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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1940
Page
6
Berlin reports a synthetic resin now used for bricklayer tools including floats and levels. The material is lighter, durable, weather resistant, and claimed to resist splintering, with resin cured under pressure.
Careful shopping yields affordable meatless meals for Lent. The recipe by Mrs. Maddox outlines timbales with macaroni and cheese, celery, and peas served with orange sherbet, plus an egg and cheese batter dish. A note mentions inviting Newfoundland sailors to No 9 Downing Street for a chat.
New Yorkers discover an American ballet, with the Ballet Theater at Radio City delivering excitement and Broadway style energy. After three weeks at the Center Theater, Manhattan finds ballet can be a sensational crowd pleaser, lifting the venue from underperforming status to a genuine success. The article highlights that the finest dancers bring the brilliance, redefining New York’s formal dance scene.
A chaotic Pacific coast scene blends kitchen table ballet gossip with a fire at a farm home in Potter Kansas. Mrs Rice fights flames through roof and floor, while a buzzing mix of Russian dancers and American talent headlines a theater piece. Billowing reports link Paris and Moscow in a surreal cultural collage.
A fragment notes the Duchess of Windsor exploring a novel mitten design featuring a slide fastener to release the rigger finger. It muses on wartime needs and weaving sheepskins, suggesting practical fashion innovation amid shortages.
In Modale area near Shawnee Oklahoma Albert Raymond Boswell and the Smith brothers Claud Plus are blind but manage a 138 acre farm. Claud and Plus handle farming tasks while Larry, their brother, acts as their eyes. They milk cows, tend stock, start the tractor, and keep the home and church building in order with remarkable skill.
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