Prints Foretell Coming of Spring
Cherie Nicholas observes early spring signals in fashion with bright silk dresses in prints and plain colors. Advancing trends include two color designs, dots as accents, navy and blue hues, crepe fabrics, and sheer textures from Paris shows, with mono tone crepe ensembles highlighted.
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Cherie Nicholas
Navy
Fleet Blue
Pilot Blue
Aqua
Paris Couturier
Western Newspaper Union
Hints for Housekeepers From Winter Diet Tips
Practical household advice on using cranberry sauce with waffles and cheap eggs and milk, plus tips for diet, storage, and clothing. Encourages dried fruits in winter, a broom outside for snow removal, and a child reading setup with a proper chair and lighting. The passage ends with a note on political bias.
The One Qualification of a Politician
The quote from Jud Tunkins reflects on past politics when a handshake was seen as enough to claim first-rate status, recalling a bygone era of simple campaigning.
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Jud Tunkins
Washington Star
Oil-stones widely used from Indiana and Arkansas
The most extensively used oil stones in the United States come from Indiana and Arkansas. Oil-stones are also made artificially from powdered car borundum.
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The
United States
Indiana
Arkansas
Training Children in Use of Money Envelopes to Check Spending
The guide from the USDA promotes envelope budgeting for young children starting with two envelopes for spend and save, then a notebook system, and eventually a checkbook. It cautions the envelope method is temporary and not ideal for larger, ongoing budgets and urges gradual skill-building with distinct use cases like school and lunches.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Social Service
Manila
Bureau of Home Economics
Comfortable Shoes Are Important
Health experts advise focusing on how shoes feel rather than appearance. Shoes should be loose and flexible to allow free foot action. tight footwear weakens muscles and can deform toes. Two rules: toes straight ahead with weight on the outer border. avoid toe out. Exercise barefoot daily, including toe curls and picking up objects, to help foot troubles.
Sandman Story Teaches Snow Kindness To Animals
Fairies tell the snow how to fall to shelter rabbits squirrels birds and other animals in woods and parks. Snow obeys and blankets the ground without harming tiny creatures who seek warmth. Children enjoy sledding as animals hide in safe hollows and the wind chills.
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Western Newspaper Union
Good Things for the Table Recipes 1931
A roundup of old fashioned dishes including Braised Mutton Cream Pie Braised oxtails Tripe Roll Rice Waffles and Rose Salad with step by step instructions and substitutions from the 1931 Western Newspaper Union column. The article frames the dishes as varied meat dishes prepared in distinct ways.
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Western Newspaper Union
Sea Delicacy Lobscouse The King Dish Of The Sea
The piece extols lobscouse as a premier ocean dish linking sailor culture to old shipboard fare. It praises its meat and vegetable stew base with ship's biscuit and likens it to a glorified Irish stew while listing rival sea delicacies in a playful catalog.
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Literary Digest
Straighten Out Distorted Notions for Happiness
An exchange urges readers to clear thinking and shed self pity and prejudice. It argues many troubles stem from our own narrow views and impatience and that adjusting these beliefs leads to greater personal happiness.
Punta Arenas Claims World Southernmost City Title
The southern Chilean city of Punta Arenas is described as the furthest south settlement considered a city, earning a title as the world’s southernmost urban center.
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Punta Arenas
Chile
Unknown Warrior Cross Laid at Arlington Tomb
Britain honors American World War dead by dedicating a Victoria Cross inscribed The Unknown Warrior of the United States of America. King George V directs the cross be laid by Lord Beatty on the Unknown Soldier’s tomb at Arlington National Cemetery on November 11, 1921.
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United States of America
George V
Lortd Beatty
Arlington National Cemetery
Washington
Browned Toast Rings With Creamed Fowl
Cut circles from thick bread slices for each person and remove centers with a one inch cutter. Brown the rings in a toaster broiler or pan with a little butter, then fill with creamed fowl fish or vegetables to serve.
Fandango Feature Danced By Couple To Castanets and Guitar
A lively fandango described with a man and woman dancing to castanets and guitar. Music can pause and dancers hold rigid until it resumes, then another couple takes over seamlessly and the performance continues.
Types of Manikins and their varied meanings
The term manikin or mannequin historically refers to a small human model used by artists tailors and dressmakers. It also describes lay models for demonstrating body structure and organ relationships in medical or educational contexts.
Iceland Sagas The Flateyjarbok and Norse Exploration
The Flateyjarbok, a saga collection preserved on Flatey island and now housed in Copenhagen's Royal Library, was created around 1380 by two Icelandic priests and is a key source for the theory that Norsemen reached America.
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Iceland
Royal
Copenhagen
America
Curtains for the Short Windows in a Small Living Room
A United States Department of Agriculture guidance photo outlines curtain solutions for short windows in small living rooms. It describes glass curtains and side draperies reaching the window casing, overdraperies looped back, no valance, vertical emphasis to add height, and materials like rayon damask and sheer marquisette with pinch pleats.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Home Economics
Boy Hero Rises Aboard Lansford During Cape Cod Attack
Eleven year old Jack Ainsley, son of Captain Charles Ainsley, faced a German U boat attack off Cape Cod on July 21, 1918. While his father’s coal barge Lansford burned and others fled, the boy waved an American flag from the bow and attempted to return fire with a .22 rifle before the crew escaped in lifeboats to Nauset Harbor.
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Jack Ainsley
Chartes Ainsley
Lansford
Cape Cod
Mass
Cape
Worth Amboy
Atlantic
Ainsley
Jackan
Nauset Harbor
Orleans
Uncle Dudley and a Soldier’s Return in WWI Courage
Sergeant Jacob Phipps recalls quitting the army briefly to join the Robinson circus before returning to lead two platoons in battle. He later inspires troops with a fierce challenge while facing enemy trenches. The piece also follows Sergeant James J. Washa of the 131st Infantry in a deadly Meuse campaign and the death of his brother Mike Washa in Company D 132nd Infantry.
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Jacob Phipps
Army
Robinson Circus
Uncle Tom
Bloodhounds
Jackass
Dudley
Phipps
Maine
Golden Shores
California
Outfit
Chipps
James J. Washa
Meuse
Consenvoye
One Hundred and Thirty-second Infantry
Washa
Michael
Mike Washa
Jesus
Western Newspaper Union
Pere Marquette Died Near Ludington on Lake Michigan
The famous Jesuit missionary Pere Marquette died near Ludington where the Pere Marquette River meets Lake Michigan during his final expedition. Tracing his journey, the article notes western Michigan lakefront sites tied to the explorer.
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Michigan
Lake Michigan
Pere Marquette
Ludington
Short Irish Will Leaves All to Sister in Odd Form
The will of Arthur Bond Yockey of Lindisfarne, who died recently, leaves $9,725 to his sister Augusta. The document, dated June 15, 1910, from Hill Drop Terrace, Torquay, includes the line I leave all to my sister Augusta and do tommy rot about it. The attestation is standard and no affidavits were needed for proof.
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Ireland
Arthur Bond Yockney
Lindisfarne
Hilldrop Terrace
Torquay
Augusta
Tommy
A. B. Yockney
London Mall
Love's Young Dream and the Polf Bewilderment
A Collier's Weekly quip notes the thrill of realizing no beloved woman shares the importance of polf, contrasting personal passion with broader social folly. The witty line underscores romantic cachet amid cultural buzz and playful cynicism.
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Polf
Collier's Weekly
Wise Mothers Trust California Syrup for Happy Children
Mrs Wm Charleston of 903 Gilmore Ave Kansas City Kansas testifies she has used California Syrup with Annie and Billy all their lives. She says it comforts children when constipated or bilious and restores good nature quickly. Physicians endorse pure vegetable California Syrup for bad breath coated tongue dullness feverishness listlessness and improving appetite and digestion. The genuine bears the California name for protection.
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Gilmore Ave
Kansas City
Kans
Annie
Billy
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