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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Herald
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1940
Page
3
The Herald reports a huge surge in demand for complimentary Christmas gift sets. The paper wired the pen company to meet late orders as supply struggles to keep pace with unprecedented holiday buying.
The Herald offers free gift sets with subscriptions and a paid mail option for five cents to any US address. Readers visit the Herald office for displays in St John New Brunswick to obtain sets, with a replacement guarantee and wrapping service. The piece also notes Benedict Arnold’s residence in St John and Fredericton details.
A vintage recipe note extols perfect pie crusts using fine ingredients and proper technique. It highlights electric ranges for even baking, preheating, and consistent heat, and shares tips for blueberry pies and keeping pastry fresh, with hints on flavor boosters and preventing spills.
At the American Philosophical Society meeting in Philadelphia scientists described an RCA developed electron microscope by Dr Vladimir Zworykin that magnifies up to 100000 times. The device uses electrons instead of light and already showed streptococci in chains and how threadlike growths connect organisms.
Negro school children prepare for tuberculin skin tests to detect tuberculosis. Christmas Seals enable tuberculosis associations to continue health activities throughout the year.
The passage catalogs varied pronunciations for place names and terms across regions, noting how locals say Quebec Wisconsin Egypt Illinois Pennsylvania San Jose San Francisco Santa Clara County Terre Haute Vigo County and Wabash settlement. It plays with phonetic quirks and historical spellings in a humorous, observational tone.
In western Alaska Kodiak grows as census shows population up. chamber official cites squatters owning land near city limits hindering expansion. The town, busy with U S naval base construction, faces growth constraints amid rapid development. Firearms mortality statistics note 1.2 male deaths per million vs 0.2 female deaths.
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