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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1947
Page
16
Sewing circle offers patterns for tiny girls including a puff sleeved dress with narrow ruffling a sunsuit with simple pieces and a slip and panties. Pattern No Natto comes in sizes months 1 2 and 4 with fabric requirements. Also yoked top and gored skirt pattern No 135 for ages 11 18 13 14 16 18 with yardage needs. Send your order to the circle now.
Questions cover a Tennessee governor who led Cherokee nation, ancient Egyptian worship, Old Faithful water discharge, Liberty Bell lip circumference, lightning bolt thickness, US time zones, longest railroad, city land areas, fish watching fishermen, cement hardening underwater. Provided answers: Los Angeles and New York areas. yes fish see near shore when water calm. cement hardens via chemical reaction both underwater and in air.
The text lists items: The Answers 1 Sam Houston. 2 Yes. They worshipped a scarab beetle on tombs and jewelry. a About 15 000 gallons. 4 Twelve feet. From the thickness of a hair to five inches in diameter. 6 Four Eastern central mountain and Pacific 7 In Russia from point to point the Trans Siberian railroad is approximately 8 000 miles long including branches.
India’s Chamber of Princes holds a Delhi meeting with 121 royal members each saluted on arrival by a guns salute indicating rank. The total nears 1,500 shots, requiring a full week to fire.
Boxing lore centers on Tony Zale and Rocky Graziano leading a yearly Chicago ring party after a 1946 New York party. The piece traces great middleweight legends, praising Dempsey Fitzsimmons Ketchel Greb Walker and the enduring appeal of the Zale Graziano rivalry and its dramatic 1940s battles.
Republican leaders hail Truman veto of Knutson Taft tax cut as defeat for tax reform while Democrats praise warned inequities and finance policy. Nonpartisan appraisers cite four GOP missteps. farmers seek more farm relief and TVA fertilizer battles loom. Hinshaw bill aims to curb SEC reach. fairgoers face admission tax, and Wallace speeches draw large crowds amid peace focus. Senate aid cuts threaten small airport funding as fertilizer prices and production become key farm issues.
Pattern 650 offers pineapple style doilies with lacey elegance and stitch directions. Price listed as 20 cents. Send orders to the stated recipient.
The famed novelist Balzac, famed for reading people, surveys a child's writing in a copybook. When told the handwriting belongs to the boy, Balzac concludes the child is slovenly and profoundly stupid. He realizes the book is his own from youth and retreats in embarrassment.
Worn-out cords should be discarded if unreparable. Use a tray to carry dishes to save steps. Fold stamps and insert waxed dividers to prevent sticking. Make colorful bells by layering stiffening between ribbons and sewing edges. Rubber washers dampen motor vibrations. store curtains without starch to avoid insect attraction. sprinkle cornmeal on rugs to lift embedded dirt.
Collier's notes a festival at the Church of La Compania in Santiago Chile on December 8 1863 when thousands of yards of flimsy material and 20000 oil lamps fed a blaze. In three minutes the interior became an inferno as lamps toppled spilling blazing oil on the congregation. Of about 3000 worshipers present most were women and 2500 died.
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