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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1932
Page
8
A Lawrence city survey shows beauty parlors offering temporary platinum or gold looks. Stylists warn against bleaching long term, noting it harms roots and texture, while color rinses provide short lived results. Mount Oread trends mark ash blondes and henna tones as popular among students and town residents.
The wet landslide in Finland shows 59,190 votes for wets amid a blizzard, with unexpectedly low female turnout. The piece argues women, bearing the world’s moral burden, can curb alcohol’s harm as winter hardship and poverty persist in northern communities.
An advice piece counsels parents on handling a child’s use of bad words by staying calm and avoiding reinforcement. It notes that interest can fuel repetition, that swearing may be a passing phase or peer influenced, and that ignoring or calmly setting limits helps. The column then shifts to home crafts, detailing affordable handmade bed coverings using rayon satin, satin, and felted trims with decorative stitching and color choices for bedding ensembles.
The article notes winter comforters of rayon and satine brighten home furnishings. Women plan to renew interiors during long evenings, with many purchasing materials for comforters at a local shop. Some prepare items as Christmas gifts or for their own bedrooms to add warmth and style.
A quirky handwritten recipe fragment describes mixing minced meat with various ingredients then packing into jars. The note warns to allow mixtures to stand 24 hours before use and is signed Mrs. Guy at 1st Kentucky Street. Two months.
A historical recipe lists currants citron and candied peel with beef suet chopped apples and spices mixed with sugar molasses and citrus juices. Cider is added, then the mixture rests several days to blend and keep through winter. Route 2 Mrs James Denham.
Miss Grace Light, head of classical languages at a large New York City high school, notes rapid growth from 2600 to 4200 students by February. The 2 million dollar building was designed for 5500, requiring an annex next term. New York imposes state exams for high school pupils.
Paris reports a new Fifty-Fifty frock as a smart midwinter to spring transition outfit. Designs feature half-and-half detailing, varied sleeve styles, and lengths from afternoon to slightly longer than winter attire. Colors include pinky-beige silver grey coral red and bright blue with black accented by shell pink or ivory. Wools and satin in muted tones appear for casual and tea time wear.
A January Sunday menu lists roast pork with sweet potatoes buttered cabbage bread plum jam led lettuce and Tiquant dressing with fruit gelatin dessert and caramel cook coffer. A 5 pound joint of pork uses salt paprika flour and water. Bake in pan with damp cloth.
Fragmented text gives steps for oven roasting with water and lid, potato timing, and a dressing. It includes a separate bake and mix section for cookies with cream fat sugar vanilla and improvised ingredient strings. The writing interleaves overheated garbled phrases with concrete actions and vague dish names.
A fragmented scanned recipe page outlines Chili for Dinner with paprika and chili notes, and a Creamy Frosting recipe for a Sour Cream Chocolate Cake. It provides steps to brown beef, add vegetables, and simmer twenty minutes, plus a frosting method with sugar vanilla and a vinegar-based glaze. Contains stray line fragments about peach butter, beets, prunes, apricots, and horseradish additions.
Feather hats showcase late winter fashion with turquoise feathered bonnets. Mme Martinez de Hoz and Anat sponsors feature close toques with blue expresive keneifisher feathers and upright feather accents framing a black frock and veil.
Lace trimmed slippers and the latest style for party wear feature black velvet with high heels and colored lace accents to match gowns. A radio broadcast from Chanute Kansas via WREN described fashion notes and a dramatic earth sounding broadcast about a volcano and underground forces.
Independence residents held Christmas dinners and gatherings with relatives in Baldwin Lawrence and Ottawa. Families including the Moores Edwards Leach Bechtel Seele Jardon and Gale shared meals and visited, with schoolchildren performing a Christmas program and several calls and visits noted among local households. News notes also mention Chas Gale and others visiting, plus a brief sports update on Washington State College football players' final game.
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