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Newspaper
Scandia Journal
Location
Scandia, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1944
Page
7
A festive wedding note extols June nuptials with emphasis on beauty and gaiety despite rationing. It details bridal traditions and a complete shower menu including a Bride’s Shower Cake and Strawberry Icing, plus step by step preparation for a layered fruit salad mold and delicate sponge cake.
A recipe collection describes a wedding breakfast buffet with a chicken pot pie serving for four, plus cake frosting, biscuits, and ornamental butter frosting. It mentions a meat roasting chart by Miss Lynn Chambers and requests a stamped self addressed envelope for a reply, released by Western Newspaper Union.
The text emphasizes the bride as the focus of a wedding. It prescribes white flowers and linens for the repast, a central wedding cake as the main decoration, and the bride and groom seated together at the head of the family breakfast table.
The Wallace visit to Generalissimo Chiang Kai shek in wartime Washington signals renewed goodwill and practical aid hopes. Chinese officials expect improved understanding in America and relief through urgent goods imports, aspirin, and price stabilization as Burma operations connect Ledo and Burma roads.
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1964 offers a dignified frock in soft rayon crepes and cottons. It features a lap-over side closure for easy wear and ranges from sizes 34 to 48. The two-piece pinafore inspired dress suits young slender figures and can be made in rayon silk taffeta or similar fabrics.
A set of trivia prompts asks about Alaska versus Texas size, Arlington National Shrine origin, Don Quixote tilting at windmills, the round table in King Arthur legends, whether soldiers could vote absentee, the Grand Banks location, the meaning of the dol drums, and the distinction between a patriot and a patriarch.
Alaska is twice as large Gen Robert E Lee Don Quixote To avoid any distinction of rank Yes Union soldiers in the field during the Civil war were permitted to vote Newfoundland Those tropical zones of the ocean where calms or baffling winds prevail a becalmed state A patriot is one who loves and is devoted to his country A patri arch is the founder or head of a family or an aged man.
Japanese education minister announced plans to extend thought control by boosting local Thought Measure Research Societies and by providing thought training to industrial leaders and students. Rivalry also noted between Burmese and immigrant Indians, with Indians seen as more experienced professionals and thrifty workers.
Pattern No. 8619 offered in sizes 11 13 15 17 and 19. The size 13 ruffled version needs 4 yards of 39 inch material with ruffles, 373 yards of plain material, and 3 yards of contrast for the collar.
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