Uncle Oscar’s misadventures and a final sea crossing
A reminiscence of Uncle Oscar’s absent mindedness includes colliding with a freight train and gambling at a roulette table with a croupier, followed by a ferry trip from Petosky to Chicago. The tale ends with a note on magnetic disturbances in the upper atmosphere affecting short wave radio signals.
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Uncle Oscar
Moving Picture Theater
Oscar
Burdelia
Chicago
Petosky
Aunt Burdelia
Earth
The Reader's Courtroom Slender of a Slur Case
Harold a contractor faced a slander dispute after saying one of his employees was a crook. The office manager sued claiming harm from a cloud of suspicion cast on many. The court ruled no damages since no specific person was named and harm to a single individual was not shown.
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Harold
Aluminum Firms' Merger Approved by Stockholders
Stockholders of American Metal Climax Kawneer Co and Apex Smelting Co approved a three way merger at special meetings. The finalization was expected Friday and the merged entity Amax will enter the aluminum business for the first time.
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NEW York
API
American Metal Climax, Inc
Kawneer Co
Apex Smelting Co
Kawneer
Apex
Amax
Points for Parents Explain World News to Children
A father tells his daughter that headlines are hard to understand and urges using a map to explain current world conditions. He argues children worry less when parents provide explanation rather than letting them guess from headlines.
Daily Crossword Across and Down Puzzle Clues
A newspaper style clue list covers numerous crossword entries with definitions for across and down words, including terms like abyss, stir up, innate pronouns, and ship terms, plus a cryptogram challenge with a Henry Wadsworth Longfellow quote system and a published 1962 Cicero quotation.
A wartime style riddle and limerick mix
A collection of laughs opens with a worried wife telling her doctor her husband acts like George Washington then jokes about him chopping the cherry tree. A wise man and bumpkin trade riddles on a bus with playful bets and a missing answer. The verse ends with a Newport News limerick and a 1969 Bennett Cerf note from King Features Syndicate.
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Sien
George Washington
A. Bilgewasser
Newport News
Goa
Bennett Cerf
King Features Syndicate
Diet group ideas shared by Josephine Lowman reader
A reader outlines forming a weight loss group modeled after a club she joined. Members discuss eating and emotional issues, follow nonmedicated plans, and use a penalty fund to motivate loss. The note invites others to join and requests leaflets from Josephine Lowman.
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Josephine Lowman
Diets Anonymous
Fat Girls Club
Alcoholics Anonymous
Joe E. Brown Collapses From Heat at Allegheny Fair
Pittsburgh AP UP I Joe E Brown 71 master of ceremonies at the Allegheny County Fair was overcome by 90 degree heat and ordered to stay in his hotel room. He cancelled his opening performance and doctors doubt he can appear tomorrow. Brown quipped I am not an old man to feel young.
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Pittsburgh
UPI
Joe EB. Brown
Brown
Joe L
Pittsburgh Pirates
Fair Grounds
Preserving foliage with glycerine solution
Use one part glycerine to two parts water to treat stems. Crush stem ends and place in the solution, adding water as the mix evaporates. When the foliage turns tan and pliable, the treatment is complete and the material remains usable indefinitely.
Inhumane neighbor trouble and garden wars
Harassed writes of 13 years of neighbor meddling with property and attacked trees. Helen advises organizing a block beautification effort led by a landscape gardener and cites a Swiss example to deflect conflict and rally community support.
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Helen
Montreux
Lake Geneva
Roger Blank
France
Italy
Germany
Lake Front
Switzerland
Geneva Vevey
Charlie Chaplin
Lausanne
Spain
Rogér Blank
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