How to Curtain a Group of Windows
Reader asks Ruth Wyeth Spears for plain valance ideas for three windows with a davenport in front. Advice favors cream glass curtains across the three windows and overdrapes at the ends to dress the living room.
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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1939
Page
2
Reader asks Ruth Wyeth Spears for plain valance ideas for three windows with a davenport in front. Advice favors cream glass curtains across the three windows and overdrapes at the ends to dress the living room.
Instructions describe striped tan green blue drapery fabric and fringe. four inch wide valance board with bracket screws. ordinary metal rods under the board. plain valance six inches deep stiffened with crinoline interlining and tacking fold. Includes book recommendations Mrs Spears offers autographs and pricing 25 cents.
Not a news article but a concise quotation on deliberate progress and patient preparation, emphasizing that long journeys and distant honors are achievable through steady effort.
In a tense scene at a castle, Virgil and Elsa plot to remove Elizabeth Virgil with Elgar aiding. The narrator narrowly exposes the plan when a harp falls, drawing unwanted attention and delaying pursuit. Elsa is guarded, Elizabeth is seized by Elgar, and Virgil hints at a lasting betrayal as the confrontation ends with an ominous escape.
Japanese youths celebrate the Boys festival with carp streamers as a symbol of audacity and resilience. Parents display colored cotton or silk carp tied to hooks or poles, one large carp per son, evolving from a 250 year old burgher custom to rival armed class displays.
The Marseillaise likely originated in Strasbourg rather than Marseille as mayor complaints spurred a marching song for troops. Rouget de Lisle wrote the lyrics, while music authorship remains doubtful. It debuted April 29, 1792, at a Garde Nationale review and rose to fame when sung by Republican troops at the Tuileries assault months later.
Four strand crocheted rug in shell stitch with center and four corners in three colors or black white and color. Includes instructions illustrations materials and color schemes. Send 15 cents and name address pattern 6243 to The Sewing Circle NY.
Calvin Coolidge recalls his mother’s death on her thirty ninth birthday and the ensuing family losses. He describes the boy’s grief, the burial in March snows, and the later deaths of sister and father close in time, shaping his lifelong view of loss.
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