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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1943
Page
3
Pattern No. 1692 B offers a durable jumper and blouse outfit for ages 8 to 16 with size 10 requiring 13 yards of fabric, while Pattern No. 1694 B provides a shirtwaist dress in sizes 34 to 48 needing 4 yards of 39 inch material for size 36. Send your order to the address provided.
The text explains that Americans call the ground floor the first story and the British call the second floor the first storey. It notes that the word story comes from the old French verb estorer meaning to build.
Pattern request appears from the Sewing Circle Pattern Dept at 530 South Wells Street Chicago. Enclose 20 cents for each pattern desired with size details.
A reader poses seven trivia prompts including the term for a harbor provisioning boat and the origin of the Irish potato. The items touch music, state geography, printing history, and a financial figure per thousand.
A trivia query asks how many nomination bills exist, with seven. It then inquires how many wives Napoleon Bonaparte had, answered as one to two wives. It also asks which seven states are visible from Lookout Mountain Tennessee, listing potential states.
Bumboat and discordant appear in the list along with North Carolina and notes printed in 1465. The Irish potato claims Peruvian origin via an Indian name, while U S currency totals mention two dollar, five dollar, ten dollar, and twenty dollar bills. Josephine Beauharnais and Marie Louise of Austria are named, with a regional set including Alabama Kentucky North Carolina South Carolina Virginia Georgia and Tennessee.
A monumental Chinese dictionary will be the largest yet, bound in 40 volumes and covering 60 000 Chinese characters. The project will take about ten years to complete with the first volume focusing on the character yi and the 11 000 words and phrases formed with it, spanning 478 pages.
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