Shirtwaist dress pattern offers smartness and versatility
The pattern 9942 presents a shirtwaist dress suitable for sports, office, and street wear in pin striped, checked, silk, or plain fabrics. It features a box plaited skirt, short sleeves, and long sleeves with a diagrammed sew chart. Order by sending 15 cents and writing name, address, size, and style number to Sewing Circle Pattern Dept in New York.
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Sewing Circle Pattern Department
West Eighteenth Street
New York
N. ZT
Why does your lazy son lie in the hammock all day
Dialogue fragments show family quarrel about meals and chores. A husband complains his wife is a cook. A quip about big news mocks sensational headlines. Senator Sorghum jokes about headlines.
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Senator Sorghum
March of Time probes Jim and Jean romance
In the panel Are Jim and Jean as thick as ever the hosts discuss the couple’s relationship. They quip that if anything changes it’s for the better, noting their continued closeness and banter.
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Jim
Jean
Story of silver through ages and world nations
A sweeping look at silver's long history from ancient tableware to noble regalia, noting Greek spoons, the Apostle spoons, and evolving knives and forks. It traces silversmiths in Newburyport, colonial craft, Mexican and Peruvian silver influence, and modern makers like Gorham and Tiffany while highlighting cultural uses from Malay betrothal cups to Moorish and Indian traditions.
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National Geographic Society
Washington, D. C
WNU
EOE
British
Pliny
Christ
St. Peter
Wanamaker’s
New York
James Parn
Lytul
Winter Palace
Petrograd
Leningrad
Barcelona
Spain
Toledo
Isabella
Ferdinand
Italy
Mexico
Peru
Europe
Duke of Albuquerque
New England
William Moulton
Newburyport
Mass
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Moultons
Paul Revere
Anthony Towle
John Adams
America
Boston
Gorham's
Providence
Tiffany, Wallace, International
Helen of Troy
Cleopatra
Mark Antony
Nile
Orient
China
India
Guadalete
To Love To Live Edna May Finds Her Way
Edna May, who worshipped Harvard football star Henry Appleton since school days, learns his heart lies with a widow as a sensational newspaper announces the elopement. After a suicide attempt and a near death from a crane accident, she survives wiser, realizing life and self beyond romance.
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Edna May
Henry Appleton
Henry
Smith
Harvard
Edna Afay
Edna
May
Lot
Cambridge
Courge
Fisher and
Spruce
Morgan
A Weighty Subject Taft’s Size and Wit
The text recalls William Howard Taft as a large man with humor. A Washington correspondent once asked his weight. Taft replied no. He joked that Mr Reed claimed no gentleman could weigh more than 900 nouns, adjusted to 800.7. Taft at one time weighed over 200 pounds.
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Wiliam Howard Taft
United States
Washington
Eskimo Child Beliefs On Living Spirit Echoes
Fragmentary note describes Eskimo views of children as vessels for spirits of deceased grandparents. It mentions reverence for the child, superstition about spirits, and uses terms for mother and elder figures. Text appears garbled and speculative about traditional practices.
Find Happiness in Contentment
A group faces a bank failure and scandal that tests suburban life. Amid loss and upheaval one woman longs for a return to calmer days and the grandmotherly goal of peace. The piece argues contentment brings true happiness, quoting Schopenhauer on a life free from great pain.
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Schopenhauer
Bell Syndicsie
WNU
Humorous Geography Lesson From A Stretched Map
In a classroom a teacher points to a world map as Horace, facing north in Europe, says his right hand borders Asia while his left hand shows a wart, prompting a shy joke about geography and misaligned humor.
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Horace
Europe
Asia
Little Girl Healed After Psoriasis Treatment
Mrs Marie I Johnson of Omaha recalls a child's psoriasis inflamed face with swollen eyes and itching. After three months she used Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment per directions, reporting relief and recovery. Advertisement offers 25 cent to 50 cent products with samples from Cattar Laboratories Malden Mass. March 14 1934.
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Marie I. Johnson
Ames Ave
Omaha
Neb
Cattra
Dept. R. Malden
Adv
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