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Newspaper
The Potter Review
Location
Potter, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1941
Page
3
Practical household tips cover keeping curtains dry before starching and placing stove pot handles out of reach. Advice includes cleaning burned plates with salt, removing grease from book pages with benzene and blotting paper, and careful lemon zesting to avoid white pith. Also notes milk scorching, bread crumb handling, ice tray care, and freezer tray maintenance.
A famous writer Glesca Paine mentors Alice Merle at a Hamstead party. Alice accuses Paine’s work of lacking merit, but Paine reads a manuscript and discovers it is surprisingly good. The reveal shows Alice stole and rewrote Paine’s story, and Paine’s praise turns to mutual friendship.
Douglas Shearer of M.G.M. notes studio sound departments now depend on realism rather than magic. Microphones moved on booms replace fixed spots, cannons can fire under a mike with no harm, and many line items like dampening windows and muffling newspapers are standard. Even small details like ringing coins or baton swishes are managed to avoid noise, with hours spent solving issues.
Western Union messenger Robert Rafel, No. 297, rushing from the Madison Street door of the Chicago Daily News building, collided head first with a large pane of plate glass. He suffered only a slight cut on one arm, and glass valued about $1 was involved.
Cherie Nicholas surveys spring 1941 fashion trends highlighting longer jackets straighter skirts and modified shoulders. A notable Chinese influence appears in colors millinery and capes with green featured in jackets and innovative capes with colorful linings and coordinated turbans.
Learn to craft a matching turban and bag using polka dot 36 inch cotton pique or print silk. Requires three quarters yard fabric, half yard rayon taffeta lining, and half yard buckram reinforcement. Attach hem stitcher to finish edges for a professional look.
The article highlights new two piece dresses with bold flowery prints and gypsy style flair. It notes options include a full peasant skirt or an all around pleated skirt, both in bright, vivid patterns favored for young girls.
There is a gypsy charm about the new dresses in cotton, silk, linen or rayon. The skirt shows subtle fullness for a casual look, while the mono tone blouse top features black or navy jersey. Evening gowns use printed silk in splendent colors with a fitted bodice above a billowy mousseline skirt and appliques of flower clusters from the same print.
Fashion notes describe coats featuring dressmaker detail in light weight wool weaves that drape well. Allover self color braiding enhances pastel coats in oatmeal beige brown violet pastel blue and muted pink. Tucking and quilting create sprawling leaf and tendril patterns across fabrics.
Coats dresses capes and jackets now feature handsome plaids. New coolie jackets pair plaid tops with monotone skirts. Long plaid capes add drama with fringe epaulets as the season’s style touch.
A reader sketches moving a chest and building a long dressing table between two closets to restore room width. A wallpaper border softens angles, blue enameled accents match the border, and dressing stool skirts use snap fastener tape. Instructions and booklets for Home Making projects are offered by Mrs. Spears.
A housewife guides her new maid through upstairs rooms and down a staircase to the garden. She slips with a loud bang, but both insist she is unhurt. The maid quips that if that is the way to descend, the job is too strenuous.
A concise reflection on learning from history and its impact on wisdom wit mathematics philosophy morals logic and rhetoric attributed to Bacon noting how histories make men wise and poets witty and capable in debate
An old time advertisement promotes Dr Caldwell's Laxative Senna with Syrup Pepsin to wake lazy bowels and soothe the stomach. It claims constipation relief, gentle taste for children, and availability at druggists, urging readers to buy today.
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