Glass Partitions or Clever Screens Solve Living-Dining Room Problem
A 1955 McCall's Magazine piece recommends using glass and folding screens to merge living and dining areas in small homes. It details hinged wall screens, painted shutters, and modern materials like cork and mirrored glass, plus decorative glass shelves and even a glass aquarium as stylish room dividers.
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Portieres
Spinach Ring Luncheon Dish and Local Social News
A note describes a perfect luncheon dish of individual spinach rings with a poached eye in the center. Social updates list I Collins and sons Eugene and Jack, and Miss Dorothy and Harlie Armstrong as callers. Kanwaka Literary club met at Mrs. J S Emmett's home. Lecompton high teachers and seniors held a surprise party for Eugene Collins with music and refreshments.
Crowder and Collins Families Host Weekend Visits
Crowder Mr Reed of Lawrence visits at the home of Mr and Mrs Arthur Mayhew. Mr and Mrs Charles Boydston and daughter Susie with Miss Mary Shields of Lecompton and Miss Lorena Banks of Winter gather at the home of Mr and Mrs W S Collins Tuesday evening a week ago. Mr and Mrs J M Crowder were Friday dinner guests of Mr and Mrs J S Emmett of Kanwaka. Dr and Mrs Nelson and daughter Margaret of Lawrence with Misses Rachel Helen and Ruth Norwood of Lecompton spend Friday evening a week ago with Mr and Mrs W S Collins and sons Eugene and Jack. Mrs Clarence Hodson attends Riverside Farm Bureau unit meeting at the home of Mrs Owen Mitchell in Lake View Thursday afternoon. Mrs J S Emmett of Kanwaka and Mrs J M Crowder call on Eugene Collins Saturday morn.
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Clarence Hodson
Billie
Betty
Lawrence
Phil
Collins
Jack Myers
Brackett
W. I. Collins
J. M
Emmett
J. M. Crowder
V. J. Cramer
Lucille Rothwell
Dorothy Sanford
Rachel Norwood
Wesley Crady
Harlie Armstrong
Kansas City
Helen
May
Ruth Norwood
Lecompton
Edith Carr
Dorothy Armstrong
Vivian Baker
Manhattan
Harry Carr
Osgood Armstrong
Chester
David Perkins
Riverside
Henry Collins
W._I. Collins
Eugene
Jack
Harlin
Roy Harlin
C. C. Potter
Stacy
Collins Home
Helen, May
C. W. Orr
Fairbanks
Rogers
Walter Helstrom
Rollie Stanwix
Clayton
Gene
Richard
Patricia Ann
Russell Sehon
Charles Boydston
Hugh Wingfield
Chester Gibbons
Dale Force
Lewis and Son
Reed Swallow
Virginia Cofee
J. S. Emmett
Kanwaka
J.M. Crowder
Lecompton High School
W. S. Collins
Eugene Collins
Prof
W. J. Cramer
Harold Smith
Oma Bishop
Katharyn Weatherby
Madalyne McClanshan
Dorothea Sanford
Lucille
Reed
Arthur Mayhew
Susie
Mary Shields
Lorena’ Banks
Winter
Nelson
Margaret
Rachel
Riverside Farm Bureau Unit
Qwen Mitchell
Lake View
Willow Springs and area notes and a fatal highway crash
The passage records residents from Lecomp ton Winter Willow Springs and nearby Big Springs with names listed, mentions a new sand table at Stony Point sixth to eighth grades, and notes George Van Hosen helping build a site with D A Wray. It also covers baptizing at Daniel Beckley pond, John Churchbaugh of High Prairie as applicant, Elmer Flory visiting from Sawyer Kansas, plus a fatal highway crash near Newton Kansas where 15 year old Misa Ellen Zerger died when her brother’s car struck a gasoline truck.
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George van Hosen
Willow Springs
D. A. Wray
Anna Cripe
Ernest
Daniel Beckley
John Churchbaugh
High Prairie
Elmer Flory
Sawyer
Kan
Newton
Misa Ellen Zerger
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Journal-World
Hills Bros Coffee and assorted groceries sale ad
Frills Bros. offer 1 lb Hills Bros Coffee for 26 cents. Raisins and Prince Albert tobacco listed with low prices. Various branded items such as Lhasa and Hershey products appear with small price tags.
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C. Frills Bros
Hills Bros
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Rothwell
Elsie Kellogg
Cecil Welcher
Robert Walters
Riley Goff
David Pasley
Gilbert Sims
Glenn Sims
Lawrence Cree
Big Springs
Stony Point
Ernest Wray
Unmire
Crisco
Raisins
Issigarr
Prince Albert
Lhasan
Hershey
Ralph Pine
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