowers with warm water and baking soda. Also guidance on treating scorched linens and shortening dresses with precise pinching and clothespins.
Colliers notes that the Stellers sea cow a 25 foot three ton aquatic mammal vanished from the Bering Sea coastlines within 27 years after discovery by Bering in 1741 due to extensive fishing and hunting by trading and scaling ships, leaving no survivors.
A monumental glass mosaic curtain in the National theater of Mexico City, installed in 1911, covers 280 square yards and contains nearly one million colored glass pieces. Weighing 27 tons, it was crafted by 20 workers over 15 months in Tiffany studios New York and is raised or lowered by hydraulic pressure in seven seconds.
A booklet titled Make Your Own Curtains provides straightforward directions to craft and hang curtains. It explains how to pull a cord to swish them open or closed and outlines material selection and mounting steps.
A string of old fashioned proverbs offers blunt advice and rustic wisdom. The quip about competition, wealth, female beauty, and empathy reflects a humorous moralizing tone typical of historical newspapers.
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