Sizzling One Liners and Quick Quips At Large
A satirical strip of quick quotes and jokes from Washington Star style humor. Bits include puns about fashion fire sales roach powder and fly swatters. A brief exchange features a brick wall device joke ending with a pun about china and travel.
Practical Youth Is Sadly Misunderstood
A scoutmaster asks a tenderfoot to fetch a turnip from Farmer Brown. After about twenty minutes Brown arrives in a panic, claiming one of the boys has gone mad and is pulling up turnips and trying on the hats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brown
Spanish Government Fights Rebels Near Madrid and South
Reports from multiple sources indicate the Spanish government is countering General Mola’s northern advance toward Madrid, bombing rebel strongholds and winning key victories at Caspe and Oviedo while Franco’s promised southern push stalls. Claude G. Bowers aided expelled diplomats without injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mola
Madrid
Cordoba
Seville
Ceuta
Melilla
Morocco
Caspe
Guadarrama
Fuentarrabia
Bowers
Repudiate Debts If Lemke Loses Say Coughlin
At a William Lemke celebration in Hankinson North Dakota Father Charles E Coughlin urged listeners to repudiate debts if the Union party candidate does not win the presidency warning that creditors would be repaid only if the candidate gains office.
Organized Labor Split Nears the Climax
The split in American organized labor widens as John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers press to unionize steel workers while boycotting the AFL executive council session on insurrection charges. Tampa will host the expulsion decision at the convention in November.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Lewis
Executive Council
American Federation of Labor
Tampa
Childhood and war talk in an American air
The piece contrasts a Dutch child Holland buying bombing planes in Baltimore with wartime thrift, and critiques Rev. Charles C Webber who promotes a planned economy to abolish capitalism. It questions how God and revolution fit together and weighs who would fund churches and salaries if such plans were enacted. It notes American cities as major air traffic hubs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
America
Cher Petit Pappa
Papa
Toto
Tugwell
Marcia
Mary Frances Cottrell
Joyce Helmick
Holland
Baltimore
Rev. Webber
United States
Charles C. Webber
God
Webber
Lenin
Stalin
Union Theological Seminaries
Webbers
Dean Swift
Quilt of Applique Is Popular Easy to Do Pattern 1191
Simple Bluebird quilt in easy applique using three materials. Includes cutting sewing finishing yardage chart and block layouts for single and double beds. Send 15 cents for pattern 1191 to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept New York NY with name and address.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sewing Circle Needlecraft Department
Eighth Ave
New York
N. Y
Mind Meter Test of Famous Men Vocations
Ten problems list a man and four professions with the aim to cross out the one he is best known for. Answers identify the disrupted occupation for each historical figure, including Bunyan Kellogg Howe Herbert Hauptmann Webster Whitney Magellan Goethals and Clay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Bunyan
Frank B. Kellogg
Elias Howe
Victor Herbert
Gerhart Hauptmann
Also Mentioned on This Page
Washington Star
James
John
China
Tanglefoot
Thomas Fuller
Aps
Othera
Adios
Taya
WKS
Minneapolis
WNU
Doan
Edward W. Pickard
Western Newspaper Union
Danzig
Berlin
Warsaw
Free
Germany
Poland
League of Nations
Vimy Ridge
Edward
Vimy
Edward VIII
England
Lebrun
Canada
Walter S. Allward
Toronto
Canadian Battlefields Memorial Commission
Sir Henry Wellcome
Sir Henry Wellcomie
Wisconsin
London
Royal Humane Society
Lady Stanley Riaiermty
Uganda
Central Africa
Cunard
White Star Line
Est
Normandie
Cherbourg
Ambrose
W. W. Wincapaw
Exermont
E. T. Ramsdell
Boston
Federal Crop Reporting Board
Washington
M. L. Cooke
Rocky Mountains
Montana
Hudson Valley
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Ohio Valley
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Roosevelt
Grouth
Morris L. Cooke
Richard C. Moore
The
Army Engineers
John C. Page
Bureau of Reclamation
Frederick H. Fowler
National Resources Committee
Rexford G. Tugwell
Harry L. Hopkins
Works Progress
Mr. Roosevelt
Drouth
CCC
Robert Fechner
Civilian Conservation Corps
Senate
Iowa
Ows
Barry Halden
Chariton
American Legion
United States Senate
Louis Murphy
Guy M. Gillette
Farmer-Labor Party
Des Moines
Smith Wildman Brookhart
New Deal Farm Organization
Eleanor Hhlm
Eleanor Holm
Jarrett
Gov. Landon
Alf. M. Landon
Kansas Capitol
Topeka
Snell
Cleveland
Landon
Mr. Landor
Republican Party
Gov, Landon
Brisbane
Europe
Asia
Africa
Union Theological Seminary
Caesar
Paris
Miami
Los Angeles
San Diego
Chicago
San Francisco
Oakland
King Features Syndicate
WNN
Arthur Brishone
By Lowell Henderson
Bell Syndicate
Noah Webster
Eli Whitney
Ferdinand Magellan
George W. Goethals
Henry Clay
Aswers
Inventor
Navigator
Engineer
Statesman
Daley
Daisy Fly