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Newspaper

Brookshire Times

Location

Brookshire, Texas, United States of America

Date

Jun 14, 1940

Page

3

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.

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.

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.

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.

Miss Fixit Mss Fixit

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