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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1946
Page
6
A collage of anecdotes and opinions from a wartime social column. The piece tags Mrs Roosevelt dwarfs others in a photo, recalls Queen Wilhelmina at West Point, notes a band miscue for her entrance, and discusses editors, OPA debates, Tarkington versus North, Gandhi travels, and atom bomb forecasts.
The article frames the OPA issue as a clash between keeping consumer prices stable and protecting people from rising costs. It explores policy choices and potential impacts on households and markets.
The Funnies team Alex Woollcott and Heywood Broun walked out on a new flop one night. Alex bent to pick up a fallen flower from a bouquet on stage. Broun teased it was bad luck to take flowers from a grave. Percy Hammond critiqued the big show as a historic stage fright moment.
Somerset Maugham says a writer uses items from newspapers street encounters and stories heard anywhere. He notes that reality or fancy are not created from whole cloth but ground into stories or plays as a columnist does daily.
Gene Fowler told Irving Berlin, You are one of the very few immortals who is still mortal. The quip highlights Berlin's enduring career and Fowler's playful praise within a shared literary scene.
A collage of quotations from O Henry Beth Brown Phil Baker Mark Twain Ben Hecht Olive Schreiner and others. It also mentions The Times Berlin newsboy Ray Daniels and Will Rogers at a political dinner with remarks on bigotry and national needs.
Retiring United States Chamber of Commerce president Johnston urges a progressive, consumer‑oriented capitalism. He rejects monopolistic power, favors intense regulation, worker profit sharing, and broader diffusion of wealth to build a thriving middle class.
In Baton Rouge Louisiana 4 H clubs pursue a wildlife project teaching trapping fur curing fishing and bird study. Initiated four years ago by W E Simmons the program engages marshland youth from trapping communities and builds markets for musk glands meat and cured furs while promoting wildlife preservation.
Stevenson Washington reports over 9 million Douglas fir and ponderosa pine trees produced at Hemlock nursery are distributed for replanting across the Northwest. More than 58 thousand fir trees went to Olympic National Forest. About 3 million trees are replanted annually, with wartime gaps when labor was scarce. Seed is gathered from forests each year for nursery growth.
Bemidji plans a new fairGround site with surrounding residential development and a revolving fund to recover costs. County officials finance major costs from property sale receipts for a new fair ground, an expanded airport of 1 350 acres may link to Twin Cities Alaska air route, and Jaycees lake shore project adds water sports, a breakwater and seaplane rides. The town preserves Paul Bunyan and Babe statues as iconic images.
In Vancouver Washington Justice of the Peace Paul Elwell names ten dollars for contempt after attorney Booth McAbee argues. McAbee retorts that the amount would not express his contempt, and the judge raises the fine to fifty dollars before the attorney remains silent.
The 16 100 pm show place La Casa Abierta in Palo Alto built by Kathleen Norris and her husband Charles Norris has been sold to Columbus Ohio man C L Cummings. The mansion hosted Woollcott and the Norris family croquet battles and served as a gathering place for the Norris and Thompson clans.
A barn near Sante Fe was set ablaze and state police pursued the arsonist with bloodhounds. The culprit reportedly sprinkled red pepper to mislead the tracking dogs.
Mrs Ray Pickett formerly Georgette Horts of Belgium arrived to join her husband, a former G I, and encountered frame houses for the first time. She notes Belgians brick homes locally rare and shares impressions of American food, corn, hot bread, corn bread and biscuits, and delight in American women’s clothes and shoes.
The Washington Bureau editor outlines a weekly veteran and family problems column. Readers may address questions to the Bureau and discuss them in a forthcoming issue. No direct mail replies are made.
President Truman signed a law providing options for returning and burying American war dead. Families may have remains shipped to the United States for national cemetery interment or buried by next of kin abroad with government costs. a permanent overseas American cemetery is also possible. First shipments are delayed due to casket shortages. 356 overseas temporary cemeteries are being verified.
Pattern No 1359 comes in sizes 4 36 38 40 42 44 46 and 48. Size 36 requires 3% yards of 35 or 39 inch awaid yards lace and 3 yard ribbon for bow.
Collier's describes Nazi Germany maintaining a tight system of citizen oversight with a precinct level register of all residents and daily activity notes. Hotels and hospitals filed detailed guest and patient reports, and individuals carried a Certificate of Conduct indicating police records.
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