Redheaded Gals in Hollywood and History
A portrait of redheaded women in film and culture. Notables include Virginia Van Upp Rita Hayworth Greer Garson Mary Astor Barbara Stanwyck Lucille Ball Jeanette MacDonald Marlene Dietrich Susan Hayward Ann Sheridan Dinah Shore Billie Burke Sarah Bernhardt Modjeska Rejane Lotta Crabtree Ellen Terry Mrs. Leslie Carter and others. The piece praises ambition grit and impact while noting playful danger in their temper and hair. It closes with a note on Buddy DeSylva and Leo McCarey youth contract history.
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Columbia
Rita Hayworth
Marc Platt
Oklahoma
Marc
Greer Garson
Mrs. Miniver
Madame Curie
Mary Astor
Barbara Stanwyck
Lucille Ball
Jeanette MacDonald
Jeanette
Marlene Dietrich
Joe von Sternberg
Marlene
Chichi
Jimmy Stewart
Destry
Una Merkel
Sarah Bernhardt
Modjeska
Rejane
Lotta Crabtree
Ellen Terry
Leslie Carter
Remembering a Summer of War Time Whims and Warnings
A nostalgic column recalls prewar summers with jokes about Hitler, rationing, and home front life. It contrasts youth wartime fears and misunderstandings with peacetime conveniences, noting Swiss policy shifts, film censorship, and pop culture quips. The piece weighs memorandum and memory of a bygone era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Babe Ruth
Barbara Bell Pattern Notes and Order Details
The notice advertises Barbara Bell sewing patterns No 1206 and 1216 with sizes 11 through 18 and 36 to 52. It highlights jumper and slip designs with wide shoulder straps, color options, material yardage, and that orders require 25 cents plus name address pattern number and size. It also warns of longer fulfillment due to high demand during wartime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barbara Bell
Population of Japan and its territories stands at 418 million
The article states Japan and its held lands contain 418,000,000 people, comprising 19 percent of the world population. It emphasizes the large demographic share under Japanese control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Ask Me Another A General Quiz
The prompt presents a short, playful quiz title without readable article content. It appears as a game segment inviting casual trivia style questions and humorous prompts. The item resembles a radio or show card teaser for a general knowledge quiz segment.
Franklin statehood sought after union admission
Questions cover historical, civic, and scientific topics. They ask about Franklin’s statehood bid, the first Supreme Court bench size, shark brain anatomy, the department serving individuals, the candlefish name origin, garlic’s plant family, Hawaii’s territorial status and citizenship, and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address occasion.
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Franklin
Supreme Court
United States
Department of the Government
Hawaii
Lincoln
Dedication of a National Cemetery Reported
The document references the dedication of a national cemetery in 1900. It notes a post office department item and mentions a small oily fish used as a candle. It lists Tennessee and Lily as elements, with a description of sensory uses for a nose ears eyes skin and taste.
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Tennessee
Post Office Department
North Pacific
Lily
National Cemetery
Roosevelt descendants largest single family entries in Who's Who
The 20 direct descendants of Nicholas Roosevelt from 1658 to 1742 are noted as the largest single family line listed across 22 editions of Who's Who in America since 1899, including President Franklin D. Roosevelt among the descendants.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Nicholas Roosevelt
Home Handy Hints for Clean Homes and Tastier Salads
Practical tips for everyday care and upkeep include whitening piano keys with milk, preventing fruit salad browning with grapefruit juice, restoring rusty wire with enamel, concealing furniture scratches with walnut, improving poached eggs with vinegar, preserving doilies with wax paper, making a costume box for children, refreshing houseplants with a cool soap bath, and keeping rag rugs flat by starching ends.
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Hodde
Cleopatra
Virginia van Upp
Hollywood
Irving Cummings
Jean Arthur
Lee Bowman
Irene Dunne
Charles Boyer
Charles Coburn
Susan Hayward
Paramount
Susan
The
Hairy Ape
Ann Sheridan
Nancy Coleman
Maureen O’hara
Dinah Shore
Billie Burke
Flo Ziegfeld
Sarah
Buddy de Sylva
Leo McCarey
Mary
Buddy
George White
White
Leo
George
Adolf
Hitler
Stillwell
Uncle Joe
Federal Council of
Berne
Switzerland
Wilson
Lana Turner
Mrs. Wilson
OPA
New York
Mr. Wooley
America
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
South Wells St
Chicago
McKesson & Robbins Inc
Bridgeport
Connecticut
Roosevelt
St. Joseph
Fred Mers
Sam
Atlante
Fred Palmer
Bfgoodrich
Kellogg’s
Kes
Roween -Gay
Ben- Gay
Fartless
NEW Press
Fifth Avenue New York
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