Today's Grab Bag Questions and Historical Names
A quiz pullout lists questions on cent parts, dances, underground railroads, fogorithms, and immigration terms. It notes 1817 John Chapman Johnny Appleseed died and 1940s leaders with a Far East and Suez focus, plus a biographical clue about a Collina born actor-to-texas mover.
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John Chapman
Johnny Appleseed
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hendrik van Loon
Unknown actor and oil salesman actor debut 1939 Pasadena linkage
The column lists an actor and oil salesman tied to Pasadena Community Playhouse. It cites film credits from 1939 onward including The Westerner Best Years of Our Lives Canyon Passage Boomerang Night Song Daisy Kenyon Tron Curtain Deep Waters Sword in the Desert Edge of Doom Where the Sidewalk Ends Sealed Cargo The Frogmen and I Want You. A Browning quote closes the item.
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Pasadena Community Playhouse
King Frederick IX Birthday and Notable Figures
The note marks King Frederick IX of Denmark celebrating his birthday alongside references to eminent atomic scientist Vannevar Bush and former screen and stage actress Dorothy Gish.
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Frederick IX
Denmark
Vannevar Bush
Dorothy Gish
Canasta Question on Meld Out and Permission
A reader asks about legal procedure when discarding and requesting permission to meld out in Canasta. The columnist notes that asking permission before or after drawing is legal, and explains that the question often aims to reveal strategy or force a choice before committing.
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Jacoby
Mr. Jacoby
Teen girls train in home nursing at Milwaukee school
Teen-ager students at South Division High School in Milwaukee learn home nursing to care for parents and grandparents. Jese teaches a course on caring for the aged ill and injured in case they must be the sole caregivers someday.
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Milwaukee
South Division
Igh School
Jese
Horoscope Note for Birth on This Date
You are advised not to depend on others to help you work out your problems. A fair measure of success and happiness is foretold. Moderate success and popularity should attend the child born on this date.
Fragmented OCR prompts five clues and garbled text
A set of five items includes two clear clues One tenth and Castaneta a historical description of aiding runaway slaves before the Civil War and a vague schoolbook algebraic term plus a garbled foreign phrase suggesting a misread immigrant text. This OCR yields partial hints without a cohesive article.
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U. S
Try and Stop Me by William Faulkner and others
An assortment of notes mentions William Faulkner in Mississippi and a field helper mule team, a revivalist’s temper, and a comic quip about arguing with a woman by Nicholas Monsarrat. The passage is a collage of literary mentions and comic lines from 1952.
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William Faulkner
Mississippi
Faulkner
Nicholas Monsarrat
Monsarrat
Bennett Cerf
Kine Features Syndicate
Motorized bar stool and other curiosities in old newspapers
A Detroit bartender showcases a motorized stool that rides along a steel track behind the bar with wheels and dual switches. The column also notes aphorisms on nutrition, fashion previews, political convention delays, and assorted light miscellaneous items from a midcentury clipping.
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Detroit
Gerontological Congress
Peekskill
Evening Star
G.O.P
Jon
Pal
Smith
Radio- Electronics Magazine
Hugo Gernsback
New Jersey
Joe King
Joe
King's
The Shortage May Be Averted
Akron based report says government relief on man made rubber restrictions will allow tire makers to produce at least 71 million passenger car tires in 1952. James J. Newman of B F Goodrich notes shortage would have followed peak 1950 demand for replacement tires on 6 million new cars.
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AKRON
INS
James J. Newman
B. F. Goodrich Company
TV Is Predicted Across Oceans
Syracuse report of Dr. Walter R. G. Baker of General Electric predicting transoceanic television within the present generation. He notes America leads in receivers with 14 million, England around one million, Italy and France with few transmitters, and asserts TV behind the Iron Curtain has existed.
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Syracuse
Walter R. G. Baker
General Electric
Baker
WAGB
Schenectady
N. Y
America
Italy
France
England
Russia
Sven
Uncertain Treatments for Spinal Arthritis Revealed
The article describes several forms of spinal arthritis, noting variable symptom onset and limited cures. It discusses back braces, heat, massage, and physical therapy, plus rare reports of X ray, cortisone, and ACTH treatments, stressing the need for accurate diagnosis.
Tutela Heights house of Bell preserved as Brantford museum
The Tutela Heights residence of Alexander Graham Bell has been maintained as a museum in Brantford Ontario, showcasing early life and experiments in telecommunication. The site remains a key historic landmark for visitors and scholars.
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Tutela Heights
Alexander Graham. Bell
Brantford
Ontario
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