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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1948
Page
3
Woman offers practical mending ideas turning repairs into creative craft. Use embroidery, darning, and decorative bands to hide flaws on sweaters dresses and sheets. Suggests patching pockets, adding flower designs, and repurposing worn textiles into towels and doilies.
Night and Day describes cutting towels into hand or guest sizes with appliques and decorative trims. It advises saving usable fabric from worn items for washcloths and pot holders and offers patching ideas for overalls dresses and gloves with stitches trims pockets and seaming tips.
Crisp sheets and fine cottons dominate summer fashion with a blend of past appeal and modern sleekness. A model showcases exquisite Egyptian cotton organdie with embroidered bands echoing turn of the century style.
A Washington report notes Gov. Thomas E. Dewey’s blunt denial of any deal with living persons after accepting the Republican nomination. The piece discusses rifts with Pennsylvania liberals, the ouster of Carroll Reece as GOP chair, Scott Jr. as National chairman, and speculation on Edward Martin joining Dewey’s cabinet. It also critiques the party platforms for omitting atomic energy and signals the campaign need to present clear positions.
The piece weighs the likelihood of Governor Dewey facing resistance from his own party in the House, mirroring Roosevelt’s clashes with recalcitrant Democrats. It notes Southern Democrats and Republicans blocked Truman’s agenda, shaping two Congresses, while criticizing a planned $50,000 study on monopoly trends as duplicative and wasteful.
The article argues the issues are set with Democratic leadership keeping the GOP candidates tied to the record of the 80th Congress. It asserts the record will define the campaign, what it did, failed to do, and what it might do later. Prices are emphasized as the single most important domestic concern affecting all wallets.
Associated Press columnist notes secret missions and political chatter as Times Square billboards sit blank. Broadway thrives on sun and humidity with cash strapped shows relying on presale tickets while Ziegfeld theater gets a facelift and industry gears for a summer season of revivals and new glimpses behind the scenes.
Two cafe society women exit a night club in Midtown and stroll in Central Park. They spot a baby and admire it, then discover the infant is one woman’s daughter after the nurse’s identification, prompting astonishment.
A fragment describes crowded kilocycles with treasure hunts and a jokey medal for politeness to a DJ who thanks a singer after a spin. It notes ABC newscaster Harrison Wood with sinewy tones and Hollywood’s post show compliments. NBC’s Serenade to America is praised as a tasty musical meringue.
Wisconsin FFA chapters and Kraft report twelve advantages of grass silage for dairy operations. Benefits include up to 30 percent more protein preserved in alfalfa, no crop loss from rain during haying, orderly storage, even labor, weed seed viabilities reduced, easier erosion and pest control, preservation of feed value in weeds, fall rest for pastures, and increased vitamins and color in winter milk and butter versus corn silage or sun-cured hay.
National wheat champion W. A. Brown of Pierce Colorado and his son Norman visit the University of Minnesota where Dr J J Christiansen explains disease control as they hold tiny fungus dishes. Tom Ridley of Langdon North Dakota, a national reserve champion, appears with durum wheat in the 13 state competition.
The passage notes Israel’s internal difficulties and compares to other nations that faced domestic troubles during struggles for freedom. It recalls that after the Revolutionary War began, 25 000 Americans enlisted in the British army.
Virgil Scott's The Hickory Stick, due this fall from Morrow, is billed as a book that could unsettle small town school systems. Scott teaches at Michigan State College, East Lansing. Oscar Walders retires to pen an autobiography with titles From the Cradle to the Gravy and From Alphabet Soup to Nuts. Artie Shaw, ex bandleader and Amber ex, enters writing with a novel, a musical comedy book, and a play in progress.
Sheep dipping guidelines advise fasting the sheep for hours before dipping. Do not dip heated sheep on arrival. Do not dip if open wounds exist. Do not immerse the sheep head first. Prepare the bath per package instructions and mix thoroughly.
Songwriter George Long releases three wartime tunes Eisenhower the Man of the Hour We Want Truman Four Years More and We'll Do It With Dewey reflecting political appeal and humor in the election era.
Veterinarians at Iowa State College warn that young cocklebur seedlings are poisonous to swine. The danger increases with shorter pastures as hogs raid fields for green feed. Preventative action includes keeping hogs out of areas where cocklebur is present until eradicated.
The reader asks six trivia questions spanning math counting on pine trees and doughnut consumption, a fact about the world’s largest printing plant, color psychology for file storage, the唯一 insect capable of fertilizing clover, and which states have legalized divorce.
A pine tree yields over 300 board feet of lumber and enough plank to make a million matches, illustrating how much usable material remains beyond match production.
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