Woman's World How to dress children with style and care
Practical guidance on sewing for kids emphasizes choosing quality fabrics and proper fit to build confidence. It discusses color, sizing, and tailoring details for boys and girls, advocating careful sewing over cheaply made or ill fitting garments. It links clothing quality to self esteem and social perception.
Freight Car Hazards and Perjury in Courtroom Tales
A courtroom digest recounts misadventures from a boy breaking his leg on a railroad box-car to a perjury charge after an oath at marriage, a husband’s assault defense rejected as outdated, and a jailed student freed after a kangaroo court. It also notes duties of jailers and a guide to durable children’s fabrics and fasteners for easy care and ironing.
Don't Lose Happy Middle Years
Mildred Miller of New York writes of a rut in married life with Lee, a modest income and secure life but lacking heart. The piece suggests moving to a smaller city or farm for fulfillment, gardening, interior decorating, and shared work toward a peaceful, engaged middle years life.
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Lee
Mildred Miller
New York City
West
Los Angeles
Mildred
Be Smart Necklines and Collars Enhance Jewelry Styles
The article highlights wool dresses with simple necklines and upstanding collars pairing with ornate necklaces. It describes long looping strands, chokers with pendants, and repeating motifs in earrings and pins. Examples include jade and pearl chokers and a jade pendant with coral and rhinestones on gold filigree.
Grocer Revives Ramapo Mountain Craft Trade
Pincus Margulies of Ladentown a 45 year veteran opens Pine's Store to revive the Ramapo mountaineer art of making baskets scoops bowls spoons and other wooden utensils. Harold Margulies runs the store postwar while the mountaineers supply a yearly output of hundreds of baskets scoops and colored wares. The barter based trade paid workers in merchandise and food with credit extended on necessities as baskets and wares were sent to summer visitors and freight cars filled in spring.
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Ladentown
N. Y
Pincus Margulies
Ramapo
Ramapos
Margulies
Brooklyn
New Idea Manure Spreader Origin Tied to 1899 Craft
Coldwater Ohio AVCO New Idea plant marks golden anniversary with a 15 acre factory and a 1440 square foot replica of the 1899 Maria Stein workshop where Joseph Oppenheim and six helpers built the first manure spreader. The museum-like site showcases a historic forge and early tools.
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American Free Enterprise
Coldwater
Ohio
New Idea
Avco Manufacturing Corporation
Joseph Oppenheim
Maria Stein
Oppenheim
Crossbreds Prove Finer Type in Beef Animals
A live stock specialist reports crossbreds show a finer type of beef than their purebred ancestors. The finding suggests planned cross-breeding could improve outcomes, and color variation is not a reliable indicator of inferior market yield.
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