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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1936
Page
10
An elderly observer recalls the Old Days versus the Jazz Age. Grandmother and granddaughter Genevieve debate modern youth and parental control while reminiscing about chaperones, bustles, and the music of earlier times. The exchange lampoons shifting norms and tastes across eras.
The piece argues history is often colored by biographers and memoirs, citing Napoleon, George Washington, and Bonnie Prince Charlie. It details Flora MacDonald’s escape mission after Culloden, noting factual contrasts to sensational writes and calling for clearer records.
A simple to sew gay cotton print dress pattern for little maidens with a French bodice panel and flared skirt. Details include a contrast collar with ruffled edging and puff sleeves. Barbara Bell Pattern No 1882 B offered in sizes 2 4 6 8 10. order from The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept 149 New Montgomery Ave San Francisco CA.
Household Questionings offers quick guidance on making deviled ham biscuits for picnics, watering umbrella plants in summer, shaping cutting radish roses, polishing silver, softening flannel with borax, buying spices in small packs, controlling lilac suckers with linoleum, and adding baking powder to mashed potatoes for lightness. Associated Newspapers WNU Service.
Hans Nagel, curator of the Houston Zoo, recalls eight years in Africa seeking reptiles and birds for museums. In captivity he suffered many injuries from lions, storks, kangaroos, civet cats, bobcats, hyenas, elephants, and the zoo's alligator Big Jim.
A terse quotation attributed to Herbert Hoover contrasts idealism with action, warning that mere words without deeds undermine ideal goals. The line emphasizes pragmatic action over rhetoric in public life.
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