Love and aging echo in a farm woman’s dilemma
Julia McFarlane faces loneliness and old constraints as she contemplates love for Dave Patterson while managing her son Ric’s military fate. Jill arrives at a field hotel hoping to reconnect with Spang, while Julia weighs pushing Dave toward Jill to ease her own guilt and secure companionship before aging. The scene blends family duty, war pressures, and imperfect choices amid a rural setting.
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Dave
G.randfather
Jill
Julia
Richard
John I
Ric
McFarlane
Air Corps
Cadet Corps
Joe Gunner
Old John I
Dave Patterson
Ridley Field
Spang
Lieutenant Crawford
Lieutenant Stark
Miss McFarlane
Many Thousands of New Businesses Flourishing in 1946
Washington report shows 365000 new business enterprises in first half 1946 and an expected 687000 for the year. Net growth left total firms at 3.733 million, about 509000 above 1945, with small firms up 10 percent from prewar 1940. Service sectors boom while hotels and amusements lag behind. Construction and retail also surge amid war-era backlogs and material shortages.
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Department of Commerce
Commerce Department
Department
Federal Reserve Board
Dun and Bradstreet
Lily and Swan Bath Set Pattern 5391
Pattern 5391 offers a Swan and Water Lily Bath Set in ready-made quilted cotton or home-quilted fabric. Includes swan in white, pink lilies, green pads, with complete cutting, appliques, and finishing directions. Send 20 cents, name, address, and pattern number for instructions and transfers.
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Lily
Swan
Quiz clues from a General Knowledge page
A series of trivia prompts asks about state creation how to spell ingenious the Hebrews Palestine the first newspaper and a condemned man's death choice the term congresswoman Bismarck's wars and Buffalo Bill's real name.
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Palestine
Congress
Prince Otto von Bismarck
Germany
Buffalo Bill
Answers and terms from historical quiz items
Questions cover sources and definitions. Notable entries include congress power, a definition of ingenious marked as open and frank, the Land of Canaan, Rome’s Acta Diurna as the earliest newspaper, Utah, a congresswoman described by state, a group including Denmark Austria and France, and the frontiersman William Frederick Cody.
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Congress
Canaan
Acta Diurna
Rome
B. C
Utah
Denmark
Austria
France
William Frederick Cody
London stage play on atomic energy in 1929
A Collier’s account describes Wings Over Europe, a London stage drama where a scientist who can control atomic energy offers the secret to the British cabinet. Believing him a crack, officials threaten, and he is murdered. Scientists then reveal they too possess the secret but vow to use it for mankind if needed.
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London
Collier’s
Europe
Misprint Found in Eight Decade Old Anglo Egyptian Stamp
An Anglo Egyptian Sudan postage stamp issued 48 years ago was found to spell the Arabic plural of piaster as a singular. The error was noticed by an American, prompting attention to the stamp’s inscription.
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Sudan
Wake up with lemon water for gentle daily relief
A health ad promotes a morning regimen of one Sunkist Lemon in water on an empty stomach to stimulate regular bowel action. It claims lemons boost vitamin C and other nutrients, aid digestion, and help alkalinize the body, urging a 10 morning trial using California Sunkist Lemons.
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Sunkist
California
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Dooley
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Washington
Walter Shead
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Washington Bureau
Eye St
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Sewing Circle
South Wells St
Chicago
Mee
U. S. Army
Roko Company
Baltimore
Kansas City
Kelloggs
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