St Patrick Party Ideas and Green Themed Dishes From Eleanor Howe
Household News presents St Patrick s day party ideas including Irish potato pig accents for table decor, shamrock pie, cloverleaf rolls, green lime pudding, and a frog of menus. Recipes cover chicken salad in lettuce cups, shamrock hat sandwiches, and minty desserts with hints to reuse leftovers, all tied to Eleanor Howe s Easy Entertaining booklet.
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Mar Rch
St. Patrick’s Day
St. Patrick’s
Eleanor Howe
Charming and Changeable Princess Frock Pattern 1898B
Charming slim waisted flare-skirted dress design by Barbara Bell Pattern 1898-B offers two neckline options. Suitable for misses and women, in cottons for home or fabrics like faille and silk for street wear. Sizes 14 to 42 with corresponding busts. yardage given for size 16. Send order to:
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Barbara Bell
Chicago Enclose 15 Cents in Coins for Pattern No
Classified request asks readers to enclose 15 cents in coins for a pattern number. The item requires name and address for response. The notice appears as a small ad seeking pattern submissions.
Hair Mats from Chinese Hair Used in Southern Mills
Strange facts describe cottonseed oil mills in the South using coarse Chinese hair to weave mats for oil separation after hydraulically crushing seeds. One Memphis mill buys about 2,000 heads of hair monthly for this purpose. The piece notes Japanese ceremonies for inanimate objects such as ships, oysters, dolls, and needles.
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South
Memphis
Beetles Clean Bones for New York Museum Displays
The American Museum of Natural History in New York maintains a small army of live beetles whose task is to clean bone specimens before they are mounted. The beetles efficiently remove flesh as part of preparing animal skeletons for exhibition.
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American Museum of Natural History
New York
Collier’s
Hidden Cupboards and Window Seat for Small Spaces
A compact home idea shows building cupboards on each side of a window with a built in seat. Hinged curtains conceal the storage, with tan, yellow, and blue green chintz accents.
Zealous Photographer Delivers Surprising Baby Proofs
A wedding photographer sent proofs to a newly wedded couple but the envelope contained images of a two month old baby. On the back of a proof the instruction asks the clients to state sizes and quantities when ordering, causing shock to the bride and groom.
Curious Qs About World Facts Yet Puzzling
A set of trivia style questions covers Paris catacombs star flags Arctic naming origins jail sizes colony etymology railroad gauges aluminum wire drawing depth buoyancy corks puree soup and non split woods. Answers depend on history geography science and materials.
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Paris
Arctic Ocean
Colonial origins and oddities in historical notes
The text notes that Romans settled men to farm as colonia, explains the term colony, lists 30 gauges from 15 to 66 inches, and states aluminum wire is extremely light. It describes pressure at depth crushing cork, defines a French term meaning porridge, and mentions lignum vitae cannot be split due to fiber structure.
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Colonia
Answers About City Excavations and Geography
Vast excavations extend under the city once serving as subterranean quarries for building. The stars collectively symbolize the 48 states of the Union. Arctic derives from the Greek arktos meaning bear, referring to the northern Great Bear constellation. Shanghai houses the largest jail on Ward road with capacity over 7 000 prisoners.
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States
the Union
Ward Road
Shanghai
New Heat Absorbing Paint Could Warm Homes
A California expert named W F Alder developed a heat absorbing paint that stores and radiates heat. In tests with two copper cubes, the painted cube ran 40 degrees Celsius hotter than the unpainted one. Fruit tree trunks painted with the mixture resisted frost during severe weather.
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W. F. Alder
Free book offer for piles and fistula treatment
An advertisement from Dr. C. M. Coe of 503 Pine St St. Louis Mo offers a free book on piles and fistula promising payment for readers.
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C. M. Coe
Pine St
St. Louis, Mo
Good Friends and Character, Lavater Quote
A compact reflection on friendship and character from Lavater noting that true friends reveal a person’s goodness and enemies expose bad traits in people.
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