16 Apr 1936
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Newspaper
Camden Record News
Location
Camden, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1936
Page
1
A humorous Indianapolis News piece extols the one cent piece now warmly received in American commerce. It notes its widespread circulation, clever devices to trap it, and its acceptance by rich and poor, with the cent mixing freely among other coins in shopping districts.
An advertisement column promotes joining the Dizzy Dean Winners program with a Grape Nuts offer and promises valuable free prizes to participants. The note directs readers to another column for details.
A humorous anecdote explains a Scotsman buys a single spur reasoning that when one side of the horse moves the other will follow in step. The quip highlights frontier wit and practical jokes of the era.
Kerry Young engineers a fake fire panic to draw townsfolk away while Ted West’s scheme and Nan Downer’s logging plan unfold. Young uncovers a gun tied to the Downer case as West schemes, and Nan debates contract terms as they map property and hunt for a profitable timber deal.
Kerry Toung spends a week making maps and auditing in the police alongside Nan Downer. They work long hours with scarce dialogue, then she approaches him with questions, her respect evident in her manner.
Simple cross stitch decorating turns tea towels into smart household linens. motifs include glassware and china suitable for embroidery. Pattern 787 offers six motifs about 4 by 4 inches with stitch guidance and material requirements. Send 15 cents to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept New York for pattern 787.
This column offers practical house care advice from cleaning to cooking. It covers straining used lard, frying oysters, keeping cut flowers fresh, washing kettles with borax, repainting faded exteriors, removing perfume stains, protecting surfaces, finding sewing tools, decorating young girls rooms, enhancing cut glass brightness with ammonia, and promotes Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets as a liver aid.
A Toronto Globe excerpt portrays a Black man, Sam, facing a lawsuit and seeking relief from his wife Liza who suggests disguising the blame by removing soiled overalls and placing them on his back. The dialogue reflects dated racial stereotypes and social tensions of the era.
A London Bystander cartoon features a customer asking for language lessons for her son while a waiter bumbles through choices French German Russian Italian Spanish. A comic exchange ends with a dog gone remark and a puzzled customer.
A reflection on the star as beautiful and peaceful, pleasing not by action but by existing. It dwells in the vast heavens with concord to space, suggesting repose and freedom from obstruction, an image of eternal peace.
The Ferry-Morse Seed Breeding Institute highlights its 80 years of seed work at Rochester Michigan and Salinas California stations. It notes over 50 000 annual tests and more than 9 000 tests for quality, with foundation stock developed locally and seed sold only after germination tests. Readers are urged to request its Home Garden Catalog.
Health to life reflection quotes a philosophical line about life and vitality attributed to Ariphron, noting the contrast between health and mere existence.
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