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Newspaper
Polk Progress
Location
Polk, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1940
Page
7
A reader guide to hosting a festive Fourth of July gathering with porch or yard parties. Includes party foods, decorations, games, and activities for children and adults, plus scrambled names game and patriotic dessert ideas like peppermint stick ice cream and pinwheel cookies.
Barbara Bell Pattern No 1949 B offers a sports shirt with convertible collar a double swing skirt and shorts and slacks made in matching cuts. Suitable fabrics include denim flannel sharkskin gingham and sailcloth and sizes 11 13 15 17 19 with busts 29 31 33 35 37.
Fragmentary note directs sending 15 cents in coins to Sears Cue at 211 West Wacker Drive for Pattern No 6 with an unclear name and address.
Betsy, famed for Sewing Book 3, streamlined an old iron bed and redesigned a large kitchen into two rooms. In Betsy’s house the partition creates Betsy’s guest hall while her mother dislikes big kitchens. Cream walls with pink stripes and dark green linoleum set a vintage color scheme. Betsy is sewing a hooked rug for her new sitting room using directions from Sewing Book 5 and provides order details at the end.
A Curio of strange sleep facts notes the dor mouse may die if not aroused gradually. It also cites Europe housing most history books yet containing a minority of the world’s population. St Pierre and Miquelon swap hands between France and Britain many times since 1680. Collier’s reports on U S border patrols detaining up to 33 000 illegal entrants yearly across 5900 miles of borders.
A light collection of quips and jokes about singing blood warming clocks fairground odds half price film roles secret sorrows and a collar button in a cow's stomach. The banter touches on timing, identity, and unlikely discoveries with punchy one liners.
The famous horse Justin Morgan, statue at a Vermont farm near Middlebury, is credited with creating and fixing the Morgan breed. His traits have dominated descendants for 140 years, an enduring puzzle in horse breeding.
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