Acacia Tree Memory Set Amid Roman Peril
Michal and her baby son Dan face Roman swords in their courtyard as Herod orders all Hebrew male children under two slain. In flashback, Michal grieves a cedar planted for a daughterless birth and longs to plant an acacia to erase the cedar. Joel confronts her as Malachi, Drusus, and Flavia drift through their strained ties.
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Jonathan
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Shedar
Adar
Drusus
Boaz
Lake of Asphaltites
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Answer to Previous Puzzle Former Actress
Horizontal and vertical clues mix a crossword style grid. Names, abbreviations, and common terms appear across 53 entries including places and measurements to solve. The puzzle references a former actress and a host of direction, value, and object clues for a completed grid.
Steinbeck Dutch edition aids resistance in Holland
Secret publication of John Steinbeck's The Moon Is Down raised funds for underground activities in the Netherlands. The limited edition translation titled The Flycatchers is praised for its quality, bound in vellum with illustrations, using pen names for translator and illustrator. Copies sold for about $40.
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Holland
John Steinbeck
Aprons Good For All Women This Christmas
The piece notes aprons as popular Christmas gifts for women workers and homemakers. It highlights bath and waterproof options with bibs, terry cloth, and simple patterns. It suggests practical features like wipeable surfaces and easy cleaning, and ends urging readers to read the Ada News Want Ads.
Postwar Pipe Dream Prompts National Sewer Plan
A national survey by the sanitary engineers division of the U S Public Health Service finds 13 915 of 16 752 U S communities require additional sewerage or treatment. The complete program costs an estimated 2 255 150 000 dollars for new systems plants and extensions.
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Washington
United States
Sanitary Engineers Division
U. S. Public Health Service
McKENNEY ON BRIDGE AND SEEING A CEASEFIRE
The column notes a bridge play misstep where South should have cashed the ace before ruffing hearts. A separate item briefly mentions a wartime scene with Japanese intruders halted during Judith Anderson’s stage appearance in New Guinea amid storms and a cautious audience.
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South
Judith Anderson
Carelessness ofthen loses a contract
In this bridge column William E. McKenney warns that carelessness can cost a contract. He cites a soldier story about risking life, then analyzes a hand where declarer misplayed trumps and hearts, leading to a failed contract.
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Pittsburgh
Mike
West
Postcard Arrives From Athens With Absurd Postage
A Denver dispatch on December 13 reports a postcard from Athens carrying an implausible postage of 6,000,000,000 drachmas. The strange item prompts curiosity about international mailing norms and currency values.
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Colo
Athens
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