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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1944
Page
3
Mrs Spears provides an actual size pattern for a three bracket set to adorn a bare nail space. Complete cutting, assembling, and finishing directions ensure well proportioned lines. Send 15 cents for cost and mailing to the address given.
A reader asks how to reduce basement dust and a method is given using a mixture of one part water glass to four parts water. The solution should be poured on the floor, spread with a broom, and allowed to soak, with puddles wiped up after a few hours. Repeats may be needed, and water glass should not be used if planning to paint later.
A reader asks about mending a leaking wood flush tank with putty. Answer favors caulking compound for durability. Other queries cover building a shower stall with cement pan, oil stain on a wooden chest and enamel, finishing a maple floor with linseed oil, and making paper fireproof with boracic acid and borax solution.
Readers rail against a 25 percent tax on out of town calls and a 15 percent levy on local ones. The piece laments the loss of telephone as a household necessity and mocks the idea that conversations are a luxury, arguing the tax inflates costs and dampens the easy habit of calling.
A War Production Board scene shows a chief and two ad men debating a public campaign to end superstition about lighting three cigarettes on one match. The chief pushes bold plans while stress and superstition collide with wartime pragmatism.
A stream of quick profiles and anecdotes from film and radio, naming Jim Jr and other child performers on CBSs Big Sister, veteran actors like Fernando Alvarado and Wild Bill Elliott, Anne Shirley, Blackie the cat, Helen Holmes, and upcoming film projects from Warner Bros and Republic Pictures. The piece also mentions Ingrid Bergman, Errol Flynn, Bob Hope, and Dar a range of studio plans and accolades, with fans writing to Carlo as a rising radio star.
The passage highlights flattering party dress options for young girls suitable for summer occasions. It notes fabrics like silk crepe, crisp dotted muslin, and percale, suggesting versatile outfits such as a splendid school frock when made in percale.
A fragmented exchange spotlights a couple in light banter about marriage preferences one would marry a widow the other prefers being second wife joked delays with trains and a casual flirtation about family resemblance. A small boy delivers a witty riddle about a hay window and a house side.
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