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Newspaper
Carrollton Chronicle
Location
Carrollton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1939
Page
2
Sheriff Jackson confronts Pete in a parched desert standoff over a half-full canteen and a coin toss for water. The exchange ends with Jackson securing the water and leaving Pete defeated, while the sheriff waits for help and reflects on survival.
A Montreal Herald report from Ottawa central experimental farm outlines soybeans as a high protein source with 33 to 40 percent crude protein. It compares soy to barley oats and cottonseed meal, noting oil extraction and commercial use in soap palmit oil and various products.
An Anchor Line report describes Cuban cigar factories in Havana where workers nap, eat, and study during work hours. Owners pay per piece, with about 100 cigars daily per worker, and assign a foreman who reads from classics to keep morale high.
Deanna Durbin dominates chatter as the current cinema idol with Three Smart Girls Up. Universal counters with a new project pairing Durbin with Leo Meek as producer-director while industry chatter questions if the sequel will match the charm of its predecessor.
Syd Rapoport of Brooklyn relives a nightmare camping trip upstate near Poughkeepsie in summer 1935. Rain and illness left a ragged party exposed to a deadly snake infestation inside their damp tents, as brothers Harold and Jerry kept watch and helped him survive seven hours of fear until dawn.
The ukulele, a four string instrument akin to a small guitar, was introduced to Hawaiians late in the eighteenth century by Portuguese sailors. A manuscript in the Royal Library at Stuttgart, dated TH A. D, hints at European roots. The instrument, later tied to Hawaii and jazz in the United States, derives its name from native terms meaning jumping or leaping.
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