Four Piece Bookcase For Your Living Room
Build a modern sectional bookcase setup to add color and warmth to living spaces. Pattern No. sent for 0 cents from Rac BNT Water Company in Phasintville New York. Readily built with no special tools, these units can line a wall or corner and adapt to center placements. Materials are inexpensive and available at lumber yards. instructions specify timing and usage of each part.
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Rac
BNT Water Company
Dept. W
Phasintville
N.Y
Kitchen tips from a bygone era in homemaking notes
Practical household hints cover dress pattern securing with tape, mending with top, using leftover ham in scalloped potatoes, packing soup in lunch boxes, and hearty soups like split pea, fish chowder, and cream soup. Advice on thread choice for mending gloves, cautions about pearl oyster texture, and stovetop oyster stews cooked over simmering water.
Old Game and the New Football Compared Across Eras
In a weekend reflection, the author contrasts Pudge Heffelfinger and Shep Homans with modern players, arguing today’s football is quicker and rougher while old timers showed stamina. He cites injuries among top backs like Walker, Brennan, and Justice, and notes era shifts in speed, records, and gear.
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Pudge Heffelfinger
Pudge
Yale
Minneapolis
Heffelfinger
Walter Eckersall
Eckin
Doyk Walker
SMU
Stuart and Stephenson
Army
Sitka
Brennan
Notre Dame
Charley Justice
Carl Snavely
Mirror Mind Views on Health and Work and Allergies
Practically everyone retains a mind mirror in youth, but mistreatment leads to temper, tyranny, or resentment. A worker may self-punish to ease insecurity, while women fear dirt and drown in minor chores. Not all allergies are mental. Abramson notes three types and urges combined psychological and medical care.
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Harold A. Abramson
Keeping Healthy Tonsils Play an Important Role
A health warning cautions against removing healthy enlarged tonsils. Tonsils filter poisons and organisms from blood, protect children during early illness, and usually disappear after age 10. Removal is rarely needed unless there is active infection with pus in the blood.
Health Notes on Teeth Feet and Blood Pressure
Health notes link dental infections to systemic issues from tonsils to joints. Doctors emphasize feet health as vital to life quality. Epilepsy now more controllable with many patients free of attacks. Age correlates with blood pressure norms. foot care viewed as a good investment.
New Year Greeting Poem Promises Joy and Friendship
A reflective verse asks what you bring for the new year happiness, joy, and a balm for heartaches. It wishes welcome and trust in shared dreams, casting aside past ills as the book of year begins.
Strange New Year Beliefs Still Exist Over England and Scotland
Widespread village superstitions mark New Year with rites and omens. The first visitor, or first foot, dictates luck for the house. dark-haired men often act as omen collectors. Herefordshire notes say the first drink at midnight promises a husband, and sharing warmth or light is considered unlucky.
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England
Scotland
Herefordshire
Pins as New Year Gifts Through English History
The piece traces gifts from 1698 satire to Jonson and notes traditional New Year offerings like blue coat servants with orange and rosemary, oranges, nutmeg and gilded apples. It recalls the origin of "pin money" as a modern gift tradition replacing pins, and cites ladies of fashion favoring pins since the sixteenth century.
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Bishop Hall
Ben Jonson
Saint Sylvester Feast Day Marks End of Year
Saint Sylvester's Day marks year end observed by Roman and Anglican churches on December 31. In Germany and Belgium the day is religiously observed in the morning and celebrated with horseplay in the afternoon and evening as New Year nears.
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Sylvester
St. Sylvester
Germany
Belgium
New Year's Day Celebrations Through History
New Year's with open houses parties exchanging New Year cards and greetings is one of the oldest celebrations. The holiday has been observed since ancient times and marked by gifts greetings and good wishes through history.
Inauguration Day Echoes on New Congress Crowd
As the 81st Congress convenes at noon on January 3, mixed emotions sweep members, relatives, and spectators. Freshmen seek impact while voters gauge the election results. reporters note the hundreds of congressional staffers and a guest list shaped by party politics and presidential inaugurations.
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Washington
Congress
New
Congressional Staffing Shifts Highlight Patronage Role
The piece notes job losses and new appointments as Democrats prepare to take control in Congress. John Andrews of Salem presides at opening. WH Newlin Megill and Eugene Sharkoff long serve in clerk's offices. Ralph Roberta slated to succeed Andrews. In the Senate, Arthur Vandenberg to preside briefly with McKellar anticipated as president pro tempore, while Carl Loeffler likely exits as Loeffler’s memoirs loom.
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John Andrews
Salem
Mass
House
Congress
WH. Newlin Megill
Washington
Eugene F. Sharkoff
Journal
J. O. Shanks
Ralph Roberta
Indiana
Andrews
Senate
Arthur Vandenberg
Michigan
Kenneth McKellar
Tennessee
Senator McKellar
Carter Glass
Virginia
Carl A. LoeMer
Leslie Biffie
Carl Loeffler
Lock Haven
Cama
United States Senate
Benjamin Harrison
Woodland Scene Wall Panel Pattern 7011
Pretty woodland needlework pattern offered for 15 cents with transfer panel 15 by 20 inches. Includes natural color design and framing option. Our Needlework book promises guidance for spare moments and provides a free pattern printed within.
London tobacconists feature women’s pipes in design
London tobacconists have begun to showcase women’s pipes with slender stems and half-sized bowls. Not many are gold, but shopkeepers argue that a cigarette shortage may push more women to try pipe smoking.
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London
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Waterton
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American Cancer Society
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New York
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Shep Homans
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N. J
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Princeston
Shep
Homans
Princeton
Glen Davis
Snake
Walsh
Johnson
Mathewson
Alexander
Grantland Rice
Lawrence Gould
Science
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Alenburg
STICA
Yous Ney Newborn King
Gen- Hemen
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Truman
Sewing Circle
W. Randolph St
Chicago
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