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Newspaper
Reporter Boyden
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1948
Page
3
Readers get quick, fresh ideas for picnic meals with simple, carryable dishes. Advice emphasizes balanced, easy prep with sturdy sandwich fillings, seasonal fruit, and square style cakes. Includes several tested sandwich recipes like Savory Ham-Vegetable and Eye Salad variations.
Lynn Chambers presents a picnic menu with ham and vegetable sandwiches egg salad sandwiches deviled eggs whole tomatoes grapes or watermelon and lemonade. Recipes include deviled eggs with butter mustard vinegar and mayonnaise and a chilling step. Seasonal fruits and easy cookies accompany the plan with tips on serving melon and cucumber salmon salad and peach almond chicken salad ideas.
Fashion tips show how to alter dresses with button removals and metal or gold trim belts to refresh classic styles. Suggestions include dyeing pastel dresses, adding bias tape or rick rack to skirts, and incorporating plaid trims to brighten dark wardrobes.
The article guides on updating garments with eyelet edging and buttonwork. It covers diagonal button patterns on sleeves and pockets, banding on prints, band trims for jackets, and bows to tie trims to outfits, stressing matching button size and avoiding overuse on wide skirts.
A vintage style guide suggests serving shrimp salad in cucumber cups or green pepper rings with tomato wedges and deviled eggs. Melons marinated in lime juice complement crisp lettuce. Pimiento cups make an inventive vessel for egg and celery salad.
The article praises seasonless sheets in black or navy and a design with back fullness. An apron bow accentuates the back silhouette while a simple bodice foregrounds the dramatic skirt, suggesting a promising future fashion development.
Advertisement describes a young smoothly styled two piece dress with pretty detail pattern No. 8303 in sizes 12 14 16 18 20 and pattern No. 8237 in sizes 12 14 16 18 20 24 with short or three quarter sleeves. It promotes fall and winter fashion and offers a free pattern printed inside the book for 25 cents plus address.
Yale professor Theodore Sizer calls for information on John Trumbull paintings to complete a nationwide checklist. The effort follows Yale Library's acquisition of Trumbull's notebook and builds on Sizer's extensive study of the patriot-artist's works. Col Trumbull designed Yale Gallery, linking Yale to Revolutionary-era art.
Neptune notes about 4500 drownings yearly in the United States. Many occur when people enter water for the first time in a season. Winter and spring inactivity weakens muscles making swimmers susceptible to fatigue and risky actions.
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