Poor Man's Philosopher Measures Santa Claus Couch Trap
Hal Boyle recalls a humorous Christmas misfortune as Santa delivers a couch for his brown study. Express men struggle to fit the heavy frame through a doorway after seventeen tries, leaving the couch stuck in the living room. He charms readers with goodwill notes from fans and a playful romp about Santa’s gift cedar.
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Holland and Indonesia show colonialism fading in new unions
AP Foreign Affairs Analyst Dewitt Mackenzie notes Queen Wilhelmina’s 1930s pledge that colonialism is dead and surveys a Dutch shift toward autonomous blocs. He discusses the United States of Indonesia and a potential West Indies Surinam federation, with economic implications for the Netherlands.
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Dr. Preston Eyes North Jay Native and Retired Professor
Short obituary note records Dr. Preston Eyes born in Sweden and living in North Jay Maine as a physician and retired University of Chicago professor. It also mentions Dr. Norman J Ware of San Juan Puerto Rico, age 63, and notes a 1949 nine month period with low totals of man hours lost to strikes.
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Maine
Preston Eyes
University of Chicago
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Norman J Ware
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Nations Rail
Answers to reader questions in The Haskin Service
A long Q A feature provides brief factual answers on topics from vehicle inspections and Omar Khayyam to Mother Goose names and World War II breakwaters. It covers state inspection history, explorers trade, and notable curiosities with dates and names.
Webster Illustrated Tower dictionary and atlas offer
In schools and homes every scholar needs a dictionary and more with a compact illustrated reference. The Webster set includes geographic maps color plates and encyclopedic supplements plus legal terms and antonyms. Postpaid for 40 cents from the La Crosse Tribune Information Bureau, Washington 2 DC.
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la Crosse Tribune Information Bureau
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Germ war plan tied to U S and Britain, Soviet trial reports say
Soviet press reports from the Khabarovsk trial of 12 Japanese officers allege a germ warfare plan aimed at the United States and Britain. Japanese officers describe experiments on American prisoners to test disease immunity and how air shipments of germs could be used against civilian populations.
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United States
Britain
Pe Oe
Khabarovsk
Siber
Gen
Otozoo
Passenger knit bag to pass time at delayed London airport
Twenty of twenty one travelers waited five hours for a flight to Brazil at London airport. The lone passenger, Peter Seligman, used a 12 inch wooden needle and 100 yards of fishing line to knit a shopping bag for his wife as a cure for boredom.
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London Airport
Brazil
Satween
Peter Seligman
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