New Look or No California Play Clothes Hold Favor
Southern California fashion house led by Louis Tabak showcases new spring play clothes focusing on criss cross separates, pedal pushers, shorts jackets and the divided skirt. Includes regatta red white blue ensembles, bold patterns, and a coat pattern 4793 with easy sew instructions. Pattern sales and Anne Adams Fall Winter book advertised with order details.
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California
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Tabak
Telegram Pattern Department
Long Beach
Anne Adams
Willie Willis and snuff in old town manners
A fragment notes Willie Willis asking how to tell what is right if it does not endure. It laments a change in social norms as gentlemanly habits like taking snuff fade from polite behavior.
Conserving Foods With Practical Kitchen Tricks From Old Times
Mildred I Frimary shares thrift tips for housewives seeking to retrench without sacrificing palates. Suggestions include repurposing muffins and biscuits, reheat methods, and simple desserts, alongside a note on city bred cotton fashion and renewed coat dresses for city life.
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Costa
It s Fun To Stay Young Healthy Vitality and Marriage
Advice from The Register and Tribune linking vibrant health to marital success. It argues a healthy wife eases financial and emotional strain, sustains partnership, and supports family duties. The piece urges self care, better humor, and honesty to preserve a loving image from the wedding day forward.
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the Register and “Tribune
Byndicate
Baby Smiles and Play Tools for Early Development
A guide on stimulating infants from birth through four months, detailing cuddling, vocal and visual play, gentle exercises, and age appropriate toys. It notes that smiles often appear around six weeks and suggests activities like rattles, colorful objects, and singing to engage a baby, with tips on when to use a playpen and how to handle bath or nap times. Includes a recruitment for pattern catalogs and baby toy notes from a 1948 newspaper insert.
Social tact guidance on handling compliments
A reader note advises responding with a gracious acknowledgment when complimented on dress. The wrong approach is to return the compliment in kind. The right approach: say "Thank you. I'm glad you like it!" and avoid immediate reciprocal praise.
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Duke
Favorite Songs for Children delightful nursery collection
A durable bound volume from Laoag Teach Press Telegraan Information Bureaus offers Lia nursery songs and singing games for children in kindergarten and primary grades. Includes words and music with key-appropriate arrangements and directions for games. Priced at twenty five cents, with coinage details and publication notes.
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Lia Nursery
Ponthitidh Arra
Laoag -Teach Press
Cheesccloth curtains promise easy home decor
A vintage note extols cheesecloth curtains as affordable, quick to craft. It suggests leaving white for kitchens or dyeing in yellow, green, or blue, trimmed with red rickrack. Starching before use is advised to help the fabric hold shape.
Sketchad Hair Brush in Leather Zipper Case
Vintage ad describes center professional style brush with pure bleached or unbleached bristles and satinwood Cocobolo back. Includes small nylon-bristle brush, lucite back, lucite comb in a simulated leather zipper case. Suited for upswept hairdos and training curls. marketed as a grand Christmas gift by Commeder, Street Fleet.
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ANGLE
Calif
Willie Willis
Foyti Thomas Wallace
Jack
Mildred I Frimary
Pte
Josephine Lowman
Ske He
Sife
Janice Carter
Pine
Siuce Wheeler
Laura Wheeler
Meyer Eldred
Register End ‘Tribunal Syndicate
Ben
Theos
United Time
Trestmer
Niblack System
West Seventh Street
Elaan
Cocobolo
Commeder
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