Calendars Go Homey and Double as Cookbooks say experts
1983 calendar production in the United States tops 100 million dollars as calendars double as home guides and homemaking files. Osborne Co executive vice president Charles H. Parton notes demand for art calendars with practical homemaking content, expanding home economics research and editorial work. Businesses supply families with about three calendars yearly for kitchen bedroom and living areas. Best sellers mix scenery religion American history with babies animals and pretty girls.
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U. S
Charles H. Parton
Osborne Co
Parton
Christmas Shopping Trends Across Cities Show Shifting Tastes
Shopping districts are crowded driving shuttle-bus service for patrons. Philadelphia bans central city parking while stores struggle to move furniture and rugs amid uncertain futures. Republican gains boost higher income spending, while plush boutiques report strong Christmas sales. White Plains touts high per capita retail sales and 10 percent expected growth. Atlanta shifts from TV sets to soft goods and luxury items. Richmond foresees record volume and merchandise for the season.
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Philadelphia
Washington
Fifth Avenue
New York
Michigan Boulevard
Chicago
John C. Bailey
Chamber of Commerce
White Plains
N. Y
New York City
Atlanta
Richmond
Alfred Thompson
Miller & Rhoads
Whitacre Store Remodeled With Front Post Office Move
W. C. Whitacre Sons in Whitacre completes interior remodeling of the old store. A partition halves the space, displays heavy stock in the front, and creates a back room for livestock feeds and other goods. The post office has moved to a front corner, Fred Whitacre is postmaster. The building is owned by Fred, Landon, and John Whitacre.
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Whitacre
W. C. Whitacre Sons
Fred Whitacre
Landon Whitacre
John Whitacre
Salvation Army Celebrates Busy Christmas Week
The Salvation Army and Lt. and Mrs. Lynn Wiseman host a week of community caroling and gift giving across Winchester and Frederick County. Activities include visits to the Negro Day Nursery the City jail Hillcrest and Virginia Avenue Nursing Homes the Negro Prison Camp and a Front Royal Santa party with Forty and Eight Club support. A Sunday Christmas service at 7 30 p m features recitations songs and a playlet in the Salvation Army chapel.
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Salvation Army
Lynn Wiseman
Negro Day Nursery
S. Loudoun St
Hillcrest Nursing Home
Virginia Avenue Nursing Home
Negro Prison Camp
Santa Claus
Front Royal
Winchester
Frederick County
Federated Council of Church Women
McCrory’s
Piccadilly St
Wallace Ll
The Last Leaf by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The quoted poem line appears in The Last Leaf by Oliver Wendell Holmes. The excerpt notes the speaker as the last leaf on the family tree with a refrain about clinging to the forsaken bough as spring returns.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Hog Killing Done After Canning Ends At Cross Junction
Cross Junction residents completed the annual hog-killing Monday in the Braithwaite Brothers Cannery basement. Twenty six hogs owned by seven families were converted into hams bacon sausage and lard after the cannery finished apple butter production. E W Braithwaite notes a bountiful apple crop increased output including Shawnee Brand apple butter with twelve thousand cases canned this year.
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Cross Junction
Braithwaite Brothers Cannery
Max and
Paul Braithwaite
E. W. Braithwaite
R. G
J S. Braithwaite
E. W Braithwaite
Cannery
Braithwaite Cannery Reports Apple Butter and Peach Output
The Braithwaite cannery processes selected Braithwaite orchard apples into butter by washing blending pulping and five boilings with sugar and spices. Earlier in the season Shawnee Brand peaches were canned. This season's output reached 9000 cases with 24 cans per case.
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Braithwaite
Cannery
E. W. Braithwaite
Forest near Sherwood under cultivation
A considerable portion of the ancient English forest near Sherwood has been brought under cultivation, sparking questions about the preservation of Robin Hood’s scene. The report notes the landscape’s transformation and the ongoing tension between farming and heritage.
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Sherwood Forest
Robin Hood
J. EB. W
Unnamed ancient hunting ground found near Mansfield Wentworth
Remains near Mansfield and Wentworth at Wharncliffe indicate a historic hunting ground once favored by several kings.
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Mansfield
Wentworth and
Wharncliffe
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