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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1939
Page
5
Pattern 6391 offers directions to crochet a matching chair and davenport set with a head rest formed by two chair backs joined and bordered. Includes illustrations and stitch guides. Send 15 cents to The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept. 259 W. 14th St. New York to obtain.
Miss Alice Marble arrives amid chatter of her Wimbledon triumphs and plans for Hollywood tenacity. The profile paints Marble as a versatile athlete designer and singer who played softball basketball and track, noting her early baseball roots and a mascot stint with the San Francisco Seals. It also mentions Francis Lederer’s world peace advocacy and his rise from Prague theater to Berlin fame, highlighting his wartime service and multilingual talents.
Diverse sandwich ideas and recipes are shared for summer meals including Raisin Orange, Banana Butter, Mayonnaise Sandwich Loaf, Hot Peanut Butter, and Savory fillings. Practical tips cover bread variety, moisture, leftovers, and preparing quick one-dish lunches plus a teaser for next week’s macaroni meals column by Eleanor Howe.
An advertising note offers a cookbook with over 125 recipes men like including steak and apple pie a la mode. Send 10 cents to Feeding Father Eleanor Howe at 919 North Michigan Avenue Chicago Ill to receive a postage prepaid copy.
A collection of practical domestic hacks for cleaning and preserving items. Tips include polishing tins with vine gar, saving paraffin from preserves, using a pipe cleaner to clean teapots, scraping cream whippers, and adding corn sirup to pint jars to prevent sugar crystallization. Also advice on kerosene polishing for bathrooms, halved apples for peeling, and scrubbing with a chore ball to remove potato and carrot skins.
Interior decorators now claim deep ceiling colors raise the perceived ceiling height. A new technique paints the side wallpaper up onto the ceiling about 10 inches to create the illusion of greater height.
Instructions printed again for heavy white cotton cable cord hot dish mats inspired by a corset string design. Step by step: form paired circles, braid cords, sew rows, ease inside edge, and join ends. Offer promotes sewing books and leaflets with a mail order from Mrs. Spears in Chicago.
Ambitious men and women seek extra income can send for free opportunity listings. Address Bombay Sales, 912 E 140th St, Cleveland Ohio.
A country youth tries to propose to his girlfriend during a cemetery stroll. He points to graves of relatives then to open ground and declares that is where he wants them to be buried someday.
A sharp quote attributed to Lord Herbert warns that those who refuse to forgive others disrupt their own path to forgiveness. It frames forgiveness as a shared moral bridge everyone must traverse.
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