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Newspaper
Moravia Union
Location
Moravia, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1936
Page
3
A Leisure-farmer in a large city asks hotel clerk about meals and receives a muddled schedule. The clerk lists breakfast, dinner, and supper with garbled times, prompting the farmer to ask what town he is going to. The piece mixes jokes on urban life and absurd dialogue from Houston Post style panels.
Advertises an inexpensive applique quilt pattern titled Pride of the Garden. Describes tulip motifs usable on scarves and pillows, includes complete instructions, yardage chart, bed size diagrams, patch placement guides, and suggests contrasting materials. Sent by The Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept., 82 Highth Ave, New York, NY.
Practical household guidance from Bell Syndicate offers advice on keeping dressings fresh with lettuce, avoiding water on leaves, delaying dressing until serving, and storing soaps for economy. It also covers papering rooms with selvage cutting and using a flour dusting to help frosting adhere to cake, reflecting a mid century home economics style.
WPA workers dug 12 feet under Slauson avenue drain in Los Angeles uncovering fragments of bones, two teeth, and vertebra parts along with an imperial elephant skull. The find suggests humans may have roamed southern California in the glacial epoch about 26,000 years ago.
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