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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1946
Page
11
A holiday guidance piece outlines how to stage a festive Christmas dinner with color and family warmth. It includes advance planning, make ahead desserts and rolls, and detailed recipes such as Cranberry Relish Salad and Plum Pudding, with step by step cooking times and ingredients.
A homemaking piece encourages readers to crochet Christmas gifts to delight girls and sisters. It lists supplies, stitches, and step by step instructions for a doll bunting bonnet and a decorative cap, highlighting reusable materials and simple patterns for fast, personal gifts.
Pattern No. 8096 offers a side-buttoned princess style for ages 3 to 8 with easy seaming and optional ruffles. Also notes fall and winter fashion designs, farm frocks, and home-making sections with a free belt pattern. Advertisement pushes cigarettes and pipe tobacco as Christmas gifts with holiday wrap and dealer promotions.
Lynn suggests a traditional Christmas with a well trimmed tree and plenty of treats. Decorate with red and white candy canes and cookies shaped as stars wreaths trees and snowmen flavored with ginger and spices and frosted with colored sugars.
The article describes decorating tips for a traditional Christmas tree with gold or silver star toppers made from metallic paper on cardboard. It offers instructions for making popcorn chains with a slender needle and cotton thread and warns children not to pull too hard. It also suggests using heavier thread for cranberry chains.
The article suggests decorating with Christmas cards tied with red and green ribbons on the tree or displayed in a bulletin board. It advises dressing the table with large white candles tied with red or green ribbons and blue and white ornaments. Wrap gifts at the door with red and green or blue oil cloth and a large red bow.
Fashion notes predict modified flaring for new skirt lines usable with dresses and fitted coats. Black remains dominant while muted pastels and washed tones gain interest. Casual three quarter jackets pair with tailored dresses as tie backed gowns and jeweled straps elevate evening wear.
A study of 12 bear markets on the national stock exchanges from 1899 to 1942 finds they averaged one year and six months in length and saw securities drop about 46 percent in value on average.
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