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Newspaper

Polk Progress

Location

Polk, Nebraska, United States of America

Date

Sep 08, 1938

Page

6

Slimming designs entice home sewists with practical patterns

Practical dress and apron patterns offer slim silhouettes and easy sew charts. The apron smooths over hips and won’t slip when hands are in dough. The slenderizing afternoon dress features a new skirt, inner shoulder tucks, and flattering necklines with options for sleeves in different fabrics. Includes size ranges and material needs. A book SELLING sewing tips promises to help beginners and pros alike, with ordering details for SUCCE SS IN SEWING.

Beheaded and Fogged Punishments in Humorous Exchange

Stray Stories Magazine presents a classroom joke about fogging and beheading. The professor asks about punishments and the class replies with corporal and capital as a play on words. The gag highlights playful language and historical phrasing.

Stray Stories Magazine

Old Lady Taunts Driver After Collision

A brief cartoon caption shows an elderly woman quipping to a motorist who just had a major crash. The motorist replies with a wry joke, turning the moment into a humorous exchange.

Fragmented dialogue prompts on cloves in a crime tale

An exchange hints at danger as characters discuss breath and death and consider cloves as a remedy or disguise within a tense scene. The fragment suggests a noir mood and a looming consequence without detailing events.

A Stitched Sampler In Floss That's Gay

Embroider this cheery cross stitch sampler with flowers in simple stitches. Pattern 6128 includes a transfer pattern of a panel 113 by 15 inches, color chart and key, and materials list. Send 15 cents in stamps or coins to The Sewing Circle, Household Arts Dept., 259 W 14th St, New York City, with name and address.

Household Arts Dept 14Th St New York City

Coconut Cake Recipe Favorite of the Week

A complete coconut cake method with butter sugar egg yolks and whites coconut orange juice vanilla and orange extract. The batter uses cake flour soda baking powder salt and three siftings then alternates with orange juice and finishes with stiffly beaten egg whites baked in two nine inch pans and finished with boiled frosting.

Home Atmosphere Shapes Children’s Growth

A speaker urges shaping the home as a place where children grow into noble manhood and womanhood. Emphasizes that small acts like kind words, avoiding fault finding, and avoiding nagging create comfort rather than discomfort.

Pinkham's Compound Promises Nerve Relief for Women

Advertises Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a general system aid for nervous, irritable women. Claims over 60 years of use and more than one million testimonials. Emphasizes helping nature build resistance and calm nerves to ease female functional discomforts.

Doan Ray Grapple Ydia E. Pinkham Pinkham

Common Sweets And Sweets Grown Common Lose Their Delight

A brief reflection on changing tastes as familiar flavors fade in value and pleasure, echoing Shakespearean themes of sweetness and dwindling joy in stable things.

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