Camp Fire Girls Junior High Learn Outdoor Living Pioneers
The Camp Fire Girls program exposes junior high students to rugged outdoor living across camps in Washington Iowa Oregon and North Dakota. Girls cook on improvised stoves build shelters from local materials and learn navigation and safety rules including carrying a Lost Kit with basic tools and supplies. Adee the fawn and chipmunks visit Gypsy Haven as senior campers paddle Des Moines river in a 24 foot war canoe and older girls inhabit tree house units in Dickinson.
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America
Whitman
Wash
Gypsy Haven
Adee
Des Moines
Lucky Horizon Club
Des Moines River
Portland
Ore
Dickinson
N. D
N. D., Where Camp Fire
Blue Birds
Camp Fire Girls
San Diego
Ernest F. Schmidt
Schiff Outdoor Activities
Mendham
N.J
Dr Christian contest judges and prize winners announced
The Dr Christian script contest judges include Ruth Chatterton Rouben Mamoulian and Kenneth MacGowan. The winning script earns its writer 2000 dollars and will be broadcast this week. Second through fourth prizes pay 500 dollars, other broadcast scripts 250 to 300 dollars, with Jean Hersholt always in a key role.
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Jean Hersholt
Mrs. America
Was an American Spy true story of Claire Phillips
Ann Dvorak impersonates Claire Phillips in this Allied Artists film about the fearless American espionage agent in the Philippines. General Mark Clark appears as himself in the prologue.
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Claire Phillips
Philippines
Ann Dvorak
Allied Artists
Mark Clark
LAST WEEK'S ACRO PUZZLE CLUES FIND WORDS
A mixed list of across and down clues offering wordplay for a past week’s puzzle. Includes sections on verbs nouns and abbreviations with entries like Tremble and Bucket across and Suffered and Abyss down.
Electrification boosts farm output on Motz’s Ohio farm
On the Joseph Motz farm near West Farmington Ohio electricity expanded production over seven years. Since 1944 when power reached the 262 acre farm the farmer’s hourly earnings rose from 66 cents to $1.17 by 1950, a 51 percent gain, with profits funded by farm operation earnings. The test by Westinghouse and Ohio Public Service Company used typical farming conditions.
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Joseph Motz
West Farmington
Ohio
Westinghouse
Ohio Public Service Company
Motz
Metz
The Outboard Magnet Gambit on Mirror Lake
Freda Brandon meets Len Curtain a self titled outboard fixer at Mirror Lake. after a dead engine he ingratiates himself with bragging about snagging motors with a magnet and offers marriage plus dreams of invention. Freda weighs Ray Hubbard while Len pursues a summer fling and romance ends with a kiss.
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Freda
Mirror Lake
Len Curtain
Freda Brandon
Ray Hubbard
Ray
Len
Ray Hupbard
Dawes and Chicago Century of Progress Shaped City
Wright A Patterson recounts Gen Charles G Dawes and his brother Rufus driving Chicago’s Century of Progress exposition in 1933. Dawes stood at gates guiding admissions, financing the project, and leaving a landscape that defined the lake front park. The piece also touches on postwar politics, Hoover, MacArthur, and Dean Acheson amid Truman era tensions.
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Charles G. Dawes
Rufus
Chicago
Lake Front
MacArthur
J. Edgar Hoover
Dean Acheson
New Potato Products Help Hold Market Share
New potato products and distribution methods are helping to hold markets against competition from other foods. Potato chips account for about 9 percent of all potatoes consumed, about 22 million bushels in 1950, and the industry totals around 200 million dollars. Pre peeled potatoes used by restaurants are gaining wide acceptance.
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Iowa
13 year old sells champion steer for world record price
Andrew Tatsch of Crabapple near Fredericksburg Texas sold his 1000 pound grand champion steer Shorty at the San Antonio stock show for a world record price of 21000 dollars. Buyer was B B McGimsey. The 13 year old plans to use the money to buy a ranch.
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Andrew Tatsch
B. B. McGimsey
San Antonio
Shorty
Young Tatsch
Crabapple
Fredericksburg
Texas
Cancer in Large Animals Is Difficult to Detect
The death of Cacique, a renowned stallion of pure Arab bloodlines, highlights how stomach cancer in large animals is nearly impossible to diagnose early. The Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association notes vague symptoms and rapid death, underscoring diagnostic challenges.
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Cacique
Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association
Sewing Circle Patterns for Easy Summer Girl Outfit
Pattern No 1782 offers a princess line dress and flat opening bonnet for ages 2 3 4 6 years. Includes yardage for 35 or 39 inch fabric and a Spring Summer Stylist issue with 48 pages of smart easy to sew styles plus fabric news and gift patterns. 25 cents.
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Dmart
Tape tricks turn household quick fixes into tips
A homemaker shares numerous uses for transparent cellophane tape from pin the tail on the donkey to sealing linoleum seams and preventing plaster cracks. Suggestions include repairing eyeglasses, binding curtain rod ends, securing cheese on mousetraps, and stabilizing watch crystals with tape.
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Inez Gerhard
Judy Garland
Continent
Scotland
Bing Crosby
Dana Andrews
RKO Radio
Carleton Young
Monte Cristo
Egypt
Switzerland
Arabia
Tor
Charles Dawes
By Wright A. Patterson
Dawes
France
England
Treasury
Dawes Bank
Central Trust of
Ilinois
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Washington
Douglas MacArthur
Truman
F.B.I
Hoover
Alger Hiss
Stalin
Sweet Party
Ousehold
Crazy Water Co., Inc
Mineral Wells
West Adams
P.O
St.Joseph
Dean
Doan
Pitts
Lydia Brinkham
Pinkeham
Lydia E&. Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Perkins
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