Reader's Oartroom: Local Ties and Odd News
A collage of social notes from Mrs. Irene Sanders at the Anderson Hotel to Catherine Leicht becoming treasurer of the Democratic women’s group, plus wedding anniversaries, travel plans to Juarez for a bullfight, a Florida rumor about Bob Bright, and a courtroom quip about George and a railroad incident. The column blends community happenings, personal anecdotes, and light legal commentary from early 1900s Anderson.
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Anderson Hotel
Irene Sanders
St. John's
Schuyler Hancock
Catherine Leicht
Truman Swain
Democratic Women’s Organization
Catherine
Jack Henricks
Schlever Pump
Sports Car Authority
Anthrew E. Graf
Anderson “Public Library
Ora
Tink
Raines
Don Alleman
el Paso
Juarez
Don
Delores Eads
Dr. C. Merrell Hudson & Co
Harry Finley
Florida
Bob Bright
Fort Myers
Harold Ant
Herson
John Cherney
East Side
Insects on vegetables use vinegar or borax wash
Readers suggest adding a little vinegar or borax to washing water to surface live insects quickly.
Culligan Softwater Service Ad Listing
Local utility ad for Culligan Softwater Service at 815 John Street offering water treatment solutions. Contact phone number 77571 for consultations and installation details.
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John St. , Ph
Daily Across 4 Quarter Tess Slippers Puzzle
A dense cryptogram page presents across and down clues with misprints and partial words. It includes a cryptoquote puzzle with a substitution system and a sample quote by Longfellow and a Shakespearean style line attributed to Walt Disney's Scamp.
Bewildered Beauty Chapter Thirteen Dinner Invitations
In a tense exchange Mrs. Wickart urges patience while Hank vents frustration over running rents and foreclosing mortgages. The topic shifts to three dinner invitations from Mrs. Archibald, Mrs. Runyon, and Mrs. Conover, whose daughters Hank’s mother says are being steered toward marriage. Hank retorts with sarcasm about the social scene.
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Hank
Enid
Leslie
Joyce
Mrs. Wickart
Tnid
Chiggers and romance collide in small town tale
The piece blends a home remedy for chiggers with a melodrama of Hank, Joyce, and Enid. Hank plans a dinner with Enid to end their trouble while Joyce confronts love for Marty. Office life, car talk, and family pressure thread through the action in a midcentury newspaper fragment.
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Joyce
Marty
Enid
Hank
Dot
Phil
Jaune Chiefdarnd
Household Scraps and Cleaning Tips From A Fragment
A vintage household column offers practical cleaning guidance. It suggests a borax solution for washing walls, avoiding soap, and recommends drying woolen blankets by line and beating them soft after drying. It also advises lemon juice to remove oil and grease stains from brown or tan shoes.
Bankrun Plans and Quiet Office Mystery
Joyce agrees to six o'clock pickup after Marty retrieves the money sack and bank books from the safe. Enid notes Joyce’s sudden singing and asks about a raise, while Joyce dodges with casual remarks as events hint at upcoming errands and a bank visit before closing.
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Joyce
Marty
Enid
Stop Me ROM CHICAGO humor and fashion quips
A humorous collage notes a husband worried by business decline suggesting his wife fire the maid and do housework, Zsa Zsa Gabor defends ladies fashion, and a department store ad touts a closeout of 1884 girdles and panty girdies.
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Chicago
the New Yorker
Bennett Cerf
King Features Syndicate
Tom and Jerry ages in a classic problem
A 1930s bulletin style item notes Tom is four fifths of Jerry now and will be three fourths of Jerry in eighteen years. Solving yields Tom twenty five? The source gives a quirky calculation but concludes Tom is eighteen and Jerry thirty.
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Tom
Jerry
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