Women in China Shaping War to Postwar Industry
ADELAIDE KERR highlights Chinese women whose wartime work fuels postwar farming and industry. Miss Keung Mei-Yin improved flax into warm fabric aiding winter clothing, heads a Chungking factory with 300 workers, and Mrs Shen Lee-Yin crossbred wheat lines to double China's yields, with seed No. 28 widely adopted.
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Miss Tsai
Y.W.C.A
China
United States
Chungking
Keung Mei-Yin
Miss Beung
Keung
Shen Lee-Yin
Cornell
Miss Ruth Jarrell Paid Bridal Honor
Miss Ruth Jarrell receives a bridal courtesy hosted by Marie Roach and Frances Brown at 1123 Campbell Street. Two bridge tables mark the event with a corsage of pink roses and white chrysanthemums and prizes including perfume.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth Jarrell
Seibert Lockman
Marie Roach
Frances Brown
Campbell Street
Iris Aulbert
Elma
Ingo
Eastern Star Plans District Meeting Hearings
The Eastern Star meeting at Ba Temple Tuesday evening, chaired by Mrs. Kate Levext, welcomed visitor Mrs. Pauline Tea of Wilson Chapter 125. A district meeting is set for Greensboro on Saturday October 14. Mrs. Mildred Baker urged donations for the Oxford Orphanage Christmas boxes. Thirty eight members attended.
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Somer
The
Eastern Star
Ba Temple
Kate Levext
Pauline Tea
Wilson Chapter
Greensboro
Mildred Baker
Oxford
Mannly double breasted suit patterns for young children
An early 20th century advertisement details pattern 4544 two piece suit and overalls in sizes 1 to 4 with fabric yardage notes. It promotes pattern books from The Enterprises and Anne Adams Fall Winter book offering a free hat and muff bag pattern and lists the continental United States area and water areas.
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Enterprise
Anne Adams
Chinese women empower war-torn economy and field work
Miss Tsai notes free China produced amid scarce tools and rheumatic toil. She praises Mrs Tang Yu-Chen Tang, a Columbia graduate, for spinning seven threads at once. Tsai says women now lead technical and industrial work and will shape China after the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Miss Tsai
Free China
Tang Yu-Chen Tang
Columbia University
East West top on the board in a clever contract bridge play
In a dense bridge deal East’s foresight carried the table. South opened hearts to four by North with no further entries, West led clubs and spades were ruffed. East ducked and later squeezed West, securing top on the board for the East West pair via precise play and occasional defense.
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East
North
East- West
West
South
Betty Kerr Feted on 11th Birthday at Party
Betty Kerr marked her eleventh birthday at a Halloween themed party hosted by Mrs. George Kerr at 526 Denny Street. Guests enjoyed games, prizes, cake, ice cream, and homemade candies, receiving many gifts. Attending were Nancy Hoover, Martha Hoover, Wilma Ann Kearns, Barbara Russell, Mary Rose Morris, Zelda Stansbury, Carol Ann Kearns, Jane Kearns, Duane Best, Patricia Johnson, Anne Johnson, Roset Johnson, Betsy Ross Davis and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Kerr
Denny Street
Betty
Hallowe'en
Nancy
Martha Hoover
Wilma Ann Kearns
Barbara Russell
Mary Rose Morris
Zelda Stansbury
Carol Ann
Jane Kearns
Duane Best
Patricia
Anne
Roset Johnson
Besty Ross Davis
Port Washington Yacht Club Faces Beaching After Hurricane
A hurricane drove three yachts ashore at Port Washington Yacht Club after they left under their own power. The vessels, owned by former members who had switched clubs, piled against the water side porch with other wreckage. Pyrethrum sprays are widely used on dairy farms to deter flies.
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Port Washington
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Tsai Kwei
AYDS
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Main Drug CO
Main St
Lydia B. Co
Pinkham
Pinkham's
Lydia E. Pinkham
High Point
Myrtie's
Ofeus Mans
Continental
Akq
Betty Kerr
Dé Scholls
Yourtown
Penney's
Mirra-Line
U.S. Pat
Gay
Aters
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