Clever Cutouts for Your Pool or Lawn
Pattern patterns for plywood cutouts of Fo' Bits and his turtle and Flybud offered for lawn or poolside display. Includes jig saw cutting guides enamel finish painting tips and ordering details with two 21 inch characters.
Gentle Speech Echoes Cicero on Mind Conciliation
A brief literary note reflects Cicero on how a kind manner and gentle speech can ease men's minds. The quotation underscores the power of respectful rhetoric in persuasion and social harmony.
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Cicero
Hollywood Stars and Fashionable Fads Highlight Summer Gossip
The column notes Theo Rossi and Tyrone Power as top bachelors after a South American trip, with fashion trend setters embracing square glasses used by Dolores Del Rio and others. It mentions Ann Dvorak Helen Mack Lola Lane and Mary Booth in Columbia’s Girls of the Road, plus radio plans drawing B list performers. Eleanor Roosevelt’s NBC talks charm production crews and a Baseball game scene shows Gary Crosby overwhelmed by autograph seekers while with his grandfather.
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Virginia Vale
Theo Rossi
South America
Tyrone Power
Annabella
Mrs. Power
J. Edgar Hoover
Shirley Temple
Dolores del Rio
Hedy LaMarr
Joan Bennett
Rudy Vallee
Peggy Moran
Annd
Pete Westmore
Hollywood
Ann Dvorak
Helen Mack
Lola Lane
Columbia
Mary Booth
Edwin Booth
Gary Crosby
Bing
Pasteurization and Joshua Billings in 19th Century Humor
A survey of Pasteurization tracing its origins to fermentation science and its effect on milk and alcohol. It notes Louis Pasteur's work on microbes and sterilization, and shifts to Henry W. Shaw adopting the Joshua Billings pen name, shaping American humorous writing and the evolution of misspelled phonetic satire known as foshing. President Lincoln admired Billings, while Stanton resisted.
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Louis Pasteur
Lowie Pasteur
Joshing Bas
Henry W. Shaw
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Joshua Billings
Hoss
Jackass
Nater
New York Weekly
New York Saturday Post
Weekly
America
Lincoln
Josh Billings
Essas
Stanton
War Department
Union
Venus Flytrap mechanism for catching and digesting prey
The Venus flytrap traps insects by a six-hair trigger system that opens and closes rapidly. The red leaf interior attracts prey while the leaf halves snap shut, locking with spines. The plant digests the insect and then reopens to expel the skeleton.
Miss Fixit and the Color Plan from Picture
A woman inheriting a furnished house finds color planning through a Room Color Plot based on a favorite picture. She paints a rocker turquoise and outfits it with turquoise chair cushions and a chintz in turquoise red primrose and green, following an illustrated rule from Book No. 4.
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Miss Fixit
Mss Fixit
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