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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1941
Page
6
A chair is transformed by a tailored frock like a dress for an awkward girl. Right color and fabric cut highlight graceful lines, cover defects, and give a new personality to an old chair. The two piece slip cover uses bold putty tan green and wine red stripes with green fringe edging matching room wallpaper.
A vintage party guide suggests a Washingtons Birthday spread featuring coffee with gingerbread, minted pear salad, cranberry punch, sugar heart cake with lace sugar design, chocolate cream filling, patriotic star sandwiches, deviled biscuit hearts, and festive flower décor. Recipes include punch, sugar heart cake, chocolate filling, and sandwich preparations.
In Goldfield Nevada a town meeting style show led by George W. Denny Jr. is praised for calm handling of heated debates like aid to Britain. The piece traces Denny's NY career from actor to League for Political Education director and outlines Dr. Norman Jolliffe's vitamin theory linking diet to hangovers and Britain relief efforts. It also notes John D. Biggers’ rise to production chief in the new defense office and his Libby Owens Ford presidency since 1930.
Inside the New York City penitentiary on Rikers Island the occupational therapy department runs like an art program using prison waste. Photos show inmates creating items from burnt matches and cigarette-pack cello phane, with one man crafting hooked rugs and designing colors from burlap and wool.
A home sewing pattern offers a versatile frock in bright calico prints with ric rac trim. It fits sizes 12 through 40 with a back tie sash for adjustable waist, easy armholes, and a full skirt. Diagram shows pattern No 1305-B ready to assemble with simple straight seams.
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