Noises in the Night Predicted by a Cowardly Frank
Frank Barry of Albion Michigan tells how a 1922 cellar scare ended with a 500 pound boar hog chasing him from the cellar. He feared burglars yet met a nonhuman threat, falling to the floor as the hog retrieved its night snack. His wife laughs at the tale but Frank recalls the fright as real.
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Washington
Fiorello H. LaGuardia
New York
Marshall Foch
General Pershing
Sen
Bennett Clark
H. L. Mencken
Frank Barry
Frank
Albion, Mich
Western Newspaper Union
Back Drop Aids TV Tubes Promising Sharper Broadcast Images
Patent 2,156,391 to Willard Hickok of Bloomfield New Jersey describes a black back drop film of graphite at the rear of a transparent mica support for photo electric elements in a television transmitting tube. Light from the image reflects, bounces off tube walls onto the screen forming a double image while the photo electric elements scatter light, a process once known to blur the broadcast image.
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Willard. Hickok
Bloomfield
N. J
Enchanted Cottage Quilt Pattern Ad From The Sewing Circle
Enchanted Cottage decorates each quilt block with a house scene. Use bright scraps for the house and plain material for shrubbery. Pattern 6384 includes block chart color schemes yardage and illustrated pieces. Send 15 cents to The Sewing Circle 259 W 14th St New York NY.
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Household Arts Dept
W. 14Th St
New York
N. Y
Idle and poor reproofs push men to hide poverty
The quote notes that reproaches about idleness and poverty drive people to conceal their condition both from others and themselves, reflecting on human vanity and the urge to present a prouder appearance. Samuel Johnson is cited.
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Samuel Johnson
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