Hollywood scraps and star contracts in 1935 notes
The column reviews Mira Hopkins planning to adopt, Michael gaining a road home, and Miriam’s desire for a family. It highlights The Thin Man and Rendezvous films, predicts The Informer’s acclaim, and lists top 1935 pictures. RKO signs a new actress for four pictures at high weekly rates amid agency shifts. Hollywood’s talent moves include Gary Cooper’s Bermuda vacation and stage ambitions for film stars, with industry gossip on contracts and industry deaths.
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Mira Hopkins
Michael
Tote
Miriam
Mattimony
Chicago
Tone
New York
RKO
Leland Hayward
Katherine Hepburn
Florida Goods From Turpines To Turtles And Lumber
Florida’s economy blooms with turpentine rosin and lumber while turtles feed ships and hotels. The state ships turtle meat and shells, glass bottles, and cigars from Tampa and Miami, and digs clay and fossils for world use. Gulf waters teem with tarpon and tuna as anglers chase fame from Key West to Jacksonville.
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Florida
Jacksonville
California
Canadas
Honduras
Key West
New York
North
Middle
North Florida
Great Bollera
Suwannee
United States
Izaak Walton
Gulf
Gulf of Mexico
Tung
Dolphin
Grouper
Coral Barrier
Miami Beach
Walt
Coral Head
Sea Fore
Owl Wagon Chefs and the Rise of Roadside Dining
A reader urges more space for the topic of jeacks cooking and food’s influence. The author argues Americans overindulge, praising owl wagon chefs as future saviors who transformed roadside dining with clean, efficient service and electric equipment. He touts eight-hour shifts, cooler, well‑presented fare, and roadside truckers as the best judges of good cooking.
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United States
America
Owl
Atlantic States
New Orleans
Avery
W. C. Fielda
New York City
Poughkeepsie
The Story of Hattie
Hattie comes from a long line of travelers and explorers with gypsy blood and Arctic, polar, and aviation ties. Her father flew over the South Pole, her family dreamt of global roaming, and she left at seventeen to marry a local man, challenging parental dreams of cosmopolitan life.
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Hattie
Stanley
Africa
Arctic
Phineas
South Pole
North Pole
Paris
Omsk
Vienna
Pelplog
Wappinger Falla
Hattle
What’s Wrong With These Sentences
A jumble of quoted lines and stray fragments shows garbled speech and OCR errors. It includes mispunctuated dialogue about bookings, speeches, and fashion, plus a series of disjointed questions and stray phrases about bathing suits, a beach scene, and an election bet.
Curious Facts for Curious People
A fragmented column of odd statements covers a mix of trivia about the American Indiana, animal fears of certain drums, pink beards, improvised rowing with an outboard motor, Fourth of July reference, garbled phrases, and a claim about the can opener inventor. It also mentions New Haven Railroad shoe etiquette and a remark about stomach digestion with synthetic gin avoidance.
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Indiana
Chariie
New Haven
Scrambled Letters Contest City Names Puzzle
A jumble of American city names appears in scrambled form such as Phildellapiha and Nwe Ykor. The text also includes home garden verses, cryptic statements about pedantry and misstatements about capitals and rivers, plus a long list of erroneous geography claims to test careful reading.
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Phildellapiha
Albnny
Nwe
Ykor
Chillicoeth
Obsnot
Log
Cogphia
Reon
Nas Cofrancis
Palmheaeh
New Orlneas
Imaim
Hartdorf
Jackaonllely
Crocheted Jap Lantern Potholders Offer Attractively
A Home Craft Co. pattern No 182 shows heavy cotton potholders 6 inches each in red green yellow with identical design and color-reversal. Instructions with or without materials mailed for 10 or 40 cents from Dept B, Home Craft Co., Nineteenth and St Louis Ave, St Louis MO. Include stamped self addressed envelope.
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Address Home Craft Co
Dept. B
Nineteenth and
St. Louia Ave
St. Louia
Killing of White Rhino Triggers South African Hunt
A rare white rhinoceros was killed near Mahlabatini prompting a wide hunt for the culprits. Officials report the animal was part of a small herd of fewer than 200 and efforts focused on preserving the valuable carcass as poachers were interrupted. The incident broadens concern after recent game killings including hippopotami.
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South Africa
Philadelphia Inquirer
Wrigley Co Announces Employee Pension Plan
The William Wrigley Jr. Company unveils a pension plan effective immediately, benefiting over 1,300 workers. Under the plan both company and employee contribute for a future service pension on an atty-atty basis, with retirement age set at sixty five.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wrigley Co
Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company
Wrigley
Postum Free Week Offer Promises Health Boost
A Postum Company advertisement invites readers to request a full week's supply of Postum free of charge. The offer promises health benefits and asks individuals to write in to receive the sample. The notice appears in another portion of the same newspaper issue.
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Postum Company
Ady
Dare and Dare Again Maxim for Perseverance
The passage urges relentless daring to win fortune in life. It proclaims that the world yields to bold action, and if defeated, one should dare again, as persistence leads to success.
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Ufe
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