Inventory of Replacing and Refurbishing Home Items for New Year
Homemakers seek a fresh look at year start by replacing worn items or refurbishing existing ones. Create an inventory to rank tasks, note desired new pieces, and spot budget friendly steps. Use clearance sales for favorable prices on lamp shades furniture and other essentials. Bell Syndicate. WNU Service.
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Bell Syndicate
WNU
Wichita
Kans
Chicago
Philadelphia
Los Angeles
Gargle This Way with Bayer Aspirin
An ad claims a sore throat remedy using Bayer Aspirin dissolved in water for gargling. Instructions say to gargle twice with a half to one third glass of water, promising fast relief and doctor approval. It urges buying Bayer Aspirin by full name and offers pricing for two dozen tablets.
World’s Largest Casino Tips Record Revealed
Collier's Weekly notes that the world’s biggest tips go to croupiers in gambling casinos. It cites 1929 Le Touquet casino in France where tips to a few table managers reached about $65,000 per week.
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le Touquet
France
Collier’s Weekly
The Stranger at the Gate Christmas Visit
Ira Vance and his wife await word from their son Emery about visiting for Christmas at the Glen House. Emery, a busy executive, delays return as Eleanor longs for family. A mysterious visitor arrives with a message: The Stranger is at the gate.
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Ira Vance
Emery
Eleanor
Tommy
Bess
Glen
Vance
Ira
Mrs. Vance
Kitty Mack
Philip Knox
Amande
Vances
Conflict and secrecy shape Vance’s uneasy office hour
Vance confronts The Stranger about Hess and loyalty as Kitty Mack delivers work updates. Eleanor urges home, and a mother’s letter stirs Vance’s resolve while a Christmas Glen invitation looms, all amid pressures of mastery and secrecy.
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Tiberius
Hess
Hell
Vance
Kitty Mack
Busy Sunbonnet Girls Embroidered Tea Towels Pattern 918
Seven sunbonnet maidens illustrated for a simple tea towel design. Transfer pattern includes seven motifs about 5 by 7 inches, stitch guides, color ideas, and material needs. Send 15 cents in stamps to The Sewing Circle Needles Dept. New York address for pattern details.
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Sewing Circle Needles Dept
Eighth Ave
New Y N. Y
No Stain Upon the Wing of Time in Honest Living
The piece extols living with propriety and kindness, urging reflection on a past year to avoid staining the passage of time. It counsels avoiding envy, resisting mean stories about others, and valuing true, concrete friendships over imagined perfection.
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Cowper
Acta
First Hot Air Balloon Flight Sparks Aviation Age
The early Montgolfier brothers flew the first hot air balloon in 1783 with a sheep a duck and a rooster aboard. Pilatre de Rozier and the Marquis d Arlandes later crossed Paris in the same year. Hydrogen discovery soon made hot air bags obsolete.
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Joseph Montgolier
Paris
Pilatre de Rozier
d’Arlandes
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Boyne
U. S
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Miss Mack
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Perera
Longinus
OTR
Othiegi
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Quaker State
Quaker State Oil Refining Corporation
Oil City
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Quaker State Motor Oil
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