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Newspaper
Carrollton Chronicle
Location
Carrollton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1939
Page
3
Star Dust winner Virginia Vale is chosen as a nation wide talent quest winner by Jense Lasky who is seeking new fares for the screen. The piece mentions Robert Stanton and a concern over home kidnap scandals and references Freddie Bartholomew and James Stewart in a critical tone.
James Stewart gains popularity with steady film work as new actresses graduate into screen roles. Wesley Barry returns in Stunt Pit for Monogram Pictures, while George Hicks receives fan mail seeking royalty autographs. Cary Grant radio theater notes and Three Marshalls radio changes reflect era’s sound stage quirks and censorship challenges.
Jim McDermott recalls a 1926 night patrol near Niagara Falls when a downed car flipped and narrowly missed death. A second vehicle with counterfeit liquor labels sped by, while McDermott and Roscoe Doane escaped after being pinned under the wreckage and dragged to safety by Army officers returning to Fort Niagara.
A new propane based refrigeration unit by New York engineer Dr Peter Schlumbohm is described to the American Society of Refrigerating Engineers. The device uses a hydrocarbon gun and refrigerant cycle to drive a small gas motor, claiming to supply automatic cooling for trucks trains and boats where electric power is unavailable, with a claimed one ton per hour capacity and low operating cost.
A homemaker offers inexpensive oatmeal based recipes and tips to stretch meals. Dishes include Oatmeal Apple Tart and Oatmeal Cookies, plus a hearty Oatmeal Soup and Meat Patties, highlighting oatmeal as a vitamin rich staple. The guide promotes practical use, budgeting, and family friendly options.
Patterns for decorative angels suitable for bed linens include cheery Good Morning and Good Evening designs. The Crochet edging kit Pattern 48 provides transfer motifs from 4% by 1M inches to 3% by D4 inches, with directions and material lists. Send 19 cents to The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept. for the pattern.
A fragmented note provides guidance on protecting woodwork during painting by cleaning against the wall to shield the surface. The text mentions plate like lines and suggests careful prep work to prevent damage. The readable portion focuses on prep steps and surface protection.
A garbled OCR passage with numerous nonstandard words and scattered letters. It contains stray names and partial phrases that do not form a coherent event or report. The readable segments fail to identify people, places, dates, or concrete actions.
Fragmentary OCR text with garbled words and unclear context. No coherent event, names, or details to summarize into a proper news item or public notice.
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