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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1943
Page
7
The fragment notes a June 27 lesson focusing on SSTure texts selected by International. It mentions a 53 percent record and preface to use in study materials. The readable bits imply an educational agenda and scheduling within an international context.
A devotional overview highlights five practical lessons from II and I John. Set an example for children, guard against false teachers, support true teachers, beware prideful church leadership, and emulate the life of a good reporter of faith.
A dignified man carries his wife's repaired shoes home without a box. A busmate jokes about her gad about. A country store faces an immense salt display as a tourist is astonished by the quantity. A chem professor tests acids while a student quips about dissolution.
Pattern notice indicates Barbara Bell No 1741-B designed for sizes 14 16 18 20 40 42 and 4 with size 16 needing 24% yards of 35 inch fabric and 7 yards bias. Advises scraps for bottom and notes unusually large demand plus wartime conditions. Orders to be sent to a specified address.
A set of ten trivia items with answers and a prompt for another round of questions. Topics span weather terms, naval customs, and U S history. Highlights include khamsin, inverted flags during war, training planes percentage, two main war factors production and supply, anchor ice, Kaiser dams, vice president vote in senate, First Amendment, definition of an atoll, and whistle ban at sea with boatswain’s pipe explanation.
A hot African wind fills the air with sand as context for a curious wartime fact. The Philippines is claimed as the only country to fly its national flag inverted while at war. The figures suggest about 60 percent relevance to the situation, with production and supply at 75 percent and battle at 25 percent of the focus.
Pattern 2984 features six motifs of stitches and color schemes for kitchen towels. It notes materials required and mentions current war conditions causing delays. Orders should be sent to the provided address to complete fulfillment.
The text describes Gold Coast soldiers who helped drive Italians from Ethiopia in 1940. It notes mixed religions among them, with Moslems and Christians, and a bar rack marriage rule tying wives to rank from private to sergeant major. The soldiers live in bright cement barracks and maintain pristine uniforms under British tutelage.
Practical advice on cleaning frames with milk, maintaining rugs with cushions, boiling root vegetables, keeping poultry feed clean with wire barriers, browning baked ham with honey, avoiding water on electricals, cleaning water bottles, and using Sapo Elixir Cleaning Fluid for dark and white clothes. Includes vendor reference to Dr. Try Ir. at all druggists.
The American navy uses shells with colored dyes in their noses. When fired into water, they create dye spouts up to 20 feet high in red, orange, or green. On impact, dye splashes cover the target. In fleet battles each ship fires different color shells to help gunners adjust aim and assist aviators spotting enemy ships.
For over a century British sailors on warships could own many pets with few limits. Collier's notes the practice ended recently after the admiralty discovered a battleship housed 1,560 animals including large snakes bears deer and antelopes.
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