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Newspaper
Rolfe Arrow
Location
Rolfe, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1935
Page
5
The pattern adapts filet crochet to two squares that can be used together or separately for cloths, bedspreads, or scarves. It uses string or mercerized cotton for different sizes. Pattern 5695 provides instructions charts and an illustration. Send 15 cents to The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept. to obtain it.
A reflective column discusses traits like zest, enterprise, vigor, and faith as character, notes on bravery among Native men, and questions gender roles and divorce. It warns against pride as self harm, cautions of eccentricities becoming imbecilities with age, and suggests people prefer room for their own will.
Narrates California’s transformation from frontier province to prosperous state. From early settlers and diverse immigrant communities to Sutter, the Mother Lode, and the railroads, it highlights how mining spurred farms, towns, law, and industry, ending with Sacramento’s growth into a rail and canning hub.
A man famed for mimicry tries a buzzing bee imitation on his wife. He pauses at the dining room door and asks lifelike, dear. She replies in mockery that it sounds more like a cow, ending the gag with a sharp retort.
A dialogue proposes forming a stock company to sell oceanfront lots. The speaker imagines water-filled stock parcels and brisk investor interest.
A sleeping husband wakes to a mouse in the bedroom as his wife fears the squeak and asks for help. He retorts by asking if she wants him to oil it, revealing a tense morning scene in a domestic setting.
A motorist lectures a woman on car brakes, explaining the hand lever stops rear wheels and the floor pedal stops all four. She replies she would rather none be broken, highlighting a comic misinterpretation of vehicle controls.
A light humor snippet from Smith's Weekly features a wife bragging she must persuade her obstinate husband that she is always right, illustrating domestic wit and comic tone in a brief caption.
The skipper asks if any man cannot swim and the bosun replies one, the carpenter's mate. The skipper declares the ship is going down and jokes that the carpenter should start building a boat.
Mrs. A remarks on the beauty of a couple's dancing while Mrs. B muses about the partner’s husband, hinting at a secret link or personal interest in the gathering.
In Sea Terms a parson boasts he married three couples in 15 minutes, prompting the captain to quip that is 10 knots an hour. The exchange highlights brisk wedding duties aboard.
A light exchange in LExchange humorously notes a year of no repairs or upkeep on a car, while a friend mentions a service station man’s remarks. The brief quip highlights a gap between claimed maintenance neglect and expected auto care.
A playful quip shows a fond aunt condemning modern dating norms while contrasting with strict expectations from past decades. The exchange presents a young woman and her boyfriend facing doubts about commitment amid social admonitions.
A fragmented OCR moment shows a beggar pleading for spare parts and a woman facing a tense door scene. The dialogue hints at loss and desperation as the beggar asks for a left leg while another character proclaims the missing item isn’t there.
A historian notes a castle that has stood for six centuries with no stone altered or moved. The guide describes preserved architecture and urges visitors to respect the site under the same landlord, despite odd crowd remarks.
The piece recounts Samuel Hawken and his gunsmithing partner brother Jacob in 19th century St Louis. It notes Hawken’s one fixed price of 25 dollars, his hand built rifles from iron strips, and the fame of their craft along the frontier. It mentions Jacob’s death in 1849, Samuel’s sale in 1859, and his later years returning to the shop where he helped finish a rifle now owned by the Missouri Historical Society.
The Georgia signer Button Gwinnett, who died in 1777, has the rarest autograph among the Declaration of Independence signers. Collectors like Dr. A S W Rosenbach paid record sums through the 1920s for Gwinnett signatures on wills notes and a marine committee letter, peaking at $51,000 in 1927.
A faded recipe and housekeeping tips spread across a single page item. It includes hints on roasting peanuts with chocolate sauce and vanilla ice cream, warming methods for fabrics, and a white sauce recipe with flour and salt. The piece reflects practical kitchen guidance and faded editorial voice.
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