Midlife women urged to build work skills and happiness
Kathleen Norris argues for a school for middle aged women to learn practical trades and personal skills for self supporting work. She notes older workers face discrimination and hygiene challenges but highlights success stories from pickle makers to hospital aides, stressing adaptability and dignity in labor.
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Kathleen Norris
Lsten
America
Santa Barbara
Jane
Miss Bright
Old Home and Small Towns Echo of Change
The piece reflects on aging and moving from a bustling metropolis to a quiet town seeking neighborly ties. It contrasts permanent homes with transient city life and warns to hold onto farms as inflation rises. It also discusses unions, free competition, and California schooling costs in 1940.
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America
John
Omaha
California
Chicken or Turkey a la King for church suppers
A 50 serving church supper feature describes Chicken or Turkey a la King with cream sauce over hot biscuits. It lists ingredients including chicken and turkey meats, mushrooms, peppers, pimiento, onions, and a rich milk sauce, plus instructions for preparing the dish and accompanying baking powder biscuits.
Church Supper Menu and Recipes From Western Union
A church supper menu includes Chicken a la King Scalloped Potatoes Sunset Salad and assorted cakes with coffee. Recipes detail Scalloped Potatoes for 50, Sunset Salad with lemon gelatin carrots pineapple and salt, and Meat Loaf servings. Also notes Boiled Coffee and an after game supper idea from Mrs. Lou Little with cider beans date-nut bread and doughnuts.
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Lou Little
Western Newspaper Union
Attractive winter salads to enrich menus and meals
Lynn suggests practical cold season salads to stretch nourishment. Prunes stuffed with cream cheese and nuts with orange segments and lettuce. beets and carrots diced with celery and mayonnaise. orange sections with cream cheese balls. marinated oranges in French dressing. pineapple and oranges on lettuce. alternating orange and grapefruit. lettuce with hard cooked egg and peas dressed with oil salt pepper and vinegar.
Smartly Styled Draperies Any Beginner Can Make
Patrition presents a DIY guide for draperies with a dusty rose rayon damask pair and rayon satin swag. The 82 page booklet offers exact diagrams for making drapery curtains valances and glass curtains with trimming and measuring tips. Send your order to the publisher.
Talisman of Courage Quote by John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams extols a magical talisman of courage and perseverance that makes difficulties vanish and obstacles disappear. The aphorism frames inner resolve as a transformative force.
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John Quincy Adams
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Patterson
Vance
Lynn
Sixth Avenue
New York City
Dante
Lydia Pinkham
Bureau OF Standards
Washington
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