Woman's World Sewing Gifts From Scrap Bags and Machines
This feature suggests using a sewing machine and fabric scraps to create thoughtful Christmas gifts. It covers easy items like tea cozies, clothes pin aprons, pot holders, and quilted mitts, plus hostess aprons and matching bridge sets for new brides. It emphasizes practical, homemade gifts with personal touches.
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Martha
Mary
Mean Dog and Monkey Suit Jurisdiction Lessons
Neighborhood dog cases show owners liable for dangerous animals and witnesses. A monkey escapes, mauls a pedestrian, and the owner is held responsible. A drunkard husband case rejects habitual intoxication as a divorce ground. A man’s drunken confession is deemed truthful after drinking. Practical craft tips close the piece with fabric and plastic project ideas for gifts and home storage.
Rocks Ahead and the Cost of Modern Living in 1940s America
Alison Hoyt writes from Kansas City about families juggling a $400 monthly budget amid rising costs and consumer temptations. The piece contrasts older standards with present wages, highlights hardships for Frank and Barbara, and follows immigrant Olga and Jen Rickar as they find affordable housing and work to support a new life, illustrating resilience and ongoing economic strain.
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XARS
Alison Hoyt
Kansas City
Lynn
Alison
Frank
Barbara
Olga
Jen Rickar
Poland
You
Katzi
Karl
Mrs. Smith
Be Smart Bloused Suit Fashion Gains Spring Momentum
The article highlights a softer blouse driven silhouette shaping this season and spring fashion. It notes soft-woven novelty tweeds and sheer woolens creating drape and color, with simple straight skirts to emphasize a belted blouse contour for slender to average height figures.
Year Round Wear Fests Two Piece Frock Pattern No 1823
Advertisement notes a two piece frock with youthful air for year round wear. Pattern 1823 offers sizes 12 to 20 with short and long sleeve options and a peplum feature. Also mentions fabric yardage and a fashion feature in the book.
TB Remains Big Puzzle in Medical History
Milwaukee centennial observation notes the mystery of tuberculosis. The piece outlines death rates, possible causes such as air, nourishment, and genetics, and credits Robert Koch for proving the germ theory on March 24, 1882, ending prior ignorance.
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Milwaukee
United States
Schiller
Keats
Shelley
Charlotte Bronte
Chopin
Paganini
Balzac
Thoreau
Emerson
Rhodes
Stevenson
Hippocrates
Robert Koch
Physiological Society of Berlin
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Exgif Haley
Will Bernard, II
Kathleen Norris
Jan
Mom
City
Rickars
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
South Wells St
Chicago
SANO
Nekaoha
Fleming-Hall Tobacco Co., Inc
Fleischmanns
Fleischmann's
Wesson