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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1942
Page
3
An officer laments a new recruit's poor weapon while a sergeant demands a closer look. The recruit peers into the barrel and discovers a hole punched through the rifle. An unrelated advertisement promotes a free booklet on piles and fistula from Dr. C M Coe of St. Louis.
A child’s pattern offers a slack suit with bib top for sizes 8 to 16 years and a matching bolero trimmed with decorative braid. Also promotes a two piece seersucker frock that doubles as a suit with blouse or dickey for versatile summer wear.
Wartime shortages of imported canaries led Americans to adopt home breeding as a new hobby and a profitable venture. A small initial outlay lets hobbyists turn pleasure into earnings, compensating for restricted foreign supplies and a wartime ban on imports.
Pattern No 8161 designed for sizes 12 to 14 with short sleeves uses 414 yards of fabric and instructs readers to send orders to the provided address.
Practical quick tips cover mower wheel repairs with a rattail file for traction and marmalade cooking by avoiding overboiling. Advice includes hat care with sandpaper and art gum, frying in heavy aluminum kettles, red raspberry leaves as tea substitute, cold salads, and steam extraction for deep splinters.
The article praises quilts planned as bedspreads with repeated color in blocks to unify designs. It notes a plain setting enhances the quilt, cites a sketch bed with a tall footboard, and urges trimming the board plus adding dotted Swiss frills for effect. It advertises Mrs Spears Book 3 with eight 32 page booklets offering quilt block patterns including Whirl Wind, 10 cents each, and mentions an order to receive three different quilt block patterns on three-booklet sets.
The piece asserts sausages began with the Greeks, mentions Lucanian Romans as notable producers, and cites Athenaeus, a third century Greek writer of Deipnoso phists, as noting the banquet book's emphasis on food for body and mind as a key element of Epicurean thought.
The night has a thousand eyes line follows When all others are sleeping. The wife of an earl is a countess. Garlic belongs to the Liliaceae or Amaryllidaceae family depending on taxonomy. The present world population is approximately seven to eight billion. The Belgian Shakespeare was Maurice Maeterlinck or perhaps William Shakespeare metonymically. but commonly Belgian playwright Robert de Clari is not correct. Australia was once known as New Holland. The first national convention of the American Legion was held in 1919. A gallon of pure water weighs about 8.34 pounds. Alaska was purchased in 1867.
A brief notice listing two items: the phrase And the day but one and the title Countess. The source presents two short items likely as headlines or answers in a column.
This proverb echoes Cicero praising contentment as the true wealth beyond riches. It contrasts avarice with prudent spending and highlights the fulfillment found in owning less while valuing personal steadiness.
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