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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1936
Page
3
A fire on a wooden stairway and a burning tank trapped Mike forty five feet above ground. He closed five trap doors to vent gases, swung along tank braces, and slid down a six inch pipe to safety as onlookers cheered. He lost skin and pants but survived with a wire service photo.
The article catalogues myths from Chinese, Norse, Greek, and Greenland cultures linking solar eclipses to disasters. It notes dragons swallowing the sun in myth, chariotized sun in Greek lore, and peoples making noise to frighten away the devouring monster. It cites a 2158 B C note in China and Amos foretelling Nineveh’s eclipse in 763 B C.
Florence Eldridge, wife of Fredric March, discusses securing Queen Elizabeth in Mary of Scotland. Gertrude Michael gains top prospects after switching to RKO. Brilhart Chapman, dancer with the Boston Symphony, signs with Grand National. Lily Pons resists film work as John McCormack appears in Wings of the Morning in Technicolor. Football broadcasts expand coastwide with 36 stations, Don Wilson and Ted Hammerstein featured. ODDS AND ENDS note Norma Shearer praised, Marlene Dietrich balks at Germany, Donald O’Dodds strikes, Bette Davis exits Gods Country and the Woman.
Cartoonish ad describing a cross stitch pillow motif titled Portrait of Kittens. It promotes a stitchery transfer pattern, size 13 by 14 inches, with color chart and stitch illustrations. Readers are asked to mail 1 cent for pattern 5604 to The Sewing Department in New York.
A witty exchange features lines about pain and humor as a character recites a joke about barking shins and howling. A spendthrift contrasts with a miser over the nature of money, arguing money is fat and meant to be spent, while the miser's view emphasizes restraint.
A brief note questions the purpose of hurry training and links the race to catching a train, reflecting a humorous or instructional moment in Pearson's Weekly.
An adventurous life described by a sailor who had a past operation. He recounts a doctor leaving a sponge inside him and his stoic reply. He says the sponge remains, noting no pain but constant intense thirst.
A playful exchange between Mrs Raysun and Henry Raysun centers on porch temperatures rising from 98 to 107 degrees as stock quotes appear. He replies with dry humor and agrees to sell when the temperature hits 110 degrees, reflecting a humorous stock market mood in the New York Sun.
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