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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1944
Page
8
An apron pattern titled Crocheted Apron That Does Attract the Eye explains a double crochet option and notes quick, inexpensive construction. It warns of longer filling times due to high demand and wartime conditions and directs readers to send orders to the listed address.
Befana, sweeping her threshold, follows the Wise Men to Bethlehem bearing a seed and a straw doll from her past. She misses the guiding Star and risks never finding the Christ Child. In Italy Epiphany Eve gifts gifts to children echo Befana and Babouska legends amid Christmas longing and broken dreams.
The Army Exchange Service launches its Christmas shopping drive as the largest Santa Claus, offering gift suggestions for overseas soldiers and families. Catalogue items span perfumes, jewelry, toys, books, luggage, and candy, with orders last year reaching 360,000 and projections of 1.5 to 2 million this year.
A 40-year-old woman in New York stood on a busy subway platform peeling bills from a thick roll and tossing them to a crowd with phrases A Merry Christmas Have lots of luck. Police ruled she could spend her money as she wished but her method caused disorder.
Before electric lights, men kept Christmas spirit indoors with becandled trees holly sprigs gifts and greeting cards. Then projector lamps for outdoor flood and spot lighting arrived making the Yule Spirit visible outside as the tradition grew.
Several modern collector watches took up to eight years to design and produce and cost as much as $15,000. Collier's notes they include twelve time and calendar dials and meteorological instruments such as a thermometer hygrometer barometer and altimeter plus celestial charts showing hour by hour positions of visible constellations.
A humorous exchange explains how under an OPA order the old five cent cigar becomes seven and a half cents, with claims it saves smokers 50 million annually by avoiding higher prices for past nickel and dime cigars. The dialogue touches matches, wartime controls, and consumer confusion.
Ruth Wyeth Spears presents a guide to crafting miniature doll house furniture. It highlights upholstered chairs, a glamorous bed with headboard, a dressing table with stool, and nursery pieces from common on hand items. The note describes patterns 374 and 272 with dimensions and illustrated directions, priced 16 cents each, ready to mail order.
A man bursts into the police station at midnight claiming his wife is missing since eight this morning. The sergeant asks for details, and the man describes the brindle bull terrier that accompanied her, noting weight, markings, and a small ear nick. The sergeant responds, “That’ll do! We’ll find the dog.”
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