Ranger prefab home blends budget price with custom features
A 1954 Ranger prefab house designed by Charles Goodman for Lafayette Inc targets buyers with tight budgets. Priced around 12 000 to 13 000 dollars, it showcases air conditioning, a washer dryer alcove, extensive glass walls, grooved plywood panels, a large outdoor living space, and plywood parquet flooring.
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Kay Sherwood
NEA
Lafayette, Inc
Charles Goodman
Washington, D. C
Ranger
Meat and potato cake from Meriden area readers note
A farmhouse recipe for meat and potato cake using beef potatoes and nonfat dry milk is shared with readers. The method includes bread cubes onions salt pepper and two meat layers baked then topped with potatoes and lightly broiled. Tomorrow's dinner menu features stew tomatoes okra cabbage rolls applesauce cake and beverages.
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Meriden
Conn
Trim Down Heavy Arms
Alicia Hart offers fashion and exercise tips for teens to reduce heavy upper arms. Suggests avoiding sleeveless dresses until arms slim, with drills like daily arm shakes, hard slaps, and a gym class routine of 12 rapid arm movements from shoulders to sides.
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Alicia Hartner
Vogue
Crochet Table Cloth Pattern Advertisement
Advertisement for pattern 720 crochet cloth in Mercerized Cotton. Details include double strand 72 inches, single 46, center piece 32 inches, No 30 cotton. Mail twenty five cents per pattern plus five cents for first class mailing to Middletown Ohio Journal Needlecraft Dept. 178 Needlecraft Dept P Q O Box 169 Old Chelsea Station New York 11 NY. Print name address and zone. Ten new designs available.
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Middletown
Ohio
Needlecraft Dept. P. QO
Old Chelsea Station
New York
N. Y
Memo To Too-Neat Fathers House Is Home First
Ruth Millett reflects on a reader letter praising fathers who value a warm home over a spotless house. The writer contrasts a grandparental, lived-in home with a rigid, perfectly neat one, noting children prefer grandparents who allow play, clutter, and freedom. The piece honors patient, understanding fathers who prioritize home warmth.
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Dad
Mary Haworth Column Solves Son's Marriage Dilemma
A mother seeks Mary Haworth's counsel as friction grows between a father and son over marriage and a potential business venture. Haworth suggests the 32 year old should decide for himself, questioning parental pressure and urging independence. The piece frames Tom's autonomy as key to resolving family tensions.
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Mary Haworth
Tom
C. F
Dad
Big girl baby caps fashion trends sweep the country
Big girls are stepping out in baby caps this winter with nursery style inspiration. The trend started in Paris, moved to New York, and is poised to spread nationwide. Caps are crocheted or knit in white or pastel angora and can be styled for date wear with pearls or jewel trim.
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Paris
New York
Household Quick Fixes From Common Kitchen Items
A list of simple home tips includes removing onion odor with celery, preventing milk curdling by adding baking soda, soothing teething babies with chilled apple slices, and polishing leather shoes with frequent, initial polish to prevent scuffs.
Dangerous itch mite disease and EXSORA treatment claim
A dubious ad asserts the itch mite disease is highly contagious and lifelong unless stopped. It promotes EXSORA as an instant killer of the itch mite, claiming a three day treatment available at all drug stores with the word Adv.
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