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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1936
Page
7
A humorous weekly nut story from Mark Hellinger in The New York American features a frantic customer shouting for a haircut and insisting on standing, provoking light banter with the barber about seating and speed.
A humorous exchange notes the maid telling that the master is in the cellar while the coalman laments filling 44 bags of coal, but today could only pack in 43. The line captures a playful domestic moment from the Montreal Star.
A Chesterton Tribune excerpt discusses the notion of returning good for evil. The exchange features characters His Logic Teacher Robert and Bobby debating timing and virtue in life’s challenges.
Hollywood notes celebrate Lionel Barrymore’s Christmas Carol broadcast and CBS five year deal while Sid Jordan and Joel McCrea draw attention for on screen and off set antics. Updates on Fred Allen turning back to radio Town Hall Tonight, Grace Moore adoption hopes, Anna May Wong’s language shift, and Leslie Howard Hamlet debate. Autograph hunter frenzy worries stars and families, plus contract moves for Slim Summerville and Joan Crawford Clark Gable in Love on the Run.
A vintage recipe advertisement from Mrs. W. D. Cook of Atlanta Georgia for orange pecan waffles. Instructions include mixing flour salt sugar baking powder and melted shortening with eggs milk and orange marmalade then folding in chopped pecans and cooking on a waffle iron. A serving suggestion pairs waffles with Orange Fluff made by whipping cream with sugar and marmalade.
The article chronicles how Congress altered the Supreme Court’s size six times from 1789 to 1869. Key actions occurred in 1807 adding one seat to seven, 1837 adding two to nine, 1863 raising to ten, and 1869 restoring to nine after a 1866 moratorium. It notes motivations for assignments and political clashes with presidents.
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