Dear Anne Hirst Letter From a Seventeen-Year-Old Bride
A seventeen year old writes to Dear Anne about parental control over marriage. She loves her beet and fears disobedience as her parents intend her to wed an older chosen suitor four weeks after their disagreement. Her heart suspects a broken promise.
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Anne Hirst
Togo
Simple lawn chair pattern and romance advice
Pattern 620 offers easy instructions to build lawn porch or patio chairs with actual size pieces. Includes one pattern and a gift book offer from Laura Wheeler Needlecraft for 1956 plus a letters section with parental guidance about love and independence.
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Laura Wheeler
Eighteenth St
New Toronto
Topper Norman Paul recalls Jimmy’s best laughs at opera event
Norman Paul praises Jimmy Durante as one of the great laugh-getters in show business at New York Opera opening. Jimmy jokes about a diamond hair ornament on Baby Mends and a ruby tiara on Abs. Vanderbilt while noting popcorn on his head from a leaky bag.
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Norman Paul
Jimmy
New York
Abs
Vanderbilt
Don Amethe
Paul Henning
Burns and Allen
Gracie
George
Jane Russell
Princess dress pattern 4783 for full and half sizes
Advertises pattern 4783 for princess style dress with short and full sleeves. Includes sizes 14 to 24 four, yardage 4 1/2 yards 39 inch fabric, illustrated instructions, order form to Anne Adams 123 Eighteenth St New Toronto Ont.
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Anne Adams
Eighteenth St
New Toronto
Ont
Cracks Reported in Taj Mahal Structure in Agra
Three wide cracks appear in plaster inside octagonal rooms of the Taj Mahal amid heavy rains and emergency measures urged. A courtyard wall collapsed after autumn floods. the mausoleum was built by Shah Jahan for Mumtaz Mahal and took twenty two years to complete at a cost of fifteen million dollars.
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Taj Mahal
Agra
India
Shah Jehan
Mumtaz Mahal
Queer Eyes of a Whale Describe Fixed Eye Alignment
The article explains whale eye placement with eyes set far back facing opposite directions. It notes they cannot turn to look forward or backward, requiring the whale to rise and turn to view objects on the horizon.
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Mr. Heaplingfish
June 1956 at Ginger Farm a garden diary
The column recalls a cool early June at Ginger Farm with frost fears, garden tasks, and window cleaning. The writer notes plants surviving winter, geraniums in pots, furnace work, car troubles, and the arrival of a new grandson. A reflection on progress, weather paradoxes, and the St. Lawrence Seaway TV feature closes the piece.
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House of Commons
Ottawa
St. Lawrence Seaway
Ginger Farm
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