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Newspaper
Brookshire Times
Location
Brookshire, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1941
Page
7
A 32 page booklet outlines defense job chances with free agencies training and placement. It notes labor shortages in machine shop aircraft shipbuilding and metal work and mentions employers hiring women and older workers. It lists over 100 job types and how to register for training and eligibility details.
A dramatic Broadway ledge scene links Jean Phillips and Macdonald Carey from Sioux City as a thrill of sanity and danger unfolds. Meanwhile industry notes profile upcoming films, star pairings, and studio plans including Bard, Goldwyn and Warner projects with Gene Krupa, Claudette Colbert and Joel McCrea.
A workshop project describes making a walking duck a hopping rabbit clown ring toss toy and owl bookends. Wood is cut with jig coping or keyhole saw and painted with turning wheels enabling the rabbit to hop and the duck to walk. The clown nose serves as a target for ring catching. Includes lines for four items and price 18 cents with ordering directions.
A discussion notes a unique dry substance named Liquid Sand or Silver sand that sinks objects similar to water. It is described as the only dry matter to act like a liquid, causing bullets and other sinking items to descend likewise.
The text offers practical advice on repairing rugs with binding and buttonholing, cleaning mops and brushes, storing prunes with cottage cheese, washing delicate lace by dipping a milk bottle in soapy and clear water, and pattern piece management. It also notes that clothes moths target animal fabrics but not cotton, linen, rayon, or silks.
A concise quotation from Douglas Jerrold highlighting that joy comes from one’s own hearth not from others. The line emphasizes domestic happiness over external pleasures.
A concise credo states you cannot command more or less than your own will Harolded as a reassurance of inner control and personal sovereignty attributed to Leonardo da Vinci with emphasis on self mastery.
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