Match of the century awaits Haag’s U S run
Swedish distance star Gunder Haag sails to America ready to challenge top U S runners in New York AAU events. He aims to race 1500m and 5000m, likely facing Greg Rice, with benefits from meets going to war relief causes and U S Air Forces Aid society.
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Bashful Gunder Haag
United States
America
Greg Rice
Notre Dame
Gave
Haag
Goteborg
Atlantic
Europe
AAU
New York
Rice
United States Maritime Service
Dan Ferris
U.S. Air Forces’ Aid Society
Italy
Pietri Dorando
John J. Hayes
Old
Madison Square Garden
Hayes
London
Dorando
Gargantua the gorilla stirs debate on fighters and fear
The piece weighs Gargantua the 600 pound jungle monster against Tunney Dempsey and Louis. Authors argue the black leopard or grizzly outranks, while wrestling with the idea that three boxing greats could not tame Gargantua. The column blends circus lore and sports notes.
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Rthur Brisbane
Gene Tunney
Jack Dempsey
Tunney
Mr. Brisbane
Joe Louis
Frank Buck
Beau Jack
Henry Armstrong
Crops and Stock Thrive On Northerly Arctic Farm
The Norilsk State farm, on the 70th parallel, endures two months of Arctic night and 60 below zero. Open fields grow potatoes, cabbages, onions, carrots, and sugar beets while 28 hot houses produce tomatoes cucumbers and spinach. Livestock rises with 133 Arctic cows and a subsidiary farm holds 200 pure Yorkshire pigs.
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Norilsk
Arctic
Yorkshire
Attractive frock pattern for housework days
This Sew and Save pattern No. 8367 promises a flattering frock with good lines that makes housework seem easy. It lists sizes 34 through 48, notes size 36 uses short sleeves and requires 4 yards of 35 inch fabric and 3 yards of braid trim.
Eye-Catching Frock Pattern No 8396 For Sizes 12–20
A fashion description touts a pretty frock with sweetheart neck and dirnd skirt. Pattern No 8396 comes in sizes 12 through 20, with size 14 requiring 332 yards of 39 inch fabric. War demands may delay some orders. send orders to the given address.
Gay Bluebird Kitchen Towels Pattern No 7492
Quick to-do kitchen towels brighten the color scheme. Pattern 7492 shows transfer motifs averaging 514 by 744 inches with stitches and materials listed. Current war delays require more time for popular numbers. Send 16 cents plus mailing to Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept. 117 Minna St San Francisco California for Pattern No.
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Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
South Wells St
Chicago
Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept
Minna St
San Francisco, Calif
To Be Sure It’s Simple With the Man’s Hat Off
A woman asks a photographer to enlarge a portrait of her husband and remove his hat. The pro vided dialogue leads to a joke about revealing hair when the hat is removed. The photographer asks where the hair parts, and she answers he will see it once the hat is taken off.
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Gargantua
Yankees
Ruth
Gehrig
Meusel
Dickey
DiMaggio
Joe McCarthy
McCarthy
Mother
Fleischmanns
Gems of Thought Quotations and Reflections
A collection of brief literary lines emphasizes education, planting trees as a civic act, prize of meaningful work, and the value of character built on faith and kindness. The quotes cite James Truslow Adams Theodore Roosevelt and unspecified authors, highlighting living well and doing valuable work.
Household Tips for Cooking and Care in Wartime Kitchens
Practical homemaking advice covers thickening berry pies with tapioca, securing coat buttons with a back button stitch, watering plants with a sponge, glycerine in wash water to prevent wool shrinkage, vinegar to remove odors, reactivating onions or fish scents, potato to correct salty soup, raw potato for fridge odors, salt-clean jars with salt, squash served with white sauce and cheese, and using an alarm clock to time cakes when guests visit.
Audio-scale aids blind weighing by sound at federation
A new instrument called the audio-scale, demonstrated at the American Federation for the Blind, lets the blind weigh small articles by sound. Suggested by Evelyn Watson, it attaches to any balance and uses aeroplane radio beam tones to indicate weight. It is seen as opening new war industry fields for the blind.
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American Federation For the Blind
Evelyn Watson
Speeding Motorist Named in Cop’s Notebook Entry
A stamped entry identifies Aloysius Sebastian Cyprian as a motorist caught speeding. The traffic officer warns him to avoid a repeat offense as the notebook is closed.
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Trafic
Aloysius Sebastian Cyprian
Uncalled for Help Missus Rouses Husband
A wife alerts her husband to a possible burglary as a window to the living room proves stubborn to move since a recent painter’s visit. The exchange captures a tense domestic moment with a potential intruder nearby.
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Missus
School Note Sparks Humorous Reply from Student
A teacher asks Johnny's mother to bathe him after a note home. The next day Johnny replies, humorously stating that when he goes to school he is sent to be learned not to be smelt, adding that he is no rose.
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Johnny
Miss Smith
Do You Think You Could Learn to Love Me
A brief dialogue hints at romantic uncertainty as one person asks about learning love while the other tempers expectations with a quip about being an acquired taste. The exchange suggests hesitancy and witty self-awareness.
Added Weight Visitor-Sonny upstairs mystery
A visitor questions what is upstairs while Sonny describes a scene with Ma dragging pants and noise. Two women move through the area as husbands are noted to be walking, hinting at a tense domestic moment.
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Sonny
Reda
Safest Doctor Sleep Talk Quick Witty Exchange
A humorous exchange features a doctor asked about sleeping talks and a witty reply. The doctor suggests nothing harmful, and the wife’s warning prompts a light, domestic moment.
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Buck
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Brunner
Theodore Roosevelt
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Arcot
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Wille
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