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Newspaper
Reporter Boyden
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1937
Page
7
Cleopatra's Fan quilt pattern uses palm leaf inspired blocks to create a striking 9½ inch design. Includes complete cutting sewing and finishing instructions yardage chart and diagrams for single and double bed sizes. Send 15 cents to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept 82 Eighth Ave New York with name address and pattern number.
Favorite Recipe of the Week presents a pumpkin custard using canned pumpkin with ginger nutmeg and cinnamon. Mix with eggs milk and sugar, pour into a baking pan set in a water bath and bake ~45 minutes at 375 degrees. Chill and unmold onto a chop platter before serving.
In a nostalgic reminiscence from the Western Newspaper Union era, a little girl writes Santa for a doll with a new head. The piece recalls doll heads of china metal and papier mache, cloth bodies filled with sawdust, and the shift from dressed to undressed dolls as cost and inspection mattered.
John Carlson recalls his mother offering to make gingerbread dolls for the Christmas window display. The dolls, grouped into families, draw strong interest and sales, bringing joy and a sense of giving beyond money.
Cornpone Joe Beasley lurks near Old Whetstone waiting to raid Asa Bright's pearl haul on the Black River. Dupree the Frenchman caches shells and a pearl worth a thousand dollars. Joe is caught by Safe Ball and jailed as dawn reveals the prize he missed due to laziness.
The swamp white oak known to botanists as Quercus bicolor has two leaf colors summer dark green on top and white beneath. Leaves are not deeply lobed and are wedge shaped at the base. Acorns grow in pairs and appear at ends of two inch stems. Mature trees measure two to three feet in diameter and 60 to 70 feet tall. Native to much of the northeastern quarter of the country. Wood resembles ordinary white oak and is used for the same purposes.
After Rome surrendered to the French in 1848 Garibaldi addressed his troops in St Peter's square offering hunger cold and death if they followed him. Four thousand men agreed to leave from the Lateran gate and march.
In Nigeria locals sometimes view twins as devil spawned and poison or expose one twin or the mother. Missionaries rescue and nurse the endangered children back to health, highlighting ongoing cultural mistreatment of twins in some communities.
A collection of witty exchanges and quips featuring neighbors, lending, shelves, and a child’s mispronunciations. A humorous anecdote shows a boy confronted by a jungle myth and a girl recalling her first year speech delay.
A globe trotter brags about his world trip and the Nile ascent. A listener questions the value of his sights, and the traveler quips that it’s good form not to wear a watch with a dress suit. The humor centers on timing and luxury travel.
In the scene Peggy suggests the Morton twins as party guests and Grandma notes they are exactly alike, making it unnecessary to ask both twins.
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