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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1943
Page
3
Practical advice on painting exterior fire escape platforms, painting oil burners, soundproofing doors, removing varnish from linoleum, sealing dry wells, and identifying worm holes in woodwork. Includes methods, cautions, and basic home maintenance steps with cleaning and drying timelines.
War shortages push scientists to promote fertilized ponds as underwater gardens. Algae feed microscopic life which supports tiny water insects and fish, yielding 200 to 400 pounds per watery acre annually. Home ponds require simple tools, with no labor problem and potential to boost U S fish supply through farm and ranch pond projects.
When at home or a friend's house, rise when an older woman enters and offer her the best chair. In public transit, give your seat to an older woman willingly, not half-heartedly.
A playful family event idea announces a Looking Glass Land party with Red Queen and White Queen invitations. Activities include a signatures game, White Knight Bean Guess, and Wonderland Flower Garden with rotating seating, followed by a buffet lunch. Released by Western Newspaper Union.
Sergeant Hugh Brodie of the Royal Australian Air Force wrote a poem acclaimed by many. The piece, titled The Airman's Prayer, expresses a plea for divine presence in death and acceptance of fate, noting the sergeant is listed missing in action.
United States Marines boast superior chow with menus from Parris Island and Quantico illustrating meals designed to meet vitamin and calorie needs. The daily fare varies by climate but maintains uniform quality, ensuring Marines abroad eat as well as those at home.
Cairo report details how British intelligence predicted German gear changes like the Mark VI, enabling Allied defenses. The first Mark IV tank fall was pursued to Suez despite German bombing. Maj. Davis Evans led a crew to lift the tank onto a barge and reach shore safely.
The note urges readers to keep lipstick cases jars boxes and beauty containers as metal cases may disappear with future shortages. It predicts buying creams by the ounce and says only refills will be sold for metal lipstick cases.
Corporal Joshua Williamson of Camp Pickett clears six feet six and three eighths inches to win the high jump at the University of Pennsylvania relay games held at Franklin Field Philadelphia. His prior record stood at six feet five inches set at the National AAU meet in Trenton New Jersey on July 11 1942.
Swedish runner Gunder Haag boards a tanker in Gothenburg for a debut in the United States to face Greg Rice and America's best distance men. Haag, holder of five world records, says he will race wherever the AAU and war relief efforts benefit.
The major league fielding mark for first basemen is a .999 average set by John McInnis for 152 games with the Boston Red Sox in 1921. Illinois under Doug Mills has 61 wins and 26 losses for a .701 Big Ten record. In 1942 there were 116 doubleheaders ending tied and 123 double wins by one side.
The solid part of the earth is called the mantle. General clearing Blood and Guts refers to General George S. Patton. One third of U S Senators are elected every two years. A bar carole is a light song. Plexis is a misprint. likely plexus or plexiform. Carte blanche means full discretionary power. The first U S president born under the flag was Barack Obama. Liquor from sugar cane is rum.
George S Patton Jr receives full powers in a discussion touching lithosphere one third of a subject and a boat song while reference is made to a network of blood vessels or nerves and to Martin Van Buren in a setting about rum.
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