Come to the Fair and Meet These Charmers
The Texas Centennial exposition opens in Dallas on June 6 with a group of 25 charmers greeting visitors. Officials promise a lively welcome and themed displays highlighting Texas heritage and progress at the fairground gates.
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Dallas
Attractive and Simple Rag Rug by Grandmother Clark
This design shows a 32 inch rug crochet project using about 80 pounds of rug to crochet. Each section is crocheted separately and then slip stitched together. The Arbor Window rug should be colored to match room furnishings and is one of twenty rugs in rug book No 24 from Home Craft Co. Send fifteen cents for the book or twenty-five cents for hook and book to Dept C, St. Louis.
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Clark
Home Craft Co
Dept. C
Nineteenth and St. Louis Ave
St. Louis
Like Father Like Son Dark Hallway Murder Suggestion
A father confesses a fearful urge to harm a new maid but advises a secluded spot. His son, a freshman, recalls the hall being dark and the maid mistaking the father for someone else.
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Fred
Beard License Tax in Russia Records 1725 Token
A historical artifact shows a beard license from 1725 issued under Peter the Great era rules. The copper tag bears the inscription Tax paid on beard on one side and likely features a date and state insignia on the other as part of early efforts to enforce European shaving norms.
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Russia
Pukov
State Museum
Peter the Great
Household Hints and Cleaning Tips From The Era
Practical advice for kitchen and cleaning tasks from an old service column. How to remove white spots from wood, cook and rinse rice, shine silver, prepare poultices with potatoes, broil meat with door open, and use soap flakes with kerosene as a tub cleaner.
Snug Bloomers to Protect the Tots in Winter Frocks
Mother centered warmth for children ages two to ten with snug wool bloomers worn under frocks. Pattern 9621 offers sizes 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10. Requires 2 1/2 yards of 36 inch fabric and 1/2 yard contrast. Send fifteen cents to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept. at 232 W Eighteenth St New York NY with name address style number and size. Complete diagrammed sew chart included.
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Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
Eighteenth St
New York
N. Y
Bible Name Pizlum Siv Quoted At Colored Farm
Judge Ed Thomas of Camdenton Missouri recounts traveling in the South when he stopped at a colored man’s farmstead to ask directions. A colored woman answers by calling her son “Pizlum Siv” and claims the name comes from the Bible, showing the book to prove it.
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Ed Thomas
Camdenton
Pizlum
Memoir fragment shows confusion and memory gaps at Atlantic City
A dialogue excerpt traces a memory lapse as one person asks about a past acquaintance in Atlantic City. The speaker recalls tipping many people there and struggles to remember names and details while another discusses bridge and a wife’s game.
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Atlantic City
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