Easy Smocking Trick From Ruth Wyeth Spears
A sewing note explains a honeycomb smocking method for dresses with gradual fullness. Begin at the center front tuck and baste outward, using colored thread. provide cautions on starting points and a short promotion for Spears Book 2 with 42 stitches and 32 pages.
Planes for the Allies and American War Production
General Hugh S Johnson argues for allies buying our advanced aircraft and explains the need to speed up tooling up in U S war production. He notes bottlenecks from skilled pattern and tool makers and discusses potential payroll or machine taxes to finance social legislation.
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Farley Moves to Confront Roosevelt Over Third Term
Washington column notes Jim Farley shifts from fence to anti third term stance and plans a showdown with President Roosevelt before the Chicago convention. It says Farley may denounce a possible bid publicly if no clear reply is given.
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Abe Lincoln's Firstborn A Laughing Daddy's Fear
A firstborn son arrives to tall Abe Lincoln and Mary and friends flood in with congratulations. Lincoln jokes he was scared the baby might inherit Marys one leg and his other, revealing a playful fear about the child's future.
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Pull the Trigger on Lazy Bowels and Pepsin-ize Stomach
Ad promotes Dr. Caldwell's Laxative Senna with Syrup Pepsin to relieve constipation and stomach discomfort. It claims Pepsin dissolves undigested protein in the stomach while the laxative stimulates bowels. Mentioned as a pleasant tasting family laxative for children.
We have committed the Golden Rule to memory
A brief quotation noting commitment to the Golden Rule attributed to Edwin Markham.
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Household Hints On Cleaning Cooking And Care
A series of practical tips cover safe vacuum use avoiding metal debris, making a warm fruit sauce for ice cream with jam and orange juice, mashing carrots after cooking through a ricer, peeling oranges by boiling briefly, avoiding soaking or boiling flannels, washing and drying routines, removing brown china marks with soda and boiling, and preventing painted windows from sticking by occasional moving.
Kangaroo Courts Run Inmates Dominate Jail Discipline
In about 1,700 of 3,100 U S county and local jails inmates hold kangaroo courts. Mock trials presided by tougher prisoners enforce discipline by giving distasteful tasks and levying fines to extract money from others. Collier's reports.
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Answers to Classic Riddles and Trivia Questions
A set of casually asked trivia prompts including nations with no armed forces, differences between rank and file, joining points of US states, meanings of dugout, number of South American countries, history of false teeth, the amanuensis, a henpecked philosopher, the first to claim nothing new under the sun, and causes of a vacuum bulb report when broken.
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Riddles and Facts from an Old Puzzle Page
In this fragment a quiz lists states Utah Arizona New Mexico and Colorado. It mentions a low shelter for baseball players a hollow log canoe a cave in a hillside and asks about thirteen the ancient Romans false teeth a scribe Socrates Solomon and air rushing into a vacuum.
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Iceland Traditions Reflected in Military Drill Language
An article notes that in Iceland the description of an officer facing his company shows the rank held horizontally while the file appears vertical, illustrating how position terms shift with cultural framing.
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Actions prove true friendship more than words
A quotation attributed to George Washington notes that a person’s actions are the true criterion of friendship, while generous assurances of goodwill are not reliable indicators of attachment.
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Making Amends With Misplaced Wallpaper Mix Up
Whitley had wallpapering in progress while his wife was away. The dining room was mistakenly papered in the bathroom and the bathroom received the green tile design. The householder challenged the error and the worker admitted the error, blaming the plumber for the bath.
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