In the Time of Roses themed spring tea plan
A newsletter item guides refreshment committees to host a spring tea with rose motifs. It lists menu ideas including various tea sandwiches and shortcake style cakes, plus mints and nuts, and provides recipes for Bishop's Bread, Butter Ovals, Little Swedish Tea Cakes, Almond Filling, and other baked goods. It promotes Eleanor Howe's Easy Entertaining cookbook for further ideas and recipes.
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Eleanor Howe
North
Michigan Avenue
Chicago
Ilinois
Western
Union
Firearm boom and foreign policy notes from wartime column
Washington reports warn of a rising gun trade and unaccounted firearms amid efforts to register private weapons. Biden era style note details U S arms sales 1938 39 totals and Mussolini risks while Roosevelt moves to aid allies and political intrigue plays out along the border with hints of staff fears and fortification proposals.
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Washington
D. C
U. 8
Bob Jackson
Fifth Columns
Jackson
Internal Revenue Bureau
U. S
England
France
Germany
Italy
Japan
Barbara Bell Pattern No 1971 B Dress Design
The pattern outlines a slim hip and high bust silhouette with a fitted bodice, long darts, gathered shoulders, and paneled skirt. It accommodates sizes 34 through 46 and uses 4½ yards of 39 inch material for size 36 with no nap. Send order to the noted address.
Ask Me Another General Quiz History and Trivia
Questions cover classical orations by who delivered the first philippics. It asks longest and shortest verses in the Bible. It asks Suomi as another name for which people. It asks the best slop on a merchant ship. It asks how many states allow women to serve on juries. It asks term for a person who always tells his troubles and finds no pleasure in life.
Answers and topics from a mixed source list
The items cover figures and terms from ancient and modern contexts. Demosthenes and Philip of Macedon are noted for orations opposing Philip. Esther 8 9 and John 11 35 are cited as biblical verses. Suomi is identified as a term for Finns. A clothing store note includes a garbled phrase about suing the crew. Jury service data notes that 24 states plus DC permit women to serve. A technical term is given as an he donist with common usage as grouch.
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Demosthenes
Philip of
Macedon
Esther
St. John
States
District of Columbia
Origins of cattle brands legend linked to Burk Burnett
A Collier’s tale claims the famous 6666 brand came from Burk Burnett winning his Texas ranch in a poker game with four sixes in 1900. The piece notes many Western cattle brand origins are legends rather than fact.
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West
Burk Burnett
Great
Texas
Collier’s
The Tale Bearer Proverb Warns On Gossip Fading Strife
An old proverb notes that without a tale-bearer there is no fire and without gossip there is no strife. It emphasizes how rumor sustains conflict and how its absence quiets discord.
Kent and Blades Forgive Faults
Two individuals quarrel over petty faults but cannot stay enemies if they refuse to forgive each other. A quoted aphorism from La Bruyère emphasizes tempering grudges with mercy.
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la Bruyere
Dangerous Passions and the Means to Obey
A fragment argues passions possess independent force, making blind obedience risky. It stresses that impulses drive actions beyond reason, challenging one to balance desire with judgment and restraint. The piece questions moral control when passions overshadow duty.
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Italy
Germany
U. S
Near East
Iraq
Suez Canal
Iran
Anglo-Iranian Company
Mediterranean
Britain
France
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United States
Alf Landon
Josh Lee
Oklahoma
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
W. Wacker Dr
Ato
Kent ! Blades
Herbert Spencer
Gaye Weeres
Kellecg
Neugete
Enett
Aiceusas
Kellogg's
Battle Creek
La_ Rochefou
Michieles Freese
Eric
George Dean Cewart
Chi- Detroit
Cleveland
Mackinackeland
Richter
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