Adventurous Americans and Old Pat’s Daring Tales
The piece recounts Israel Putnam as a New England hero with escapes during the French and Indian War and the Revolution, plus a life spanning Montreal to Havana. It covers Navajo Bill and Manuelito friendship, Putnam’s frontier adventures, and the Mad Poet’s later life ending in 1842.
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Israel Putnam
New England
Montreal
Havana
Boston
Detroit
Sir William Johnson
Rogers’ Rangers
Canada
France
Cuba
Morro Castle
Bradstreet
Company of
Military Adventurers
Lower
Mississippi A
West Florida
Putman
Bunker Hill
Manuelito
W. N. Wallace
Barbara Bell Spring Pattern Book offers easy to sew dresses
Pattern 2 pattern No 1737 designs a smart dress with gathered bosom and circular hem, suitable for 32 through 44 sizes. No 1743 fits sizes 11 to 19. Materials include crepe silk print chiffon georgette. Send 15 cents to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept Room 1324 Chicago Ill for the Barbara Bell Spring Summer Pattern Book.
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Barbara Bell
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
W. Wacker Dr
Chicago
Ill
Bell Syndicate
WNU
Favorite Recipe of the Week Grape Nuts Flakes Coffee Cake
A recipe for Grape Nuts Flakes Coffee Cake with flour sugar salt baking powder and shortening. It instructs to sift and blend ingredients then add milk egg and flakes, bake in a greased pan at 400 degrees for about 25 minutes.
Waiter’s Odd Memory Trick Stuns Customer
Jones visits a messy restaurant and asks for a menu. The waiter claims there is no menu but recites a long list of dishes from memory. When asked about a memory system, the waiter says he simply reads the tablecloth to recall the items.
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Jones
Speeding Most Common Fault in Fatal Accidents
The 1938 Accident Facts report from the National Safety Council shows 28 states recorded speeding as the primary cause in fatal crashes and a smaller share in nonfatal incidents. About 18 percent of drivers in fatal accidents and 9 percent in nonfatal ones were classified as exceeding the speed limit or driving too fast for conditions.
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National Safety Council
A Limit to Tact From Uncle Phaile Says
A columnist reflects on prudence in sales and reputation. The piece warns that deceit harms all, notes the frailty of age and progress, and urges ingenuity and funds to stay free from the crowd. It cautions against halting a parade and against anger clouding judgment.
Ask Me Anything Quiz: Lions Typhoons Nicotine and More
Answers cover collective nouns for lions differences between typhoon and tycoon nicotine finger stains bathroom skeletons and the deepest night hours. It cites Jefferson on entangling alliances and presidents needing constitutional authority for extra sessions, plus a riddle on familial relations concluding with stepmother.
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United States
Congress
Thomas Jefferson
Naval Observatory
A Pride Rising Amid First Cyclone
A pride faces a first cyclone event described as a rising weather pattern. The report notes the cyclone type and hints at community impact and response.
Sees how to sew home decor items with valance solution
Ruth Wyeth Spears discusses decorating a new house with sewing sketches from SEWING for the Home Decorator. She describes differences between two principal bedrooms a simple one with an old quilt and a flowery glazed chintz room with bright accents.
Wise and Otherwise: Quotations on Manners and Fate
A collection of wry reflections on society and character. The writer riffs on street orators, poverty, convict authorship, and marital inference, weaving humor and critique into compact maxims about human nature and history.
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Pat
McDonald Clarke
Jamaica
West Indies
Bath
Kennebec River
Maine
Mary H
New London
Mary G
New York
America
Delmonico’s
Broadway
Union
No. 1737
Waiter
Phaile
Ruth Wyeth Spears
Spears
S. Desplaines St
Nature
Garfield Tea Co
Brooklyn, M
Garfield
Cutler
Harry Cutler
Prince Albert
Harry
Tayusta
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
Winston-Salem
North Carolina
Mle Asa
Jerry
Givaey
Hoban
IS Sone
General Foods
Wilbur
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