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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1939
Page
7
Ph.D. GARRY C. MYERS urges teachers to ease fear in students struggling with basic arithmetic. He advises individualized checks on addition subtraction and multiplication facts, explains counting aloud harms progress, and recommends calm patient coaching with written practice. Parents should model poise and avoid irritation to prevent tragic learning outcomes.
A trader asks for horses and a boy directs him to a house saying the team is there. The reveller mistakes house numbers causing a sober joke about the numbers 9 and 99.
Three redesigned Chevrolet passenger car series debuted at Standard Motor Co. Inc. on Saturday Oct. 14. Length increases by 43 percent give a sleeker look, with vacuum power shift and helical syncro mesh transmission standard on all models. Chassis share the same wheelbase and six cylinder valve in head engine refined for silent operation and long life.
The text notes a playful exchange about early electrics. A speaker asks who was the first electrician and the reply names Adam, who furnished spare parts for the first loud speaker, reflecting a humorous class reminiscence.
SAME LOW prices on good work clothes with Red Wing Work Shoes from 1.98 up Lace Boots 4.45 up Cowboy Boots 4.95 up Guaranteed Work Trousers 1.15 up Waterproof Jackets from Genuine Army Cloth 2.00 up Pants 2.45 up Sterling Bros.
Norman Baillie Stewart, once a Seaforth Highlander lieutenant, is suspected of broadcasting pro German news from a Nazi radio station with an Oxford accent. He was jailed four years for betraying military secrets to Germany. Parson and Rastus dialogue appears as a dialect joke in the excerpt.
An urging notice for poultry raisers promotes a product that claims to increase egg production and eradicate blue bugs, lice, mites and fleas, reducing worm risk with no production loss. It guarantees money back if not profitable, and is sold exclusively in Fredericksburg at Keidel's Drug Store.
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