Home repair tips and sewing practice notes from a vintage guide
Vertically striped drapes can make windows appear taller. Remove indelible pencil marks with denatured alcohol on fast colored fabrics. Preserve jars for kitchen storage and label contents clearly. Dust record player turntables with a soft brush. Practice sewing on smooth brown paper lined with pencil guides. Dry rayon garments by dampening, rolling in waxed paper, and ironing promptly. Polish bathroom tiles with a cloth soaked in turpentine or lemon juice. Keeping eggs covered while frying prevents yolk film and keeps eggs from hardening.
What are homonyms and a letter of credit explained
Homonyms are words sounding alike but with different spellings and meanings. A letter of credit is a document to authorize the bearer to draw a set sum from a foreign bank.
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Mammoth Cave
U.S
Connie Mack
Kentucky
America Named By German Professor
A German professor Martin Waldseemuller named the western hemisphere America. He wrote the introduction to a sixteenth century edition of Ptolemy's Geography prepared in the Vosges by a French college. The name emerged from Americus Vespucius’s explored parts and broadened as discoveries linked Lief, Columbus, and others.
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Hemisphere
America
Martin Waldseemuller
Ptolemy
Vosges Mountains
New World
Americus Vespucius
Lief
Columbus
Henry Cabot
Vespucius
Labrador
Patagonia
Wood Window Valance Adds Charm to Room
Learn to make a wood window valance with no carpentry skill. Trace the pattern on wood, cut, saw and assemble as shown. Pattern includes a materials list and can be bought at a local lumber yard for 25 cents from Mt. Vernon Valance Pattern No 30.
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Mt. Vernon
East-Bird Pattern Company Dept. W
Pleasantville, N. Y
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Bobby
Little Reggie
Margarita
Reginald
Matt and
Jeff
Bud Fisher
Old Black Joe
Ger Gene ‘Byrnes
Pete Sake
By Arthur Pointer
By Clark S. Haas
Sunnyside
Mom
Virgil
BY Len Kleis
By Charles Kuhn
Clara
Dixie
FOLEY
St.Joseph
M.O. Dept
G. Chicago
Milwaukee Ave
Chicago
Toro
COEUR
Awrence J. Meisel CO
Creve Coeur
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