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Newspaper
Renwick Times
Location
Renwick, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1937
Page
6
A farmer and his wife confront a rat invasion. After the barn rats vanish from the barn they move into the house, taunting their owners with boldness and theft. The farmer sets traps and blocks holes, but the rats outsmart them, gnawing new openings and spreading fear through the home.
A Queensland era recipe page presents methods for sweet cider jelly and a coconut cake with lemon rind. It outlines quantities for jelly using cider sugar pectin and paraffin seals, plus a coconut loaf and serving ideas with tomato watercress and dressing. A note from Wester Newspaper Unim.
RANCES MAULE offers guidance in her guidebook to working girls. The passage notes that crimson fingernails convey a snappy modern image, but questions whether the office audience is truly impressed by such details.
Poet Douglas Malloch laments a cluttered desk after tidying, losing track of items and misplacing the fountain pen. He notes the ongoing mail adds more clutter and imagines his space becoming a denser mess as he searches for glasses and other belongings.
An advertisement outlines simple wearable frocks with notched collar and yokes, praising future house dress designs. It promotes pattern 1206 and a fall pattern book, offering sizes 14 to 20 with yardage details and a home sewing guide, urging readers to order from The Sewing Circle Pattern, Chicago.
An antique column argues the middle and nail joints of the thumb reveal logic, meditation, and concentration. It discusses joint length symmetry, knuckle prominence, and says even lengths indicate sound judgment, while a knotty knuckle signals thorough, cautious decision making.
The fragment suggests a critique of employment bias where workers are advised to appear natural and conservative to impress bosses. It mentions Miss Maule recommending conservative makeup for women to be deemed valuable to the business, noting that attractive employees are still expected to look natural.
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