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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1947
Page
11
Neat and trim frock patterns with back opening and multiple sleeve options. Pattern No. 820 offered in sizes 12 through 20 with fabric specification for size 14. Also included is lingerie set Pattern No. 8198 for sizes 36 through 52 with fabric amounts for slip and panties.
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The Union ship Kearsarge sank the Confederate cruiser Alabama in European waters off Cherbourg France. The event was recorded as a decisive Union victory with strategic impact during the Civil War era.
The article explains Francis Scott Key watched the flag during the perilous fight and the flag then had fifteen stripes. It notes that from 1795 to 1818 the flag carried fifteen alternating red and white stripes with two extra stripes representing the states Vermont and Kentucky admitted in 1791 and 1792.
The Todas of southern India a tribe of 700 aborigines who still permit brothers and friends to have wives devote little time to a profitable occupation as they are supported largely by a neighboring tribe which regards them with superstitious veneration. The Todas themselves worship the cow and their temple is a dairy presided over by their chief holy man who de sanctifies sacred milk before its distribution.
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