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Brimfield News

Location

Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Dec 23, 1937

Page

3

Sammy the Squirrel Tricks and Tricks in Green Forest

In Thornton W. Burgess tale style Sammy the Squirrel schemes to grab acorns from Chatterer and Happy Jack, hiding every nut so none can be shared. He tempts Buster Bear with a plan to win friendship, while plotting and jeering at Reddy.

Sammy Chatterer Red Squirrel Happy Jack Gray Squirrel You Buster Bear Green Forest Buster Sammy Buster Reddy Denly Jumiper

Reddy and Jumiper The Hare A Rivalry Emerges

A fragment describes Reddy deciding an new plan after seeing Jumiper the Hare, implying an impending rivalry. The passage shifts to a technical aside on hot water heating systems, discussing doughnut shaped washers to regulate flow, faster distant radiator heating, and a pump attachment to improve boiler efficiency.

Giant X-Ray Tube Facility Opens in Los Angeles

A five story Los Angeles building housing radiology facilities and a world powerful X-ray tube opens. Organized by Dr. Roscoe Smith, former Lincoln clinic director, the Los Angeles Institute of Radiology features equipment sized to outfit several laboratories. The tube is designed for 1,600,000 volts, stands fourteen feet tall and weighs over two tons.

Los Angeles Roscoe Smith Lincoln Neb Los Angeles Institute of Radiology

All Citrus Fruits Yield Vitamins and Recipes

A compact feature praising citrus fruits vitamin content and detailing traditional and modern uses. It covers oranges and grapefruit origins, seasonal availability, and includes recipes for orange marmalade, orange pineapple jam, sweet potato with pineapple, and cranberry pudding with step by step directions. It notes vitamins A B and G, minerals, and suggests the citrus habit.

Potter Palmer Chicago Texas

Description of hot water circulation in a heating system

A heated water circulates through radiators in rooms. Water is heated in a boiler. as it warms it becomes lighter and rises through pipes to radiators. Cold water behind it sinks and returns to the boiler to be reheated, continuing the cycle.

MANNERS OF THE MOMENT

A humorous note on dealing with rain using tall men and their umbrellas as makeshift canopies. The piece playfully advises slipping behind a generous umbrella holder to reach desired destinations, ending with a wink at polite men in a rainstorm.

Main and Broad

Tomb of St. Geronimo Sees Allied Interest in Algiers

A Sixteenth century Christian martyr, St. Geronimo, died by smothering in mortar. Besides his Algiers tomb, the cast is displayed at the Mustapha Superior Museum in the suburbs.

Geronimo Algiers Mustapha Superieur

How to Attach a Gothic Style Skirt to a Dresser

Instructions describe mounting a skirt on a curved dressing table with hinged arms. Steps include sewing the skirt to a buckram band, cutting buckram to 2½ inches, covering with fabric, setting the heading, shirring with a 4 inch cord, and attaching the skirt to the buckram strip. The ad promotes Mrs. Spears Sewing book with 48 pages of home crafts and asks readers to send 25 cents and a address to 210 South Desplaines St Chicago Illinois.

Spears South Desplaines St Chicago Ilinois

F Is F Is On the Black Boss Storming Fired Stenog

Dialogue fragments show a heated exchange about firing and gossip. Duff remarks on comments while a chemist is asked to alter hair. Willie asks a question to a teacher about what he learned today, prompting a sharp classroom reply.

Stenog

Caution Against Using Poker to Stir Fire Bed

The notice warns that using a poker to agitate the fire bed from above causes clinkers and ash mixing, choking the fire and clogging grates. It urges stirring only through the door by shaking the grates to avoid packing coal lumps and reduce furnace trouble. WNU Service.

WNU

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Thornton W. Burgess Sammy Jay Busy Bumble Ane Warren Goodrich Oun Bell Syndicate WNU Service Rogs B. Whitman Amec Little Nword Fis Willie Smith Brothers Smitch Bros By Fred Neher
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