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Newspaper
Reporter Boyden
Location
Boyden, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1941
Page
3
A column answers readers on hot water heating, damp plaster, skunk control, asphalt paint, garage building, bathroom walls, ivory staining, preserving books, and cleaning artificial leather. Practical, era specific advice covers coils, insulation, storage heaters, moth flakes, and simple finishing techniques.
A nostalgic Mother's Day feature recalls home cooking from past decades, sharing treasured recipes such as Sour Cream Devil's Food Cake, Felicity Frosting, Fig Oaties, and Crackers Made With Yeast. It urges honoring mothers by trying these vintage dishes and memories of bakeware, family dinners, and the art of shared desserts.
A fragment from an 1879 home guide offers tips for today’s homemakers. It recommends scraping irons with a clam shell using wood ashes, sweeping carpets with fresh snow, saving tea leaves to brighten dark carpets, and dusting woodwork with a turkey feather. It also suggests pound washing clothes with a mid sized masher, using a wringer, grinding hot coffee beans, and mastering traditional dishes like Jenny Lind Cake and Parsnip Pie.
A fashion note describes a silhouette with a sweetheart neckline soft bodice drapery and a slim corselet waistline with graceful skirt fullness. It recommends fabrics such as silk print crepe taffeta or sheets and Pattern No 8895 in sizes 12 to 20 with size 14 listed and fabric yardage for 39 inch fabric. Send order to.
Willie asks questions during a playful visit as a portly guest answers with patient explanations about bricks iron flour and finally jokes that people are made of dust and earth. The boy quips that a big hole must have been made when they took him out.
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