Practical and Pretty At-Home Wearables
Home sewing guide offers comfortable dress and aprons for indoor wear. Slenderizing House Dress features easy darts and front fastening for simple construction. Three Pretty Aprons protect outfits and suit gifts or bridge prizes. Patterns 1615 and 1595 provide sizes and fabric needs. Fall and Winter Pattern Book showcased with order details and prices.
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Batiste
Lawn
Dimity
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
W. Wacker Dr
Chicago
Ill
Bell Syndicate
WNU
Gold Prospecting Through History and Methods
The article traces early gold seeking from alluvial beds to sheep skin methods. Prospectors rigged skins weighted with boulders to trap gold dust carried by the stream, illustrating 6,000 years of labor and evolving techniques in gold discovery.
Breathing Exercises Aid Many Asthma Cases, Doctor Says
A medical overview explains that asthma often runs in families and can be helped by avoiding triggers and desensitization. It cites breathing exercises promoted by the Asthma Research Council of Great Britain, with King's College Hospital noting 1937 results: 40 percent vanished or became minor, about 30 percent improved, and 30 percent unchanged.
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Asthma Research Council of Great Britain
Asthma Research Council
King’s College, Strand
London
W. Co. 2
England
King’s College Hospital
Gland Theory of Acne Discussed by Doctors
A medical discussion links acne to multiple glands and age related development. Pituitary and pancreatic extracts are cited as treatments, with Lawrence and Wortis reporting successes. Viosterol rich in vitamin D is noted to boost body processes and aid skin health.
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C. H. Lawrence
Journal of the American Medical Association
Joseph Wortis
Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital
New York
Bell Syndicate
WNU
Rug making tips from Lewiy 7 home decor book
Reader letters describe rug making using felt pieces to form a large rug. A snapshot shows a finished rug 34 by inches with center circles of felt cut from old hats and pennants, joined with heavy thread. Also notes on other home decor projects and available books by Mrs. Spears in Chicago.
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Dea
Spears
Daplaines St
Chicago
Tornado Path Directions and Multiple Funnels Reported
The weather service notes tornado paths usually run southwest to northeast but have moved in other directions. Tornadoes often form in families with multiple funnels. six funnels were seen in Wichita County Kansas on June 19, 1934, and as many as 15 funnels have occurred at once, each reaching the ground causing damage.
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United States
Wichita
Kannada
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King George
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James H. Fay
Sixteenth
John J. O'Connor
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Labor Service Corps
Zeppelin Meadow
Nuremberg
Fletcher Bowron
Los Angeles
Frank L. Shaw
Bowron
Walter von Hutschler
Pimm
Hamburg
Germany
San Diego
Hanse Weise
New Farm Credit
F. F. Hill
Farm Credit Administration
William I. Myers
Cornell University
Elsie England
Iva Fortin
Seattle
Ben Paris
Imperial Valley Desert
California
Desert
James W. Barton
Dr. Barton
ADARK
Ydie E
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