Cape Cod style home nods to Bay Colony origins
Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Woodruff plan a Cape Cod inspired residence at 1617 Alabama Street. The two bedroom story and a half cottage features a recessed front door, white clapboard exterior, vast living room with fireplace, built in cabinetry, and a west facing screened porch. Interior echoes colonial details with period wallpaper, oak and mahogany furnishings, and a gas furnace.
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Cape Cod
Alabama Street
Laurence Woodruff
Governor Winthrop
Cooking Hints and Florida Gasoline Report
Reserve leftover sweetened spice as vinegar from bottled pickles and use it in place of vinegar and sugar in salad dressings. Onion juice blends flavors better than chopped onions. To obtain juice press against the onion and through a grater. Cooked potatoes store poorly in warm weather. keep them in a coldest part of the ice box. Wilted vegetables crisp with cold water after several hours. Freshen coconuts by steaming a dry coconut for about 45 minutes. The Florida comptroller reports March gasoline sales volumes the greatest since March 1926.
Costumes borrow from South Seas for exotic summer lounge wear
Paris fashion notes describe Hindu dhoti inspired gowns by Schiaparelli and pareos by Heim shaping this summer beach trend. Designers move toward skin exposure limits with tailored swing styles, trousered cuts, and mixed fabrics from duck to linen plus vibrant accents.
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Adelaide Kerr
Paris
South Sea Island
Tahiti
Schiaparelli
Heim
Jersey
Mainbacher
Lelong
Lawrence girl receives recognition for recipe
Miss Martha M. Hood of 1505 Crescent read has been awarded a certificate of recipe endorsement by Better Homes & Gardens for her Oat Cakes recipe. The Scottish inspired oat cookies are described as nutty and ideal for afternoon tea.
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Martha M. Hood
Crescent Read
Better Homes & Gardens
Miss Hood
Cottons Awaken New Interest for Summer Patterns
Fashion patterns and sizes offered for summer wear with multiple style numbers. Details include yardage by fabric width, bust sizes ranging from 14 to 46 inches, and pattern prices. Orders requested by stamps or coin, with mailing address and size clearly stated. Journal-World Pattern Department, 160 Fifth Ave New York.
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Journal-World
Pattern Department
Fifth Ave
New York
Beachwear of 1885: lounging coats and sheer beach wraps
The description notes designs from 1885 including tailing long beach coats in printed chintz and tawling lining for lounging on the sands, paired with shorts ending above the knee and colorful shirts, jackets, or bare-backed chintz dresses and capes.
Raspberry Sherbet and Currants Conserve Recipes
Home style dessert and preserve notes from readers include Raspberry Sherbet with sugar syrup whipped cream and egg white folding, Currants Conserve using currants oranges raisins and citrus, and Prize Pineapple Cream Pie with pineapple pulp and meringue. Contributors include Mrs. Florence Fearing and Mabel Miller with addresses.
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Mabel Miller
R.I. St
Ed Houser
E, 19Th St
Appetizers for Eight and Cocoa Drink Ideas
Recipe notes describe making cucumber boats from 14 inch cucumbers with a filling of chopped ham pickles onions green peppers and salad dressing plus salt. Also includes a cocoa drink method using cocoa sugar water and milk with instructions to chill and serve for a week.
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Pimientos
Ill
Talks on Hardening Babies For Tougher Upbringing
BROOKE PETERS CHURCH argues against excessive bodily luxury for infants. She urges Spartan simplicity from birth to foster hardiness, noting that over-warming and over-coddling dull mental processes and later vitality. The article shifts to a separate note on English food consumption with rising per-person meat, fruit, and banana figures.
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Brooke Peters
Sardine and Crab Canapes and Mayonnaise Puffs Menu
A collage of recipe fragments describes sardine and crabmeat canapes, toast circles with olives, and mayonnaise puffs. Instructions cover bread and cracker bases, spreading mixtures, rolling, chilling, and baking times. The text shifts to a Kansas G A R member count in 1986 and an obscure NC 1913 law about age.
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Kansas G. A. R
H. J. Merrill
Wichita
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France
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Prof. Johnson
Ralph Varnum
Plymouth Congregational Church
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Bernice Hunter
Walter Varnum
William Robinson
Mary Dean Holle
Topeka
Florence Fearing
Maple St
England
General Assembly of
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Gay Bag Ang
Ireland
Captains Creek
Oliver Neis
Wellsville
Sam Neis
Clarence Hausman
Clearfield
Philip Gabriel
Paul
Friends Bible College
Haviland
Prairie Center Friends Church
George Matt
Maple Grove
Esper
Prairie Center
Alonzo Ambler
Mildred Louise
William Edelbrock
Lila Jean
Eudora
John White
Loren
Henry Collins
Harold Myers
Excelsior Springs
Myers
Carl Kurtz
Carl Vernon
Raymond
Howard Caviness
Betty
Mary
Alvenia Neidemeier
Kansas City
Barbara
Lois Reidenbo
Sidney
Philip Lefmann
Lena Lefmann
Roger Lee Bales
Homer Baies
California
Charlie Reed
Riley Smith
Allen Burgett
Roe Burgett
Manhattan
Harry Grady
Harry, Jr
George Patton
Pat- Ha
Yonell
Mise Katherine Epp
Eugene Burgett
John Denham
John Snyder
Snyder
Hall
Lees Summit
Herbert Henderson
J. A. Reynolds
DeSoto
Betty Jeah Lescher
Mildred Louise Ambler
Debs
Queen Mary’s Court
United States
Queen Mary's Court
London
Mise Anne Alston
Atlanta
Misa Betty Timmons
Kas
N. H. St
Studebaker
American Express
Peoples State Bank
9Th & Mass
Lawrence Building & Loan Association
Federsl Home Loan Bank
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