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Newspaper
Big Piney Examiner
Location
Big Piney, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1942
Page
7
A self teach piano guide offers a 24 page book with a life size keyboard chart and basic chords for shortcut play. It explains music elements and provides three airs for practice and asks readers to send their order.
The Raleigh Cigarettes ad invites readers to submit the best last line for a jingle in a weekly contest with over 100 liberal prizes each week. Details forthcoming in this paper.
A veteran Major George Fitzgerald Lee is featured reflecting on a life in the frontier army and World War I while a second column argues against labor control of industry, warning of a Reuther plan in Ford and comparing to government control in Russia Italy and Germany. It ends urging defense bond purchases.
A jumble of light quips and sketches from a wartime radio era. It includes a tire shortage joke dialogue with a character named Luke Z Woggle, a satirical piece on defense spending, an Indoor Hat Wearers League note about Bill Knudsen, and brief society and film-world remarks. The tone is brisk and humorous, with references to Roosevelt and Nazi generals.
An eight pound quantity of uranium is described as containing enough atomic energy to move the liner Queen Mary across the Atlantic if released by neutron bombardment.
A Memphis dairy company set a promotion offering a pint of ice cream for every four leaf clover. The first day saw more than 5,000 clovers collected, drawing strong customer response.
A peculiar shellfish variety known as tree oysters attaches to tree roots in Montego Bay Jamaica. They grow partly in water and partly out, presenting an unusual aquaculture sight.
Southwestern United States communities used natural woodpecker nests as household containers. Birds bore into cacti creating holes, which heal with a hard fibre lining Indians remove for utilitarian use.
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