Color contrast speeds sewing Dear Heloise
Reader shares sewing tip using two threads in needle one white and one black to keep stitches straight on dark fabrics. She leaves white thread tail for easy removal and pins hems before stitching. Also notes keeping shopping records and repurposing ice cream pails for storage and crafts.
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Knit a Cozy Cape Pattern 891 for Spring Fashion
Spring knit pattern 891 offers a worsted cape with ieaf panels in short or long length and fringe trim. Sizes 10 to 16 included, price 75 cents per pattern plus 25 cents for air mail. Send pattern requests to Laura Wheeler at The Middletown Journal Needlecraft Dept. in New York with name and address.
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Laura Wheeler
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Striptease coup in bridge play demonstrates trump extraction
The article explains a bridge hand where South uses a striptease coup to strip opponents of their low trumps. West leads hearts, South counters by winning, discarding, and overruffing to exhaust East and West of their trumps, leaving only the A and K of trumps for declarer and winning the hand.
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Real parents not worth it in search for roots
Dear Ann Landers prompts readers to weigh finding biological parents against adoptive ties. Letters recount mixed experiences from Worcester to Nassau and Madison to Cleveland, with cautions about secrecy, money, and emotional outcomes.
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Ann
Colorado Springs
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Dear Confused and Confident: Good Advice From Portland
A reader in Portland replies to a young person seeking real parents. The writer asserts the baby’s adoptive parents are the rightful ones and urges the seeker to stop searching. The exchange emphasizes gratitude to the family that raised the child and discourages reunion.
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Bahamas
Portland
Rapids Tamed at Whitehorse Rapids Amid Klondike Rush
The Whitehorse dam completed in 1958 tamed the dangerous Whitehorse Rapids once feared by Klondike gold rush travelers in 1898 offering safer passage for boats and scows though many lives were lost during the earlier perilous crossing.
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Klondike
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