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Newspaper
Troy Record
Location
Troy, New York, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1949
Page
7
The article details maternity fashion for fall featuring eased midriff lines, looser jackets, velvet trims, and versatile pieces like adaptable coat dresses in faille with velvet belts. Designers promote taffeta dresses and outfits that flatter expectant mothers, promising high fashion with practical expansion and cost savings.
Do not shell fresh lima beans until you are ready to use them as vitamin C degrades during shelling. Keep the bean pods refrigerated until cooking to preserve nutrients and freshness.
A fashion piece by Beth Blair discusses underwear and foundation garments in relation to outfits. It mentions strapless bras and undergarment essentials for wearing sheer yoke gowns and similar styles.
A vintage crochet catalog fragment promotes a 21 inch doily pattern 7121 with charted directions and photos plus easy to crochet accessories and a needlework book. It lists pricing twenty cents for patterns and fifteen cents for the needlework catalog, with request for name address and pattern number.
A fragment advises irritated AL feet from new shoes be soothed with soaking in hot water olive oil and gentle pressure on sore areas. It suggests dry briskly with a soft towel and to cool feet before retying, attributed to a local town quack.
A column styled as a homemaker advice piece vents about rising food and living costs. It critiques gender roles and dating signals tied to spending, notes high meat prices and scarce cheap foods, and urges men to join shopping to find affordable, nutritious options.
A reader asks how to move on from an ex after eight months and whether to rekindle. The response advises showing goodwill, avoiding initiating contact, and letting time or new interests help decide if reconciliation is possible. If not, pursue new friendships and focus on personal growth.
A period piece outlines renting paintings to enliven homes with credits toward purchase. It notes galleries offering rental services for eighteenth to twentieth century masters, with photos and full details on colors and sizes. Rentals let households test art before buying and suit varied interior schemes.
Elegant footwear becomes a focal point as shortening skirts return to fashion. The new collections emphasize open or closed styles with elegance as the key note. Rich fabrics such as brocades velvets anlins and textured suedes dominate late afternoon and evening wear with simple, dramatic styling.
A mixed page offers home gardening guidance on asparagus care and winter rose protection, plus stump removal methods and saltpeter fueled burning. It also touches on adoption decisions, noting agencies, child background concerns, and the importance of healthy stock and intelligence, urging hopeful parents to pursue adoption if needed.
Salvage soap scraps by grinding and dissolving in boiling water. Add whiting to form a paste that cleans porcelain without scratching. Purchase whiting from hardware paint or drug stores.
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