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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1944
Page
7
Sewing circle patterns offer Barbara Bell designs for a matronly frock and a one piece play set. Pattern No 1968 fits sizes 34 through 48 with a trim front panel for a slender torso. Pattern No 1988 covers ages 1 to 5 with a dress bonnet and simple yardage for 35 or 39 inch fabric.
Outdoor dining tips and simple cookery for picnics. Recipes include American Hamburgers Hot Cheese Frankfurters Creamy Scrambled Eggs and Fish Chowder with bacon and onions. Also roasted corn dessert cookies and fruit plus packing and fire-building advice.
Campers should boil drinking water to ensure safety while camping. Sparkling water may not be safe. An earth dug hole shaded by a tree lined with stones makes a makeshift outdoor refrigerator. Moist caves and underground streams can serve as cool storage. Always extinguish the campfire. Water and soil are emphasized as cooling and safety aids. A canoe paddle can be repurposed as a bread board or checker board.
Sewing Circle Needlecraft announces practical slip cover ideas with step by step directions in Instructions 796. High demand and wartime delays extend processing for popular pattern numbers. Send orders to Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept Chicago with 15 cents plus one cent mailing for Pattern No. Name.
The article explains how about 270 fish species including cuttlefish use jet propulsion by expelling water from gill slits to move. Their tails and fins stay still while steering, and when misdirected they brake by drawing in water and expelling it through the mouth.
A collection of practical kitchen and sewing hacks includes hanging a bag in the sewing room for scraps, wrapping apples in newspaper before storage, and quartered lemons as garnish for baked beans. It also covers thinning dog meals, and darning sweaters with backing netting to reinforce large holes.
Five questions cover historic objects and people. Cleopatra's Needle location and historical note are queried. The first Lady born in England, the final book of the Old Testament in King James version, and Fred Allen's real name are asked. The Great Commoner, Bakelite origin, Galapagos Islands location, Hatfields and McCoys home, and annual salt intake per person are included.
The set lists six items with answers: 6 Henry Clay. 7 synthetic resin. 8 six hundred miles off the coast of Ecuador. 9 West Virginia and Kentucky. 10 the average American uses six pounds of salt a year to season foods and receives about as much again from processed foods.
In 1944 some states will use four or five ballots and Vermont seven, all of which must be marked by each voter within the five minutes allowed in the voting booth.
The list itemizes five Q and A style prompts. An obelisk, Mrs. John Quincy Adams born in London of an American father, Malachi, the phrase to bore a hole, and John F. Sullivan.
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