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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1954
Page
3
A reader Mrs F W shares a homey column urging families to spice evenings with simple treats. She recalls using popcorn apples or fudge as a center floor dish and provides two tested fudge recipes Chocolate Fudge and Divinity Fudge with steps and tips. Readers are invited to submit their own family favorites for publication.
Speaking Of Books surveys practical guides for buying, building, and remodeling homes. It highlights titles from planning basics to cost estimates, site and floor plans, and “build it yourself” guides, noting works by Dunham, Thalberg, Cobb, Leckey, Morris, Riley, and Wright, plus extensive catalogs of house plans and design references.
A periodical column mixes personal musings on home life fashion and love with quirky anecdotes. It notes reader letters praising the author and discusses topics from jewelry tastes to marriage insurance and a humorous soap box tradition. It mentions a family with nine daughters and a four year old’s home helper habit.
Miami report details Blanche Morse filing for divorce from Kenneth Morse, an employee of Pan American. The article shifts to a 1920s fashion display, describing Mrs. James Ebert’s ownership of a beaded black satin gown and other era gowns from the Troxel and Elyria estates, including accessories and parasols.
Ahead of spring and springtime sewing, Bernice Gwin discusses sewing machine ease of use and adaptability. The feature notes national Week aims to boost sewing tasks with versatile patterns and ready access to patterns for teen junior misses women and half sizes. It argues clothes made at home offer professional fit and fashion assets, with pattern selection guiding success.
Paris designers and textile makers push rose prints for 1954 summer fashion. Fabrics from silk to cotton pique feature large and small rose motifs in pink red beige blue and metallic threads. Shops promise practical sewing aids from interfacing to steam irons and easy dressmaking tools to help homesewers achieve professional finishes.
Judith Lynn Smolko, four and a half, lives with Mr. and Mrs. John F. Smolko at 211 Herrick Avenue East, Wellington. She enjoys painting and crayon work and looks forward to starting school in September as fall plans for the youngster brighten.
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