Bridge Slam Fails as Team Misses Chance in Yellow Pines Contest
In a four team contest a team led by Mr. Champion and Mr. Dale faced the Uptown club's South dealer. After a tense bidding sequence South led to a slam attempt that failed, leaving Champion frustrated while Dale explained the defensive breakdown and the improbable defense that held despite optimism. The remarks hint at a tough hand with a double seven card suit and diamond distribution influencing the play.
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Dale
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Mr. Champion
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Household Scrapbook Offers Quick Face Care and Tricks
A 1955 column blends beauty tips with casual chatter. It advises applying ant egg white as an astringent for about 20 minutes to tighten tissues and remove stains. The piece also shares a teeth stain method, mentions a card game anecdote, and notes February 1955 highway contract data totaling $28.46.
Home Remedy Q and A for Furniture Scratches and Friction
The article offers home techniques to fix scratches on furniture using camphorated oil walnut and polish. It also covers removing sticking drawers with soap and lard and cleaning a clogged chimney by burning potato peels or tin scraps.
WISHING WELL ERE A Puzzle Message From a Feather Arman Vin
A quirky postage style puzzle previews a daily fortune read via a numeric method. It asks to count letters in a name, adjust by simple rules, locate key numbers in a grid, and read the letters under checked squares to reveal a message.
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de Willan de Miller
Arman Vin
Dear Miss Woodward Advice Column Encourages Overcoming Shyness
An 18 year old writes asking how to date and overcome extreme shyness. Advice suggests pairing with a sympathetic or lively girl to gain courage, followed by social mixing with friends to reduce nervousness and improve conversation. The reader is urged to self reflect and take action.
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Miss Woodward
Ages in a Puzzle and Island Tribute
A math word problem gives Tom age relation and a past condition, yielding Tom sixteen and Jerry twelve. The text then notes England owning a Hawaiian Island hit and a monument to Capt John Cook on Hawaii with a tiny plot claimed. it adds a line about fifty thousand blind persons in the Gold Coast.
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Hawaiian Islands
Hawaii
John Cook
Gold Coast
Try and Stop Me by Bennett Cerf
Fragmentary humorous notes and anecdotes attributed to Bennett Cerf include quips about John Paul Jones and a muttered pirate line, a grocer receiving a money order with a cheese theft joke, and a Victor Borge autobiographical bit about spring arriving.
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Victor Borge
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