Rug That Is Easy to Crochet in Triangles
Easy to crochet rug designs feature triangular and hexagonal pieces joined in strips or hexagons. Use rug wool or candlewicking with color suggestions, and create rugs in any size. Pattern 1240 includes directions, stitch illustrations, and material needs. Send 15 cents to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept. at 82 Eighth Avenue New York for pattern.
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Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept
Eighth Avenue
New York
N. Y
Freezing Plant Aids Washington Landslide Halt Effort
A massive freezing facility in Washington is designed to halt landslides by producing ice daily for 4,000 families as part of the Grand Coulee project. The plant would freeze fifty pounds of ice each day to form a frozen auxiliary support.
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Washington
Grand Coulee
Masquerade Revels Hide a Fatal Secret in Satuit Estate
Narrator Aunt Mary Avery recalls a summer masquerade at the Stow estate in Satuit Massachusetts where Molly Eames, Walter Treadway, Ace Blaikie and Doctor Myron Marden appear in vivid costumes. The party ends with a murder connected to engagement rings and past romances, while Sylvia Sard, Mary’s observant niece, provides sharp glimpses into the guests and the tragedy to come.
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Mary Avery
Satuit
Mass
Sarah Darbe
Bessie Williams
Mary
Peter Stow
Geary
Edith
Alfred Bray
Myron Marden
Caro Prentiss
France
Paul
Lora Eames
Molly
Ace Blaikie
Walter Treadwell
Blaikie
Molly Eames
Doctor Marden
Bruce Hexson
Ace
Hexson
Sylvia
Europe
Walter Treadway
Snow Queen
Walter
Satan
Mattie
Bessie
Stows
Sarah
Dorinda Belle
Aunt Mary
Dorinda
Nancy
Merry Mere
Doctor Ace
Doctor Spellman
Mystery Masked Ball Behind Velvet Doors
The scene unfolds at a mansion party where Mrs Burton and Leda Burton enter in Elizabethan attire while a powerful Rajah and a slave figure through the crowd. Sylvia quietly identifies many guests including Uncle Peter and Aunt Mattie as the room fills with music, laughter, and masked intrigue.
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Psyche
Sylvia
Dorinda Belle
Julius Caesar
Satun
Doctor Ace
Ace
Rome
Senorita
Lamb
Mary
Mrs. Broome
Nina Broome
Ellie Dent
Tom Boylan
Peter
Mattie
Satan
How Guncotton Is Made From Ordinary Cotton Wool
Guncotton is produced by boiling ordinary cotton wool in a sodium carbonate solution. After washing and drying the material is dipped for ten minutes in a mixture of nitric and sulphuric acids and water, then washed and dried before use in various explosives.
Soulful oysters and tax questions in Brisbane column
Arthur Brisbane muses on K okichi Mikimoto and his pearl farming method harming wild oyster stocks. He notes the self inflicted death topic, inheritance taxes on tax exempt securities, Polly the parrot grave marker, and ends with a reminder that life offers hope despite grim tales.
Chiang Kai-Shek warns China on war preparedness
Chiang Kai-Shek, leader of the Nanking government, warns that no nation can ruin China unless China ruins itself. He stresses that neglect of war preparation leads to national ruin and suggests patriotic American radio sponsors may broadcast the talk in Washington.
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Chiang Kai-Shek
Nanking
China
Washington, D. C
England fears union quarrels threaten aircraft work
The piece warns that strikes by British union men could delay wartime aircraft production and hinder readiness. It notes potential order shifts to American factories and urges workers to value national safety when bombs fall. It also remarks on cheap borrowing and cites Mayor LaGuardia borrowing thirty million dollars from J P Morgan at one and ten percent interest over five years.
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England
Britain
LaGuardia
J. P. Morgan & Co
Big Steel Chief Announces Wage Hikes and Returns to Dividends
Myron C. Taylor head of Big Steel proclaims wage increases and the resumption of full dividends on preferred United States Steel stock. The company reports three months earnings exceeding thirteen million dollars, the highest in six years.
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Myron C. Taylor
Big Steel
United States
Word Completion Test Skeletons Exercise
This item presents ten skeleton words with missing letters. Read the letters shown and fill in the remaining letters to form common complete words.
Limiting Incomes to Five Thousand Dollars
Collier's Weekly notes a proposed limit of five thousand dollars per person and a plan to share excess earnings among workers under that threshold. It calculates that any beneficiary would gain less than two dollars weekly, referencing 1931 data of four billion dollars in excess and forty million incomes under five thousand.
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Collier’s Weekly
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Glover
Ial
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Inez Haynes Irwin
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W.N.U. Service
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Polly
Kokichi Mikimoto
Mikimoto
Polly Coddington
Brazil
Joseph E. Hunt
King Features Syndicate
Ani
By Lowell Henderson
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WNU
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