Africa hosts lions zebras and gorillas in Uncle Rays Corner
Africa hosts lions and zebras with stripes helping zebras hide in grass. Lions roam southern Africa near the Sahara edge while central forests harbor gorillas and apes. Uncle Ray notes gorillas struggle in captivity and offers a leaf copy via a stamped self addressed envelope. Tomorrow: Ethiopian Customs.
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Asia
Africa
Sahara Desert
Ethiopia
Central Africa
Flying Machine Pioneers
Uncle Ray
Arizona in the making a Hollywood town and river
Wesley Ruggles with Jean Arthur Bill Holden and Columbia Studio plans a $1.5 million film Arizona near Tucson Arizona. The set recreates old Tucson with an adobe wall and a river that runs both directions as engineers build a 725 foot trench and reservoir system. The production requires thousands of animals wagons and props with many items manufactured in Hollywood and shipped to Arizona.
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Hollywood
Arizona
Wesley Ruggies
Jean Arthur
Bill Holden
Columbia Studios
Ruggles
Tucson
Ariz
Clarence Buddington Kelland
United States
Columbia
Look and Learn Quiz and Word Study Excerpt
Questions ask which president faced impeachment hydrogen formed by water Egyptians hatched poultry by incubators gravity sugar weight and the most easterly mainland North America Labrador. Word study defines ominous and urges vocabulary growth with a Coleridge quote.
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U.S
North America
Lessons in English Misused Words and Pronunciation
A compact guide notes common errors in English usage and pronunciation. It warns against saying insulting terms and suggests alternatives like beautiful or becoming for hat descriptions. It also highlights a misspelled factory pronunciation, urging careful articulation of syllables.
How to safely cool a hot oven and stitch silk
The guide explains cooling methods for a very hot oven by placing a pan of cold water inside to lower the temperature gradually. It also suggests laying white paper under silk material and stitching through it to prevent puckering or drawing on a sewing machine.
Napkin folding and etiquette Q&A from the era
A set of brief etiquette items notes confidence limits, proper napkin placement at the left of the plate with triangle base parallel to the fork, and how to address a Protestant minister as Mister Norton unless he holds a Doctor or Dean title.
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Mister Norton
Velvet Cleaning Tips and Insecticide Demand Rise
The text discusses removing rain spots from velvet by sponging with gasoline in a single direction. It notes growing demand for insecticides despite India's aversion to taking life.
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India
Right or Wrong About People
Donald A. Laird discusses common beliefs about human behavior and judgment, examining errors in thinking and biases that influence everyday assessments. The piece blends psychology basics with practical insights for better interpersonal understanding and decision making.
Why Is Insanity Increasing
Dr Laird argues that the rise in mental illness is tied to an aging population and arterial hardening rather than rising madness among the young. He notes diagnostic advances and treatments may improve outcomes, and downplays fears of a nationwide insanity surge by 1975.
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Donald A. Laird
March of Science
NEA Service, Inc
Eddie Cavalier Seeks Title While Onboard Voyage
Val Douglas, a girl sports writer, sails aboard the Northern Belle with Eddie Cavalier a prize fighter headed for the title. They bond over games and talk of the future as a stormy voyage unfolds and he reveals his backstory and plans to retire into the sporting goods business.
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Val Douglas
Eddie Cavalier
Val
Steve Hansen
Northern Belle
Duffy Kelso
Cavalier
Eddie
Sea Air
Wong
Mike Kelly
Hansen
Dempsey
Walker
Canzoneri
Duffy
Crossword Puzzle Clue List Horizontals
The puzzle presents a horizontal set of clues including coat of arms pictured for number 7, home for 1000 years, eggs for 12, fertile spots for 13, room recess for 15, cows home for 16, furtive fellow for 17, oxhide strap for 18, forearm bone for 20, parts of keels for 21, to do again for 22, pair abbrev for 23, to add to for 25, yellow bird for 26, fatty for 27, large seaweed for 31, food fish for 34, mongrel for 35, epochs for 36, provided for 37, camel cloth for 39, bubble in glass for 40.
Coat of Arms Puzzle Answers and Clues
A list of cryptic style clues with numbers and hints. Includes geography terms like land governed by a regent and river in a kingdom, plus clues for words such as demigoddess fate and emaciated. The vertical answers cross with foreign and domestic references and abbrs.
Two-bid responses in bridge and the four spades jump
McKenny on Bridge outlines preferred two-bid responses including with two aces four no trump and with a trick and a half no ace three no trump for short of a trick and a half. It discusses hand evaluation and cautions against jumping to four spades after a three hearts bid.
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South
West
North
Haircare and skin study from Elizabethan and modern tests
The article notes Elizabethan hair pomade made from pear pulp rosemary and lard. It cites a test of 4 10 000 cases in England finding women’s skin on average one degree cooler than men’s.
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England
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