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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1937
Page
8
A compact blurb notes that some people refuse secrecy and that not all crooks aim to deceive everyone. It observes that average Americans use about six ordinary pencils annually, highlighting mundane daily life alongside wary attitudes toward crime and honesty.
Siam exports run roughly eighty percent rice while aluminum remained costly before 1886. Nuts vary in composition with peanuts rich in protein and pecans high in fat. Deep sea salvage boasts many failures, and U S street miles could line Rhode Island.
A collection of brief notes on global topics including Ireland's woodlands totaling 390000 acres, stingless bees imported to England from Africa, 70 to 80 dialects in France, overcrowding in English Welsh housing, famous Fochow Road Shanghai eateries, the near extinction of the Andean chinchilla, rare mountain zebras in South Africa with about sixty remaining, long march capabilities of Italy's Bersaglieri, and Isle of Man tax and finance peculiarities such as no inheritance taxes, no pawnbrokers, and no mines lenders.
A roundup covers Johannesburg with a 150 foot fire ladder, Godthaab’s population around 1300, Hungary restricting male and female voters to three and six years of schooling, Budapest horse meat consumption over 2.2 million pounds, English postmen ordered to avoid sending mail where dogs roam, Buenos Aires rapidly expanding to 2,388,645 since 1914, Soviet Union reports over 105000 collective farms guaranteed land ownership, and China showing rising interest in modern medicines while traditional remedies slip in use.
A collection of aphorisms from Browning Burke Stalin Schwab and Hoover exploring courage conscience and happiness. It juxtaposes lines on fear ambition and the value of people with critical reflections on old and new.
In Hollywood the stage children from Dead End now act in films and mock stars while earning big pay. Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor star in This Is My Affair, with Roosevelt and Dewey history on screen. Wings Over Honolulu stars Wendy Barrie and Ray Milland, and Bill Gargan’s Universal film includes a quirky house alarm scene. Celebrities and radio notes spill from Don Wilson’s Jack Benny impressions to Gracie Allen’s charity bridge tour idea.
A collection of maxims and reflections on speech memory and virtue from Bulwer Lytton Shakespeare Browning and St Augustine. The quotes touch on time money slander happiness and kindness with concise moral observations.
A Los Angeles Times style reflection cites the modern stenographer seeking shorter hours and bigger moments, contrasts green and blue salesman traits, and notes perceptions of love poverty and laughter while warning against correcting friends mistakes and overconfidence. The piece ends with a quip about newlywed calls ending the honeymoon.
A regional column surveys varied claims about women's roles and rights. It cites Census Bureau data on age of voting for women in England, notes Egypts corset metaphor, mentions women farmers in Moscow night schools, and records beliefs about women’s leadership and religious capacity across regions from Ashby de la Zouch to Inner Mongolia.
A report notes that Janare e use no buttons pins or hooks and eyes for fastening clothes. Streatham Bocland recalls an alligator returned from a zoo eight miles away. A physician examining Cora describes Eskimos with foreign bodies in the eye, unaware of the irritant.
A jumble of short items notes wartime Warsaw rat-killing week a loud cricket cry booksellers in Cras bus in Budapest a pig tail soup claim under Britain and distant finds such as oyster shells 4000 feet underground in Texas gulf oil fields and Czech road signs directing to the nearest doctor.
A collection of famous lines on thinking, health, wealth, time, and wisdom. It pairs Plautus Bacon Farrar Voltaire Shakespeare and others, highlighting themes of misunderstanding, judgment, and emotional states through concise maxims.
A collection of aphorisms from Emerson La Rochefoucauld Addison Cicero and Colton highlighting knowledge as antidote to fear flattery dangers of self flattery and the idea that justice is blind Wars should be undertaken to allow peace and safety for all observers.
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