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Newspaper
Paris Post
Location
Paris, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1951
Page
6
The article guides selecting curtains and draperies to soften sunlight and frame views. It covers length rules, matching with drapes, tiebacks height and style, and options for sheer curtains without side drapes, plus finishing accents like cornices and valances to suit various room styles.
A satirical piece portrays the Supreme Court as irascible over doorbell rings on salesmen. It cites fictitious cases and outrageous details about doorbell rights, followed by home decor advice on draperies and window treatments for various room styles.
A Wichita father, Carter Neill, writes about the joys and stresses of raising six children and a busy household. He contrasts past freedom with present costs and chaos, praising family life while admitting fatigue and a longing for simpler times. The piece celebrates parenting as a meaningful lifetime vocation.
After canals and rails, toll roads gain favor as motorists soon pay for about 1000 miles of turnpikes and expressways. The Pennsylvania Turnpike’s 1940 opening showed toll-funded super highways are feasible, inspiring new links from Maine to New Hampshire toward Canada.
Shopper’s Corner highlights a coming surge in wrinkle resistant fabrics including dacron and heirloom cotton lace. It extols dacron’s crease proof, non shrinking, weather stable qualities for suits and dresses, plus versatile cottons for sheer garments, stoles, and coordinated outfits.
In McMinnville Tennessee three drugstores launched an ice cream price war. One store cut prices up to 50 percent, matched within hours by two others through town circulars. Sample price listed 28 cents for a regular 55 cent quart.
The pattern 8703 Capelet from Fashion-Right for All Occas is rated sew-rite and offered in sizes 12 through 20 and 40 to 42. It requires 4% yards of 35 or 39 inch fabric. The Spring and Summer Stylist issue provides sewing tips and fabric news for home dressmakers, with gift patterns included and priced at 25 cents.
The guide explains using commercial rug shampoos or mild soap with luke warm water for scrubbing small rug areas. It suggests wiping with a second cloth and a water alum rinse to remove suds, and notes oil spots on concrete can be treated with cleaning fluid or with a drying paste of cleaning fluid and fuller's earth.
Beauty experts claim a color true lipstick from BISSOP’S named hazfs stays on until removed. It promises no lipstick on glasses china silverware or teeth and avoids embarrassing smears in public, with a bold new cosmetic history claim from New York.
This opportunity offers high school graduates a premier professional education in nursing. After graduation, a nurse can choose private practice airlines foreign service hospital health education and collaborate with top professionals. Visit your local School of Nursing for details and join this proud profession.
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