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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1947
Page
2
An instructional piece by Evata Haley on turning fabric scraps into attractive quilts. It covers choosing quilt types English and Italian traditions, machine and hand quilting, suitable fabrics, padding, batting, threads, frames, and steps for laying out fabric lining and interlining. It emphasizes using cotton for summer, sunfast threads, and careful framing.
The piece describes quilting and embroidery techniques including English and outline stitch methods. It covers finishing edges by turning lining fabrics, methods such as plain stitching slip stitching piping or corded edges and decorative scallops, plus optional corded rows for texture.
A collection of cool weather salads for summer meals. Includes tomato salad using cream cornstarch and tomato juice, stuffed tomato egg salad, cottage cheese citrus salad, and a tomato egg salad with frizzled beef. Recipes emphasize make ahead prep, freshness, and hearty salads as main dishes.
The piece highlights trending fashion with emphasis on back drapes and frothy lingerie touches at the skirt hem. It notes slender smooth bodices and crepe fabrics as ideal choices for a contemporary silhouette.
The flat darner attachment resembling an embroidery hoop repairs worn cottons including sheets and pillowcases. Stocking darners fit heels or toes for quick precise mending. The hemstitcher and edge stitcher produce durable hemstitching and firm edges on linens nets silks and fine cottons. The gathering foot gathers fabric evenly.
Vary your salads with dressings by beating cottage cheese until light and fluffy then folding into mayonnaise or French dressing. Sour cream can make both mayonnaise and cooked dressings lighter and zestier. Add lemon juice or vinegar for more pep.
A springtime dish uses two large Calavos and one grapefruit. Split the fruit, remove seeds, scoop some flesh, dice the removed portion and mix with diced grapefruit. Fill shells on crisp lettuce, top with mint, and serve with lemon honey dressing.
The passage describes a crisp dressing method using a mix of finely diced cucumber, chopped green pepper, vinegar, salt, and mayonnaise. It notes bacon in dressings to enhance potato and vegetable salads and suggests blending mayonnaise with sour cream or cream cheese plus fruit juice for fruit and berry dishes.
Western union announces Jane Cowl and her road company with Broadway roots and radio work. Alan Hale comments on film industry gains. 1909 Lubin days cited by a young actor. Paul Whiteman to host coast to coast radio debut. Ray Nazarro returns from Shanghai after $310 million shoot for Columbia’s Assigned to Treasury amid exchange chaos.
Pattern No. 8152 offered in sizes 12 14 16 18 20 40 and 42. Size 14 requires 3% yards of 35 or 39 inch fabric.
Keep old pieces of fine wool for dusting cloths and wash stored garments inside out in warm soapy water. Turn garb inside out scrub rinse dry away from heat. Threading a needle improves with short cut thread. For buttonholes stitch around the area. Apply lemon oil to gilt frames sparingly. Clean brushes with proper solution or turpentine when paint work is interrupted.
Howard Washington, once a red cap in Pennsylvania Station, tows baggage and runs a shoe shine parlor at Warner studio while acting in Wallflower. Jan Miner, known as Ann Williams on Crime Photographer, pursued stage design after self doubt and found success with her New York audition leading to CBS.
Billy Williams, radio singer with Sammy Kaye, debuts on screen in Smoky River Serenade while on leave from CBS where he hosts A Bouquet for You. George Sanders appears with Edna Best in London stage, then Madeline Carroll in Escape and The Theatre Guild of the Air radio adaptation. Bob Hope sets East broadcasts May 27 Philadelphia June 3 New York June 10 Boston before a family vacation to South America and Europe.
Milo Boulton and Musical Director Oscar Bradley recall the moment he rushed from his wedding reception to audition for the post. The anecdote highlights Boulton’s long standing role on the We the People series and Bradley’s early collaboration.
Phil Hanna CBS baritone organizes a tennis tournament for radio stars. Benny Venuta nears twenty five thousand to fifty thousand dollars in jewelry for Repeat Performance and studio rental. Janis Paize moves to a new home, buys a dog, car, annuities, and a star ring role in Cheyenne. Dick Parvel’s Rogues Gallery will replace Phil Harris Alice Faye show for summer. Jack Carson lands a better deal, replaces Jack Haley on next show.
The passage notes how leaves steal nutrients from carrots after harvest. It instructs clipping leaves once carrots are pulled from the ground to prevent nutrient loss.
Albert Einstein commuting from Princeton to New York City tried to read a train menu but forgot his glasses. He held the menu at arm’s length and then close to his face without result. He asked the waiter to read it aloud. The waiter replied in a playful southern drawl that he also could not read the menu.
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