Blackburn College Kitchen Plan Reported by Visitor
A visitor describes Blackburn College's plan for student self help in cooking and domestic science. He notes foreign and local students working three hours per day in a communal kitchen, the program’s costs, and the college’s emphasis on practical training alongside academics.
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Doctor Hinkem
Herres
Hodson
Mackin College
America
Jay
Japan
Blackhburn
Hin
Persia
Chicago
Blackbern
Royal marriage policy and intermarriage limits across royal families
Fragmentary notes discuss British royal marriage rules during wartime, highlighting restrictions on alliances with German and other foreign royals. It mentions presbyterian or Protestant status, potential revocation of rights, and the impact of the war on dynastic plans and future royal marriages. The piece references German and allied royal lines and the political sensitivities of unions.
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Briain
Germany
Youth's Compan: Wartime Fear and Family Tension
A fragment from a World War II era work shows a family scene with fear and miscommunication as a convoy of memories surfaces. The speaker recalls bloodshed in Europe while a neighbor questions nerves and survival, revealing tension between youth and adults in wartime.
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Europe
Jay Hee
Tan
Women workers and officials highlighted in wartime roles
The report notes salaries for a policewoman and women employed as road workers in the Philippines, mentions a recruitment effort for a job through the Young Women's Christian Association in Los Angeles, and references a British golf player Mrs Gourney Welch visiting the United States due to the war, illustrating women’s varied wartime roles and travels.
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Louis
Younes Women’s Christian Association
Los Angeles
Oman
Mra Gourney
Soap and Ointment Ad Claims Purifying Skin Benefits
An advertisement extols a cleansing soap and healing ointment claiming to purify and beautify the skin under sun exposures. The copy includes testimonials and sample offers, with dubious claims and marketing rhetoric throughout.
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Hoeres
Adr
Woman’s Crowning Glory Hair Treatment Ad
An old time ad promotes La Cre ole hair product with a claim to enhance natural color. It targets women with streaked or gray hair and offers the product for sale at 1.00 dollars. The phrasing mimics a sensational style of the era.
Sunday golfer inspires odd oath and wordplay
A garbled recollection describes a Sunday golfer and a veering dialogue. Fragments mention a minister, vows, and a cryptic exchange about a town or service, with unclear attributions and no clear sequence of events.
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