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Soups and Crafts Stir Nostalgia in a Frugal Fall
The column blends thrift soup guidance with a nostalgic catalog of 1978 needle craft patterns and supplies. It notes pattern 795 with transfers, pricing for patterns and airmail, and a mail-order address in New York. It then shifts to a rustic menu vignette describing beef soup with a butchered half cow and cheap farm vegetables for a hearty pot.
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Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Dept
High Point Enterprise
Old Chelsea Sta
New York
Needlecraft