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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1938
Page
2
Learn two color fillet crochet for knitting bags and purses with light foundation, navy or carmine stripes, and woven spaces. Directions cover starting the fillet mesh, weaving through rows, hiding ends, and finishing with a large blunt needle. Mrs Spears offers complete book references and embroidery stitches in Book 2 from Chicago.
C Houston Goudiss reports the Cake Recipe Contest drew many submissions. Home economists in New York test and taste cakes. winners will receive 25.00 first prize, five prizes of 10.00, and ten prizes of 5.00. Results will be announced in this paper and a national booklet.
Dress up daytime or summer evening dresses with a two strand lace bolero crochet. Pattern 1745 includes bolero directions and stitches illustration and material list. Send 15 cents for this sewing pattern to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept. 82 Eighth Ave New York NY.
A quotation from John Lubbock urges focus on reality and blessings to feel life is a glorious inheritance. It emphasizes avoiding trivial worries and maintaining steadfast purpose to appreciate true wealth in existence.
A list of practical home hints covers safe vacuuming by avoiding sharp contents, improving cookie flavor with jam, whitening white collars with borax, and making potatoes dry and fluffy by venting steam. It also suggests building backyard fireplaces for summer family gatherings and cooking activities.
A London Answers writer notes ancient knowledge endures despite science. Greek leatherwork produced a nearly impervious cuirass called pilema, Roman deep wells and undetermined boring methods, ancient glass that bends without breaking, and enduring cement. Egyptians mastered stone dressing and embalming with probes and forceps, secrets lost with Alexandria’s library in the Fifth century.
A concise reflection on how reading furnishes knowledge only when thinking connects ideas. Without thoughtful interpretation the material remains loose in the mind, not truly ours.
The Liverpool Post notes a book collector need not fear skeptics who ask if he has read them all. The charm of a library is diminished if one has read most of its contents, yet the collector should keep unopened volumes. He keeps them because they are good and hopes their turn will come when chance favors, saying Be patient.
A reflective quote urging readers to elevate thought and action beyond personal gratification. It encourages looking beyond one’s own lot to understand and respond to others’ troubles, advocating empathy and the pursuit of good in life.
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