Refurbishing the Home New Year Fresh Look
Homemakers seek a fresh start for the home at year’s turn by replacing worn items or refurbishing existing pieces. Make an inventory, rank priorities, and exploit clearance sales for good values to update lighting, furniture, and cushions. Bell Syndicate WNU Service.
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Largest casino tips astonish at Le Touquet in 1929
Collier's Weekly notes tips to croupiers in French gambling casinos reached $65,000 weekly at Le Touquet in 1929. A small group of table managers received these extraordinary gratuities from players winning large sums.
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le Touquet
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Just Gargle This Way with Bayer Aspirin
A home remedy promotes gargling three Bayer Aspirin tablets dissolved in one third glass of water to soothe sore throat. It claims instant pain relief and rawness reduction and urges buying Bayer Aspirin by full name at 25 cents for 24 tablets.
The Stranger at the Gate Christmas Visit
Ira Vance waits for a reply to letters inviting Emery Vance Eleanor and children to the Glen home for Christmas. Emery, a city executive, has not returned in five years. A stranger arrives claiming to be The Stranger, and Vance feels a strange rapport as tensions with Eleanor and his company surface.
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Eleanor
Tommy
Bess
Glen
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Ira
Mrs. Vance
Kitty Mack
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Amande
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Hess and the Master’s Word Clash in Vance’s Office
Vance debates Hess’s motive and a possible breach of trust as The Stranger probes his ethics. Kitty Mack delivers a message about an inner meeting and Eleanor asks for a home dinner, while a Christmas plan from Vance’s mother stirs hidden loyalties and memory.
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Busy Sunbonnet Girls Pattern for Seven Tea Towels
Seven small sunbonnet figures to embroider on tea towels using outline stitches lazy daisy running stitch and French knots. pattern 918 includes transfer motifs about 5 by 7 inches color suggestions and required notions. Send name address pattern number and 15 cents to The Sewing Circle Needleage Dept 82 Eighth Ave New York NY.
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Siam
Neediecee Dept
Features of Gentility and Reflections on Character
The piece offers maxims on living well, stressing propriety, consideration for others, and avoiding envy. It contrasts beauty with skill in dignity and notes the value of honest friendship. It uses animal analogies to illustrate refinement and restraint.
First Hot Air Balloon Flight and Early Trials
The first hot air balloon was developed by Joseph Montgolfier based on the idea that hot air rising could lift a craft. A sheep a duck and a rooster rode the pilot flight in Paris in 1783 followed months later by two men Pilatre de Rozi and the Marquis d Arc voyage. Hydrogen's discovery as a lifting gas soon made hot air balloons obsolete.
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Paris
Pilatre de Rozi
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