Murder at Ace’s camp drives town into suspense
Mrs. Avery learns Ace Blaikie’s murder shocks the town after a masquerade and a death toll piles up. Bruce Hexson, Margaret Fairweather and Hannah among suspects while police keep watch and Mary navigates fear, duty, and hospitalities.
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Sarah Darbe
Sarah
Mr. Hopestill
Miss Prentiss
Mrs. Avery
Bessie
Patrick
Flora
Margaret
Tony
Molly Eames
Molly Treadway
Molly
Walter
Margaret Fairweather
Hannah
Ace Blaikie
Ace
Miss Fairweather
Morning tennis match referenced in personal diary fragment
Fragment describes a Tuesday morning routine with sleeping in and breakfast with Hopestill and Sylvia before a tennis game with Caro Prentiss. The note preserves names and a simple sequence of actions without broader context.
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Hopestill
Sylvia
Diet of Ostriches in the Wild
The ostrich diet is almost wholly vegetable, consisting of seeds fruits and grasses. Eggs and insects are rarely eaten. They swallow small stones and gravel to aid digestion.
Wardrobe labors, young stars and studio tales
The piece recounts Lloyds of London wardrobe demands for 1771 to 1806 fashion eras and an annexed unit for 80 seamstresses per shift. It notes Deanna Durbin rising on CBS, Leslie Howard's daughter audition debates, Monte Blue as John Deere in The Blacksmith's Gift, and Mary Rogers at Twentieth Century Fox with famed actors like Warner Baxter.
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Adah
Bruce
Mary
Ace
Mattie Stow
Bruce Hexson
T*o
Roger
20Th Century-Fox
Lloyds of London
Monte Blue
Jéaul
John Deere
Abraham Lincoln
Mary Rogers
Will
Twentieth Century - Fox Studios
Where Speech Comes From
Actual speech is an exclusive human achievement requiring not only articulate sounds but memory associations with objects ideas and emotions. Neuroscientists attribute the brain’s Broca area as the center for this associative process located in both frontal lobes.
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Broca
Keeping Christmas Faith in Home Atmosphere
A Bell Syndicate column urges preserving the Christmas spirit at home by avoiding quarrels and haste. It stresses personal influence on family mood, the value of patience and cheer, and the need for Moms and Dads to model calm, loving conduct during pre holiday preparations.
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Bell Syndicate
WNU Service
Old Wooden Rocker Keeps Silent Watch at Home
A verse recalls an enduring wooden rocker in a quiet back parlor. The speaker and sister remember gatherings with grandmother, listening to stories told beside that tall, dusty chair once central to family life in days past.
Leaning Tower of Pijnacker Draws Official Study
The village church tower in Pijnacker near The Hague leans increasingly, now four feet from vertical after dating to the thirteenth century. At 140 feet tall, experts will evaluate future danger and possible measures to avert it, with the 1400 bell cast by Modestri var Heymdyn.
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Pijnacker
Hague
Modestri Var Heymdyn
London Times
Meat kept eight years with FIGARO smoke claims
A South Carolina storekeeper reports a ribbed belly of meat aged eight years hanging beside his door remains firm and fresh after applying FIGARO Condensed Smoke. The ad touts thorough smoking to prevent rancidity and pests, cites two billion pounds smoked, and offers 32 oz and 16 oz sizes at $1.50 and $1.00 respectively.
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Ripley
John
Hill
South Carolina
S. Eugene Colgin
Texas
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Inez Haynes Irwin
Caro Prentiss
Satan
Hope
Mrs. Thelford
Avery
Sarah Darde
Brenda Thelford
Sam
Berry
Hexson
Bradford
Jay
Virginia Vale
Deanna Durbin
Eddie Cantor
CBS
Miss Durbin
Hollywood
Leslie Howard
Leslie Ruth
Paramount
Leslie Ruth Howard
Papa
New York
June Lang
Warner Baxter
Baxter
Miss Lang
Claire Trevor
Garden of Allah
Charles Boyer
Marlene Dietrich
Merle Oberon
Eleanor Powell
Western Newspaper Union
Figaro
E. Colgin
Figaro Co
Dallas
Tex
Syndieatane
Saiffi Ph
Eddie Selzer
Picure
Comfortasle
Gluyas Williams
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