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Newspaper
Big Piney Examiner
Location
Big Piney, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1940
Page
2
LEAs daisies daffodils and pansies form a charming quartet of motifs for pillow slips in simple embroidery. Embroidery edges or a colored border enhance the design and can extend to match sheet ends. A hot iron transfer Z8716 costs 15 cents and yields all four designs. you can reuse the pattern for multiple stampings.
A terse note advertises pattern numbers and mailing details for a pattern service in Maine. The text includes a price line and enclosure instruction, but the full context is partially garbled and the exact pattern descriptions are unreadable.
A new book by George Olin a cactus collector in Los Angeles contains pockets and compartments built into the pages. Each pocket holds living plants such as cacti with nourishment inside the pages enabling growth while the reader can view descriptions and the plant on the same page.
A young man from Nieaded for Fane AL travels toward a future of marked strength and new weaknesses, aiming for recognition among the earth's strongest, wisest individuals in a journey of personal and public ascent.
Editorial note explains opinions are columnist’s view. Reported fear that merging wars could strain Allied plans as Finland receives aid while Poland organizes a large French-based force to bolster resistance. Context provided by Western Newspaper Union release.
Senate hearings on the reciprocal trade act discuss aiding farmers as exports shrink since the war began. Allies press foreign exchange needs for munitions, while the U S runs a large January export surplus. A $1 billion wartime purchase adds a $20 million Douglas Aircraft bomber contract for Britain.
The report notes Finnish defenders retreating along the Karelian isthmus with some ground held at the border waistline. Western Front sees heavier patrols and artillery, while Germany expands Siegfried line near Luxembourg and Belgian Dutch frontiers. Allied ships report Arctic patrols, two Nazi merchantmen sunk near Finland, and possible signs of wider war convergence off Petsamo. France scene mentions Sikorski drilling near 100,000 troops with Polish escapees from Germany.
At Little America Admiral Richard E Byrd and two assistants mapped the South Pacific coast of Antarctica discovering a vast mountain range and an ice covered land within 80 miles offshore. In London ex Premier David Lloyd George claimed two and a half million acres that yielded 1,000,000 tons in 1914 are now weed grown. Maj Kermit Roosevelt rumored to quit British post to lead an international brigade against Russia in Finland. Archduke Otto of Austria arriving in the U S for a three week visit hopes to win support for enthronement if Germany loses the war. Died General William Graves age 74 who commanded U S forces in Siberia 1918 to 1920.
The state approves a 20 009 000 loan to Fin land and a 60 000 000 crop checks appropriation. Wagner introduces investment company regulation for the SEC. The House extends the reciprocal trade program for three years. The 1940 census begins April 1 amid public staunch opposition to sharing personal information.
The piece notes a volatile mix of war plans and diplomacy as observers bank on a northern Allied landing, Finland earns German interest, and Finland and Sweden loom in a widening European crisis. Tremors of peace proposals surface in London via German legation, while Mussolini and Welles dash through Europe hinting at a broader peace offensive.
President Roosevelt, returning from the Panama Canal area aboard the Tuscaloosa, called for doubling current guns and planes at Panama and crafting a long range defense plan across Central America to Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela. Augusto Boyd of Panama praised full Latin American cooperation in canal defense.
The 1940 census faces protest over personal income queries. Catherine Curtis of New York warned the senate committee that jail expansion may be needed to deter protesting women if income questions remain. Census Director William Austin presses ahead. A new National Income Division will study all income sources and spending to gauge goods and services.
A roundup of brief notes covers diverse items from an Oakdale saw mill using krish potatoes to prevent boiler scale, to English church land in Franklinton New York, and a tax note on non taxable church property. It also notes Texas road costs, rheumatic fever progress to heart trouble, a Lincoln era reflection by Zion Tim Turner, and Sonoma County’s flags history across four centuries.
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