High School Girls Display Christmas Gifts Thursday
High School girls plan a Thursday afternoon display at the school featuring food items such as fruit cakes plum puddings cookies mince meat candies and stuffed dates to raise funds for the home economics department. A separate exhibit will show nonfood gifts created by Miss Hena Miller and Miss Edith Cole’s sewing classes including luncheon sets buffet covers dresser sets towels handkerchiefs and aprons.
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Hena Miller
Edith Cole
Miss Cole
Library notes on Christmas material and readers picks
The library provides a selection of Christmas books and readings. Key titles include The Book of Christmas edited by Mubie, Brand's Popular Antiquities, Schauffler's Christmas, The Story of the Christmas Tree, and a Jesus Christmassy poetry collection. Notable short story volumes include Christmas Stories by Jacob Wiis, Butler the Thin Santa Claus, Dickens Christmas Stories, Hughes Christmas picks, Locke Christmas Mystery, and Van Dyke Christmas works. Children's entries feature Snow A Hundred Things a Girl Can Make and other holiday titles.
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Mubie
Brand
Schauffler
Alouit
Butler
Santa Claus
Dickens
Fox
Ionesore
É Hughes
Hughes
Budlong
Locke
McCarter
Richmond
Parkington
Beasley
VanDyke
Sad Shepherd
sWanDyke
Min
Wiggin
Old Peabody Pew
P Wvixein
Taras Winkins
New England
Children's
Among & Lake
Levi
Asbjornsen
Debts Due by New Year Custom in Japan Described
Miss Mabel Schaeffer notes Japan’s tradition of paying all debts by December 31, with stores closed for the first five days of the new year and bamboo and pine branches displayed for luck. She discusses schooling in Tokio, religion teaching, and the five year middle school, plus changes in gym and games education. The earthquake destroyed Miss Schaeffer’s home and school, but 300 girls returned to class on October 15.
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Japan
Mabel Schaeffer
America
Tokia
Miss Schaffer
Miss Schaeffer
Tokio
Y. We
Imperial Band
United States
The Way to a Man's Heart Date Candy Recipe
Three ingredient uncooked date candy combines chopped dates nuts and honey pressed into a pan then cut into squares. Other recipe uses dates eggs sugar baking powder nuts and a baked oblong sheet dusted with powdered sugar. Also ad for window glass from Burgner Bowman Matthews Lumber Co with contact price.
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Daisy Garvin
Dan Reed
Burgner- Bowman- Matthews Lumber Co
Spaghetti and Macaroni Dishes in Classic Home Style
A fragmented 20th century home cooking guide outlines simple methods for cooking macaroni and spaghetti. It details boiling with salt, draining, and serving with tomato sauces, cheese, or eggs, plus variations like meat stuffed casseroles and baked dishes, all described in period tone.
Conservation Brought Down to a Fine Point
A woman narrator discusses conservation across wars and meals, illustrating thrift with examples like using ice efficiently for punch and water in the freezer, and even pouring salt water on asparagus to kill weeds, sparking reactions about waste and packing practices.
Fads and Fancies at Lawrence in Light Fashion Notes
An attractive musician in Lawrence wears a wrist watch visibly above her stocking, a nuisance to her. Japanese silk lounging palients in Chinese girl style fashion appear in town. Women craft boudoir bandeaux for Christmas from satin ribbon with lace or baby ribbon accents. The piece closes with a note on breakfast foods.
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Lawrence
British cereal breakfast foods expand in England
London reports England to be introduced to wheat based breakfast foods produced from domestic wheat. A new company forms to make these foods for Britain and the continent as demand grows. Current imports are mainly from Canada with some U S content. Ulster government designates Hillsborough Castle County Down as official residence for the governor general the Duke of Abercorn.
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Mieke
Speghetti
London
Associated Press
England
Engandland
Canada
United States
Great Britain
Ulster
Belfast
Oacen West
Hillsborough Castle
County Down
Duke of Abercorn
Baron's Court
Kennedy Plumbing Co. Co
Miss Maclvor Heads K U Organization on the Hill
University of Kansas students form the Jay Jones organization led by Dorothy Maclvor with Margaret Wallace as vice president and Dorothy Blackmar as secretary. The group aims to promote athletic involvement while maintaining scholarship standards and mirrors Missouri University’s Campus Guts model.
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Miss Maclvor
K. U
Jay Jones
KuKu
Missouri University
Dorothy Macvor
Margaret Wallace
Dorothy Blackmar
Camp Fire Girls organize new groups in Lawrence
Thunukita Camp Fire met at Caroline Fortune's home to make Christmas boxes for Mercy Hospital, with scrapbooks and dolls. Two junior groups formed under guardians Vera Morven and Helen Marcel, naming officers and planning hikes and crafts. Camp Fire law and origins highlighted by Miss Morri son. New uniforms are available at the University book store.
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Thunukita
Caroline Fortune
Mercy Hospital
Kansas City
Vera Morven
Guardian
Lawrence Camp
Thunukith
F. A. Ferris
Helen Marcel
Douglas
Elizabeth Stapleton
Lucretia Douglas
Charlotte Long
Alice Gill
Mrs. Ris
Vermont Street
Grace Hazard
Bertha Hess
Virginia Downing
Ira Erwin
Sarah Owen
Nadine Morrison
Laure Adair
Miss Morrison
University
Watanapa
Sherbon Ranch
Odlock
Alice
Elizabeth Sherbon
Florence Brown Sherbon
Lilis Lester
Dorothy Shaad
Buhi Vistal Bari
Daisy Willis
Janet McKellar
Camp Fire
Kiwanis
Lawre
Lawrences
Lawrence
Kreack
Eet
Gold Chickens Spark Prospecting Fever in Sliven
In Sliven Bulgaria Turkish chickens reportedly produced gold nuggets inside their gullets prompting villagers to hunt for more treasure. A Turkish peasant delivered the birds to the market where Ivan Manolfi bought the supposed nuggets for 400 leva before selling them to a local goldsmith. Ivan quit his job to seek the source of the find while the mysterious Turkish peasant has vanished from the market.
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Sliven
Bulgaria
Associated Press
Ivan Manolfif
Ivan
Ivan Zh
Turk
Oman
Pinckney School News Highlights Art Toy Shop Props and Plays
A school column describes Mrs Jackman presenting a hand colored copy of Frank Duveneck’s The Whistling Boy to Pinckney, notes first grade toy shop activities with tools and craft, outlines a PTA Silk Industry program with several speakers, and recounts baseball, holiday scenes, and classroom projects. It also covers playground schedules, Christmas readings, and student note on The Man Without a Country by Edward Everett Hale.
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BR. C.jackman
Pinckney School
Frank Duveneck
Covington
Kentucky
Duveneck
Europe
John Singer Sarwent
London
Maxyne Noah
Edward Everett
Hale
Philip
United States
United Eaterh
Philis
Nolan
Aes
United
Ted
Prin
Leroy Metzlér
Public School Art Study Emphasized For Practical Life
The study of art in public schools is vital for practical life skills and livelihoods. It stresses mental and spiritual development alongside technical training to prepare students for work and personal growth.
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Library Notes
Anne
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Kellogg
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Carter
Alden
Naile
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Hall Cairns
Knockaloe
Varsity Annex
M. GC. Garber
Oklahoma
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National ‘Committee
Maentani
Gandy
Varsity
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Lynn
Makepeace
Ass’t
Hilma Powell Society
Jean Jackman
Lois Lawson
Claude Shook
Athletic
Ruth Kurtz
Ronald Bartleson Bus
Mgriennne
Edward McCain
Miss Highman
Ynay
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Elizabeth Brandt
Eugene Shores
Wilma O'Byrne
Jack
Kir
Betty
Jane
Santa ’Glans
Margaret N. Wheeler
Christias
Santa
Robert Newman
Simulis
Charles 1
Turin
Italy
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Antwerp
Belgium
Sir Anthény
Rubens
Pups
Sir Anthony
TBI
Samuel McKone
Pinckney Park
Pinckney
Quincy, GA
Central Park
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Tennessee
Hjway
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Quincy
Miss Kennedy
Miss Moore
Minda
Poimséttia
Star of
Bethleham
Hiss Lessin -Smith
Cimarron
Kans
Swensen
Riadolph
Kansas
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Knothole Gang
Pt Pal
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Keith Re
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Herbert ‘Alexander
Otto Barteldes
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Leia
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Nies
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