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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1912
Page
7
Whimsical gingerbread ideas include figures of animals and Santa with colored icing. German bakers craft festive cakes, and fruit accents may please children and elders. Recipes cover Gingerbread, Fruit Gingerbread, Spiced and Soft Gingerbread with detailed ingredient lists and baking steps.
The article suggests making a steel crochet tool to lift missed threads and ripping out stitches quickly. It advises repairing carpet holes with tight crochet stitches in matching yarn and adding final loops to imitate the carpet weave. A worn stocking over a shoe tree helps visualize fit for darning.
A 1912 tale tells how Zeb White wins Sue by challenging her stern father Babbit in a rough, timed wrestling match. After three days rest and renewed effort, Zeb defeats Babbit and marries Sue, carrying her home on his back as she bakes mince pies. The tale celebrates old fashioned courtship and kinfolk approval.
Nearly all evening wraps are large mantles worn tight at the legs and full at the hips. Velvet coats appear in a straight shape. The May Manton pattern offers sizes fourteen to eighteen for girls. Send 10 cents and coupon number 7657 with stamps for mail delivery.
A home carpenter can easily craft a decorative sewing stand from a cheese box and simple wooden strips. The dialogue mentions bigamy, with Efie-Papa noted as a man with more than one wife. Puna questions it, suggesting not always.
A women’s world feature suggests dressing dolls in sweaters with a tiny Teddy bear for a festive gift. It encourages handmade gifts, notes the joy of giving, and recalls origins of greeting cards by Mr. Dobson in 1844. Also mentions holiday games, card traditions, and Christmas verses with a light editorial tone.
This excerpt describes crochet projects for young girls including a heavy cotton party bag with decorative corners, a handkerchief case sewn from crochet silk, and a scented square bottom support. It notes variations using Irish crochet motifs, edgings, and a practical travel bag concept with ribbon ties.
The town ordered all boys to sit on three pews in the meeting house with William Lord overseeing the pulpit area. The Stratford beating man was told to supervise orderly conduct among youths. In Durham misbehaving boys faced public punishment after services. Seats were removed from pulpit stairs and boys placed in a gallery pew. A boys pew existed in Windsor into 1945.
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