My dear Millicent guides a wife through a crisis
Kathleen Norris counsels a Seattle reader facing a mid war summer of doubt as her husband pursues a 17 year old office romance while one steps toward returning son Jim, crippled, and two Navy brothers loom. Focus on centering the home on Jim senior though and on shaping Leslie and the household for the wounded heir's needs.
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Kathleen Norris
Seattle
Wash
Jim
Leslie
Fritzi
Millicent
Miss Norris
Laughton and Welles Through the Public Eye
A compact look at Charles Laughton and Orson Welles as enduring Hollywood icons. The piece notes Laughton’s fearless range from Nero to Henry VIII and hints at Canterville Ghost doubts, while praising Welles for Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons. It also mentions Water Pigeon, Greer Garson pairings, Bing Crosby praise, and Karloff’s rise to Broadway, urging readers to value long careers instead of easy mockery.
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Charles Laughton
Charles
Hollywood
Orson Welles
Charley Laughton
Orson
Mercury Theater
Water Pidgeon
Broadway
Walter
Greer Garson
Bill Powell
Powell
Mix-Match Furniture Sparks Designer Interest
The Painter and Decorator reports a novel line of mix-match furniture from a large manufacturer. Chairs, buffets, and tables appear in varied finishes such as brown black white Pompeian red green yellow and turquoise. Finishes are lacquered to a piano-like sheen chosen by an expert decorator.
Fruit Preparation and Processing Guide
A concise guide outlining practical methods for preparing and processing fruit. Includes steps for washing peeling slicing and preserving fruit for storage and culinary use. Emphasizes safety hygiene and efficient workflow in kitchen or production settings.
Fruit Canning Guide for Home Preservation in Wartime
Home canning of fruits is safer and simpler than vegetables due to acidity. Use hot water bath or pressure canner, sterilize equipment, select peak fruit, prepare syrups, pack hot jars, seal, and process according to the chart. Open kettle method warned against unless experienced. wartime restrictions limit canning supplies.
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Gwen Canning
Lynn Sets Canning Figures For Home Preservation
A column offers practical canning calculations for home use detailing jar and fruit yields. It lists apples apricots berries cheries grapes peaches pears pineapples plums and tomatoes with yields in quarts and pints per unit and per bushel or crate. The guidance emphasizes balancing jars and contents before starting the canning process.
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Maule
Star Under Observation of Rose Franken Play
Martha Scott, cast as Soldier's Wife, is a house guest of Rose. The play will feature traits learned from their time together, including Martha’s dressing habits. The first thing she puts on is a hat, and it is the last thing she removes, even in nightgown she wears a hat.
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Rose Franken
Martha Scott
Rose
Martha
Household Tips From a Century Past
Simple speed hacks for maintenance and mending. Loosen nuts with daily kerosene sprays for days before work. Clean coffee stains by percolating salted water. Create a piece bag for dated garments with saved zippers and ribbons. Fold and iron handkerchiefs into triangles or squares for quick identification. Make tassels by wrapping yarn on cardboard and tying off top.
Sharp Rebuke Brings Back Home Memories in Barn Story
A man enters a restaurant leaves the door open. A large patron yells for him to shut the door. The door is closed. The eater sits, then the big man apologizes. The man explains he was raised in a barn and the bray of a donkey makes him feel homesick.
Summer Days Play Clothes for Young Children
Comfortable three piece set includes overalls sun-salt and bolero in light blue denims and cheerful fabrics. Barbara Bell Pattern No. 100 Index covers sizes 1 to 6 years. Size 2 jacket and slacks require 14 yards of fabric. order details follow.
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Barbara Bell
Raindrop’s journey forms hailstone layers explained
A hailstone forms as a raindrop rises and falls between warm and cold air currents. Each movement coats the drop with moisture then freezes, creating visible concentric layers when the stone is cut open. The layers reveal how many times the drop was lifted before it fell.
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Collier’s
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Be Syndicate
WIN Features
Ed Douglas Ryan
Jim Senior
Fritzie
Nero
Henry the Eighth
Bing Crosby
Bing
Sroaner
Goris Karloff
Mann
Lynn Chambers
Aliss Lynn Chambers
South Desplaines Street
Chicago
Ilinois
Vator
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
South Wells St
Wisconsin
Wacom
Milwaukee
Makerere
Ulade
Deer Fuail Lodge
Noxgals
Harpford Junction
Wis
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