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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1948
Page
6
The note suggests telling your husband before trying a method. It cites a shaving brush as a handy tool for dusting pleated lamp shades. It recommends starching towels to boost absorbency and shows how to seal frayed shoelace tips by twisting ends and dipping in clear nail polish.
Anne and Henry Burton rush to celebrate when a telegram confirms they won the soap contest and will receive a glamorous trailer. Their joy fades into doubts about Florida snakes and future plans as Anne fantasizes California actors while the couple questions where their happiness went.
Anne and Henry Burton debate travel plans after winning a trailer prize. Martha Norton, Henrys cousin, pressures a New England trip, while the Norton family eyes the trailer as an easier escape. A contest intrudes as the couple contemplates sharing their prize with relatives and avoiding another fishing based vacation.
Banking as the most serious threat to the grower of potatoes and other vegetables is the Colorado potato beetle which is widespread in many areas. The beetle is yellowish with 10 stripes and lays orange eggs on leaf undersides. A second generation follows, with larvae and adults defoliating crops. control by dusts or sprays such as paris green calcium arsenate or cryolite, plus hand-picking and crushing egg masses.
Heralded as the first museum in the United States devoted entirely to the circus the Ringling Art Museum opened in Sarasota Florida. The old warehouse structure features a central pole and girders resembling a circus tent and sits on the estate of the late John Ringling who willed his residence and art collection to Florida. Exhibits include five old circus wagons costumes masks decor for spectacles handbills and photographs of famed circus characters.
Pattern No 8298 offers sizes 2 to 6 years with a dress, bonnet and yardage in 35 or 39 inch widths, plus a free sewing guide inside the Spring and Summer FASHION book. A junior date dress features a yoke, hipline detail and ballerina skirt. Pattern No 8299 covers sizes 11 to 18 with a size 12 cap sleeve dress needing 4 yards of 39 inch fabric.
Reader asks how to remove floor score marks from former tenants. Advice suggests electric floor sander and thin varnish coats to hide hollows. Also discusses smoothing rough single wood floors before linoleum or covering with plywood. Finally advises on wallpaper painting with enamel undercoater and enamel coat, warning against flat paint or calcimine.
With warm days insects threaten cabbage and potatoes. Green worm and lice attack cabbage while Colorado beetles and black flea beetles target potatoes. The safe control is rotenone dusting at three quarters of one percent, applied when the white and yellow butterflies appear and repeated ten days apart.
The University of Wisconsin notes the sugar beet as a strong cash crop for dairy farms. It integrates well with dairying, utilizes farm manure, and keeps soil loose and friable. Beets resist late frosts, improve soil condition, and provide valuable feed from tops for cattle and sheep.
Guidance on planting an evergreen windbreak to shield farm buildings. Recommend placing the windbreak about 150 feet from structures, with one to three rows of trees spaced roughly 18 feet apart for increasing protection.
A professional can achieve excellent results with spray painting if top quality paint is used. Surfaces must be warm and dry and weather conditions should be warm and dry for best adhesion and finish.
The early Illinois state prison began in Alton, southern Illinois. A postwar legislative inquiry led to establishing a penitentiary at Joliet. During the Civil War, Alton jail conditions caused detainee deaths at six to ten daily, prompting evacuation, sale, and razing of the facility.
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