Coffee Craft Tricks and Homemade Perks From 1940s Guide
A vintage guide explains fresh coffee importance, grind sizes, and two main brewing methods. It covers drip and percolator setups, measuring with cups, and maintaining heat without overcooking. Includes recipes for frozen coffee desserts and coffee flavored toppings.
Dips Spurs and Angles a Guide to Self and Career
The article uses the phrase dips spurs and angles to symbolize complete ownership and knowledge of property. It urges clear self assessment, specializing early, building relevant competence, and presenting past performance to win employment, while noting changing party loyalty and voter engagement over time.
Decorating a Welcoming Front Hall Passage
A detailed look at an 8 by 15 foot entrance passage shows how to create interest without high cost. A tapestry, brass vase, prints, a small bookcase with antique lamps, and Japanese wall art brighten walls and light the space. The reception hall features an antique oak monk seat, an oil painting, chairs, and a hall table with a card salver.
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Arras
Bell Syndicate
WNN
Rose Design Crochet Bag for Home Makers
Advertisement for a Rose crochet knitting bag with a 10 by 13 inch pocket. Package No 749 includes brown cotton, illustration, and diagrams for mesh counting, sent postpaid for 10 cents. Full package with instructions thread and crochet hook offered postpaid for 40 cents. handles not included. Home Craft Co Dept B St Louis Mo. Include stamped self addressed envelope.
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Address Home Craft Co
Dept. B. Nineteenth and
St. Louis Ave
St. Louis
German crosses English Channel in amphibian auto
A German driver completed a voyage in an amphibian automobile from Calais to Dover in eight hours and twenty minutes then reached London. The craft uses rear paddle wheels for water travel at about five mph and land speed near twenty mph, with water level even with the running board.
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English Channel
Calais
Dover
London
Germany
A Soft Answer Arguing Turns to Quarreling When Voice Rises
The saying notes that calm words lose impact as tempers rise. It warns that a soft answer can sour into conflict when voices are raised, affecting negotiations and relationships.
Silk Topper Is Doomed in Dying Trade
Tit Bits Magazine notes silk hats will vanish as mass production cannot replace the skilled work of body-bakers, trimmers, finishers, and shapers. Each topper is handmade through a long apprenticeship, with body, brim, top, and plush cover crafted on a calfeio core. As experts retire, only a few hundred remain, signaling decline.
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Tit- Bits
Westminster freshmen face Bible test odd answers
Westminster College freshmen in New Wilmington Pa gave unusual responses on a Bible test identifying the epistles as wives of the apostles and stating that Revolutions is the Bible’s last chapter while declaring Lazarus a city in Palestine.
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Bright
Westminster College
New Wilmington
Lazarus
Palestine
Observation on Genius, Nature, and Art by Pope
The passage argues that true artists imitate nature and that geniuses feel nature more keenly. It contrasts such observers with common minds, who prefer artificial refinements and view the most unnatural as finest. The quote attributes these views to Pope and reflects on talent and taste.
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Pope
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