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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1938
Page
7
Brief penny press style items show a girl correcting her cousin on ain t versus isn t and a child dreaming of three desserts a day to keep the doctor away. Quick jokes about an uprising orator and a heckler with alarm clocks appear alongside a joke about a man blaming luck on his wife.
Read about antique handcrafts including quilts and embroidery stitches. A leaflet offers authentic patchwork techniques and a Mrs Spears sewing booklet with 48 pages of step by step directions for home projects and a 25 cent postpaid copy.
The text explains why stars appear fixed to the eye, noting all stars are in motion and describing the term morning star for planets Jupiter Mars Saturn and Venus when they rise before the sun. It identifies Sirius the Dog Star in Canis Major and Betelgeuse in Orion, noting Betelgeuse’s volume is about 30 million times that of the sun.
Cleaning hair brushes requires a quart of water with a teaspoon of ammonia, then rinse and sun-dry. Fluffy meringue gets a teaspoon of baking powder folded into beaten whites before sugar. A sweet omelet benefits from one tablespoon of sugar in the batter. Parsley stays flavorful when washed in hot water before chopping. For gas lamps, polish glass globes with methylated spirit on a soft rag after a brief rest.
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