Compton’s Encyclopedia Answers Digest Questions For Kids
Andy sends a 15 volume set to Steven Litwak 11 of Los Angeles to explain the digestive system. The lesson covers mouth to large intestine, digestion of proteins fats and carbs, enzymes and glands, and the role of villi in nutrient absorption. Also details early newspaper history from ancient Rome to Boston and New York.
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Andy
Compton
Steven Litwak
Los Angeles
Calif
Hammond
International World Globe
Dale Frank
Albany
N. Y
Rome
Venice
Frankfurter Journal
Germany
England
Weekly News
Boston
Publick
Boston News Letter
Benjamin Franklin
Pennsylvania Gazette
Philadelphia
New York
Caribou Diet Relies on Internal Fat Reserves
A barren-proud caribou carries its sustenance within, storing a large six-inch rump slab of tallow for energy through winter. The fat is consumed by spring, enabling the animal to endure harsh conditions without external food.
World Cities Crossword Clues
A compact list of crossword style clues covering world geography and terms from capitals to rivers and titles. Includes hints like capital of France and Indian site of the Taj Mahal alongside terms such as emporium and portal.
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Taj Mahal
Vishnu
Women and wives questioned in Ruth Millett essay
Ruth Millett’s column surveys perceptions of women with a chorus of reader questions. The piece lampoons the paradoxes of marriage and modern female behavior, noting reactions to Marilyn Monroe and tensions between homemaking and personal desires.
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Marilyn Monroe
Ask The Post Q A Series From The Bridgeport Post Information Bureau
A reader questions item covers lumber sources the Douglas fir as top supplier, aviation pioneer Thomas Selfridge’s fatal 1908 crash, plant care booklets, marriage terms such as digamist, and film reviews for Marty with critical praise. Also included are notes on Chartreuse ingredients, the Louisiana Capitol height, Doctor Dolittle books, the Sullivan Memorial Trophy, and chigger related health concerns.
Streamliner WY Stella White Dye Guide
Instructions describe tinting braid and tag rugs with Stella White. Soak last starched water with added coloring for a few minutes and proceed as usual. Contains practical dyeing steps and timing guidance for textile finishing.
Public health column questions Asian flu hysteria
The health columnist ridicules the Asian flu panic and vaccine debates while urging calm and critical reading. He notes glaucoma affects about a million Americans over 40, with half unaware of their condition.
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Cyclopedia of Health
San Marino
Red Regiment
Communist Party
Red
Red Faction
Red Party
Republic
Italy
William Brady
el Camino
Beverly Hills
Calif
Miss Marian Martin Pattern 9116 for Misses’ Sizes
Printed Pattern 9116 by Marian Martin offers a year round dress with collar or square neckline and optional sleeves or jumper option. Includes sizes 10 through 18 and yardage guidance for size 16. Directions printed on pattern parts. Send 50 cents plus 5 cents per pattern for first class mailing to Bridgeport Post Pattern Dept. 232 West 18th Street New York.
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Marian Martin
Care
Bridgeport Post
Pattern Dept
West 18Th St
New York
N. Y
Crochet Patterns and New York Postal Sale Notice
Pattern 7254 offers crocheted slippers sized small to large with crossed straps and uses little wool. Send 35 cents plus 5 cents each pattern for postage to Bridgeport Post 14 Household Arts Dept New York for order form and Alice Brooks Catalogue.
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Angora
Bridgeport Post
Household Arts Dept
Old Chelsea Station
New York
N. Y
Alice Brooks
Thanksgiving Reflections on Gratitude and Duty
In a 1957 Thanksgiving meditation, the author urges counting blessings over complaints. He invokes Lincoln’s 1863 sermon on national repentance, divine guidance, and humility before God, warning that pride and self-sufficiency endanger the nation amid war and postwar prosperity.
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Washington
Opsright
Kiex Features Syndicate, Inc
Parffin wax flare disrupts Civil Service offices
A pot of paraffin wax used on graded civil service exam papers caught fire and filled the Civil Service offices with smoke while officials including Ellsworth Wolfsperger reviewed Fire Department promotional exam papers. Gilda Gray, famed dancer, announced plans to buy a ranch in Colorado to settle down with the country.
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Civil Service
Ellsworth Wolfsperger
Fire Department
Gilda Gray
Colorado Ranch
Danseuse
Productive sow yields 62 piglets in year of litters
Memphis farm reports a Duroc sow born 15 piglets in February 1956 and then produced litters of 17, 12, and 16 in three six month periods, totaling 62 offspring.
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Memphis
Tenn
Robert Schwam
Schwam
Thanksgiving Prayer by Edgar A. Guest
A terse Thanksgiving poem in which the speaker thanks God for rain and harvests and progress while placing pride aside. The piece recalls gratitude for vine and fruit, home sweetness, youth, and gifts of life, urging humility before the Giver.
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Indy
Swernér
San Fran
Small Intestine
Joe Palooka
MR. Palooka
Ham Fisher
Mrs. Wilson
Venezuela
Bolivia
Switzerlan
Netherlands
France
Yussar
al Rasp
Expect
Larissan Mountain
City
New Jersey
Emporium
Rouson
Ruth Millett
Franklin Folger
Haskin
Bridgeport Post Information Bureau
Ington
Eleenty
America
U. S
B.G
Thomas Selfridge
San Francisco
West Point
Orville Wright
The
Eye Street
Washington, D.C
Wright
Marty
P.R. A
Ernest Borgnine
Betsy Blair
Borgnine
la Grande Chartreuse
Order
Grenoble
N. T
A. Louisiana
Baton Rouge
Huey P. Long
Doctor Doolittle
Hugh Loft Ing
Velerlanan
James E. Sullivan
Far East
Streamliner
WY Stella White
Councir
Towers
Deserter Swain
Inte
Rased
Nevil Shu
Daoth
Swain
Avatratio
William Brady, M.D
Marian Marte
By Mee Broo
State Traffic Commission
George E. Sokolsky
United States
New England
Wilds
God
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
Ukolaky
Just Folks
Edgar A. Guest
Earth
Alec Great
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