White Fashion Sets Spring 1951 Mood With White Outfits
Cherie Nicoglas notes a rising craze for white in spring and summer 1951. White jackets atop dark skirts or dresses guide day wear, with velvet and satin textures, varied hats, and printed whites appearing in street and formal ensembles.
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St. Moritz
Lyons
Variety in the Menu for a Luncheon Spread
A luncheon menu recipe article outlines salads with crisp lettuce and fruit, a creamed Finnan Haddie dish with baked green peppers, and a French Potato Soup. It suggests salmon tuna or cooked fish as alternatives, and notes jams from fruit scraps and a jelly bag method with a touch of orange and nuts for garnish.
The Kitchen Cabinet Poetry Fragment 1921
An item from The Kitchen Cabinet column dated 1921 collects a Wordsworth epigraph about gathering wisdom from flowers and waking the heart in every hour, reflecting a literary miscellany style of the Western Newspaper Union.
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William Wordsworth
General Day’s Thunderous Silence in 1833 Court
Detroit Free Press recalls Isaac Day known as General Day as Supreme Court sessions in the territorial Capitol faced a thunderstorm. The portly court crier awakened by a thunderclap struck the door with his ivory staff and ordered silence, causing the court to convulse with laughter.
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Michigan
Supreme Court
Territorial Capitol
Isaac Day
Ile
Detroit Free Press
Ancient English Oak Cawthorpe Oak Records Ancient Age
The Montreal Family Herald notes the Cawthorpe oak near Wetherby, England as perhaps the oldest in England at around 1600 years. Once hollow enough for 100 children, it measured 43 feet high with a trunk 8 feet in circumference in 1842, though much of the limbs remain. Green leaves reappear each spring as workers strive to preserve the giant a few more years.
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England
Montreal Family Herald
Wetherby
Eskimo Populations Along Alaska and Canada Coasts
An overview notes Eskimo communities inhabit Nome and extend along Alaska and Canada coasts from the Seward Peninsula to Greenland in the northeast, highlighted as a thickly populated coastal region.
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Nome
Seward Peninsula
Alaska
Canada
Alaska Peninsula
Greenland
Photographic notes on hair color in portraiture
The excerpt argues brunettes photograph better than blonds. It claims shadows and dark tones matter most in images. It suggests blonds have long contrast with the camera while light hair eyes and skin blend together.
Illiterates Barred From Suffrage in Early States
Massachusetts requires voters to read the Constitution and sign their names. Delaware Maine and North Carolina also bar illiterate voters from participating in elections.
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Masgdchusetts
Delaware
Maine
North Carolona
Ilteratea
Congressman Dyer Pleads for Beer Legalization
Congressman L C Dyer of Missouri told President Hoover the making and sale of real beer would bring financial and other benefits if legalized.
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L. C. Dyer
Bmissouri
Hoover
Doctor density worldwide: US leads in physician availability
Capper's Weekly cites a Department of the Interior study showing the United States has one doctor per 800 people, better than Switzerland 1250, Denmark 1450, England and Wales 1490, Germany 1000, France 1600, the Netherlands 1820, and Sweden 2800.
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United States
Department of the Interior
Switzerland
Denmark
England and Wales
Germany
France
Netherlands
Sweden
Capper
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