Foolish Love Warns Parents As Seventeen-Year-Olds Elope
Kathleen Norris discusses how first love sways seventeen year olds toward marriage with older, unreliable partners. A Knoxville mother reports her daughter Joan, age seventeen, engaged to a 35 year old man. Norris notes no sure cure for such fevered affection and warns mothers to wake their daughters to reality. Caroline Brown’s letter recounts years of hardship after running off with a 34 year old man, showing the risks of late teen romance and unstable marriages.
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Lwe
Joan
Knoxville
Jean
Roy Jones
Roy
Kathleen Norris
Miss Norris
Caroline Brown
Caro- Une
Don
America
Scholarly Warriors and Football Talk in Autumn Debate
A column argues that top college football players are often strong students, noting Phi Beta Kappa alumni on a 1924 Dartmouth team and comparing universities' entrance standards. It discusses recruiter pressure, alumni demands, and high stakes contracts, then shifts to a Thanksgiving dinner menu and planning tips.
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Dartmouth
Jess Hawley
Dooley
Oberlander
Hall
Leavitt
Bjorkman
Kelly
Sage
Whittaker
Hardy
Deal
Parker
Smith
Carnegie
Cornell
Michigan
Minnesota
Pennsylvania
Stanford
Washington
Georgia Tech
Notre Dame
Phi Beta Kappas
Indiana
Bo McMillin
Texas
Dana Bible
Matty Bell
Bill Alexander
Georgia
Harry Mebre
Mehre
Yale
Mal Stevens
Lou
Little
Mississippi
Athens
Classic Cranberry Mold and Creamed Scalloped Oysters
Instructions for cranberry gelatin mold with nut meats celery and apple, followed by scalloped oysters with cracker crumb topping. Also includes Honey Almond Sweet Potatoes and Zucchini Squash with Tomatoes with baking steps and ingredient amounts.
Household Hints for the holidays from Miss Howe
An advertisement promotes Household Hints by Eleanor Howe as a time saving guide for holiday tasks. Readers can order the book by sending 10 cents to Household Hints care of Eleanor Howe at 919 North Michigan Avenue Chicago Illinois. The piece notes eighteenth century bedroom decor with gray green walls striped gray and red fabrics and a cream carpet.
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Miss Howe
Eleanor Howe
North
Michigan Avenue
Chicago
Illinois
Making Your Own Hook Rag Designs
Ruth Wyeth Spears explains how to design antique hooked rag rugs by drawing on burlap with circles spirals leaves and patterns. She advises a two inch hem allowance overcast edges center burlap guides and tracing patterns from paper cutouts for balanced floral motifs.
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Ruth Wyeth
Dependence and Independence in Wordsworth’s View
A compact reflection on Wordsworth noting that true progress blends humble dependence on God and support from others with manly reliance on self and personal effort. The quote contrasts two virtues guiding character and success.
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God
Dr Caldwell's Laxative Senna with Syrup Pepsin
An old advertisement touts Dr Caldwell's Laxative Senna with Syrup Pepsin as a pleasant laxative. It claims the formula wakes lazy bowels for relief from constipation, aided by pepsin to ease swallowing. Suitable for adults and children, the ad urges readers to buy at their druggist today.
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Dr. Caldwell
Love of Fame quoted from Tacitus
The line reflects on fame as a lingering weakness even among the wise, noting that the love of recognition can endure beyond other faults. It presents a succinct meditation on virtue and vanity attributed to the ancient historian Tacitus.
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Tacitus
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By Kathleen Norris
Talker
Grantland Rice
Household News
Western Newspaper Union
Ron
Ruth Wyeth Spears
Bedford Hills
New York
Ave
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
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