How to Read Faster and Better by Albert Edward Wigram
An advertisement style fragment promotes reading improvement with a claimed method and a booklet titled How to Read Faster and Better by Albert Edward Wigram. It touts benefits for slow readers, notes a cost of 15 cents, and asks for a self addressed stamped envelope. Also references a humorous passage about men and women and a brief health claim about play, work, love, and worship.
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Albert
Edwart Wigram
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Finelows
Thoughtless Opening Lead in Bridge Hand
In a bridge hand the bidding shows both sides hold trumps and shortness in opposite side suits. West’s choice of opening lead on ten of clubs led to a crossruff by declarer, who ruffed hearts and diamonds to win the hand. If West had opened a trump, East would ruff twice and South would gain limited tricks.
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Worth
South
Declarer
West
East
Doctors Say Body Has Its Own Thermostat
The body regulates its temperature with a brain thermostat and adjusts to weather changes. Normal temperature is about 98.6 degrees F. Fever raises temp during illness, while malnutrition and anemia lower it. Heat comes from digestion and activity. cold lowers circulation more than heat raises it. Comfort follows sensible clothing and awareness of temperature.
Higher Than Niagara Falls in Southeastern Venezuela
A description notes an immense waterfall in Southeastern Venezuela that drops over 5200 feet in one continuous sheet. The feature is sometimes compared in height to Wiagera Falls, appearing nearly as tall at times.
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Venezuela
Wiagera
WIFE HAS 'EM GUESSING No Tax Troubles for Wilbur Peeble
Horace Barnacle frets over income tax while Wilbur Pecle jokes that he avoids taxes by declaring his wife Trellis Mae mentally incompetent to handle finances. Trellis Mae, and their canary Murgatroyd, prompt ongoing disputes with the IRS as Wilbur reports no tax trouble.
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New York
Horace Barnacle
Wilbur Pecle
Horace
Wilbur
Barnacle
Santa Claus
Trelis
Mae
Witoar
Trellis Mac
Trellis Mae
Desdemona
Ven
Internal Revenue
Murgatroyd
Troyd
Mindinie
Harvear
Nce
Washington
Trellis
Internal Revenue Office
Sadie Admits Taking Jim From First Wife in Surprising Claim
In a terse confession she says she took Jim, then lived with him and felt innocent. She argues the act wasn’t theft because what she took was supposedly worthless and claims no crime was committed.
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Sadie
Jim
Card play leads to a heart ruff and overtrick
South ruffs a series of hearts in hand and uses the jack of clubs from dummy to ruff a fourth heart. After a club ace from South shows both opponents follow, he earns his 10th trick. He discards a heart, East ruffs, and leads spades to dummy's king, giving South an overtrick.
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South
East
Milk to Butter and Evaporated Milk Facts
The text notes that 77 quarts of milk yield a pound of butter and that one quart of milk makes a pound of evaporated milk. It also states most of the world's jule crop is grown in Pakistan and that the U S fishery industries employ about 190000 people per the Encyclopedia Britannica.
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Pakistan
Fisheries and Fishery Industries
United States
Encyclopedia
Britannica
Libya Adopts Constitution Under U N Guidance
The Libyan constitution has been adopted with the new government formed under a U N commission. Libya is described as the first free nation established wholly under U N auspices and among the poorest countries in the world according to economic experts. Gehenna is identified as a Biblical term for hell from the valley of hinnom near Jerusalem where refuse burned.
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Gehenna
Hell
Linnom
Jerusalem
Aunt Het says women now co operate more with men
The remark notes women commonly cooperate with their men during courtship, reflecting social change. It highlights a shift in traditional gender roles and suggests greater partnership in dating customs.
Voices From Leaders On War and Labor Demands
Quotes from Michael Calvin John Chapple Clare Holmon Benjamin Fairless and Hoyt Vandenberg reflect unease about labor needs military leadership and the prospects of a general war. They discuss economic shifts under Republican rule federal labor policy public support for MacArthur and the importance of tools and readiness for conflict.
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Michael Calvin
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Albert Edward Wiger
Charles Morton
Wrfe
Oswald Jacoby
NSA
Maceiake East
Long Beach
Los Angeles County Mediaal Association
Gametier
Pine Ave
Wilbur Peeble
Hal Boyle
Packard
Long Beach, Calif
Libya
U.N
Long Beach Press
St. O N. W
Washington &. B.C
Gladys Park
Gladys Gparwar
Avec
Gen
Douglas MacArthur
John Chapple
MacArthur
Noceros
Clare Holmon
Earl Warren
California
Benjamin Fairless
U. S. Steel Corp
Hoyt Vandenberg
Alexander Shultz Furniture Company
Enc
Lakewood Blvd
Lakewood Center
Butler
Philip
Hibbard
Bevees
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