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Dennison's Bogie Book -- A 1924 Guide for Vintage Decorating and Entertaining at Halloween and Thanksgiving (12th Edition) 
by Dennison Mfg Co.

{softcover, 33 pages, 5.5x8.5, 2009, ISBN: 1936049228}

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Originally published in 1924, this Bogie Book features the following ideas and suggestions for planning and decorating for vintage Halloween and Thanksgiving celebrations:

- giving a Halloween party
- Halloween card party
- "when east meets west"
- refreshments for the halloween party
- club meeting or church supper
- club party or dinner dance
- planning a Halloween dance
- gay or weird costumes for a Halloween party (for plans and
  instructions for more Halloween costumes, please see our
  Dennison Costume listings)
- games and stunts including: eating apples from a string, fatal
  blow, palmistry, boots without shoes, pumpkin dance for
  children, bad luck dance and much more
- a fantastic game with rhyming poem where items are passed to
  guests pretending to be teeth, ears, hands, etc. of a murdered
  man
- harvest party
- Thanksgiving party

Centerpieces, favors and novelty suggestions and ideas fill this book as well as instructions for making rows of petals or scallops in crepe, making fluted edges, making fringed crepe, and wrapping wires to make each of your projects a success. This book also includes all of the original price lists for the Dennison stock goods (cut-outs, napkins, crepe paper, caps, place cards, gummed silhouettes, etc) -- perfect for the collector of vintage Dennison ephemera.