Jacoby on Bridge offers many tournament tips
Bridge column highlights a tourney setting with strategic tips. Provides guidance on opening leads and counting tricks. Emphasizes careful defense, communication, and planning for high stakes play across multiple hands.
Canasta Notes from World Championship Match 1954
Oswald Jacoby reviews a World Championship 1954 hand from Monte Carlo, detailing bidding choices by Karl Schneider and Besse, plus a lesson on when to finesse or draw trumps in a slam. Alfred Sheinwold expands on setback canasta strategy, weighing meld out versus continuation and scoring swings from red threes and canastas.
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Cleaning furnace pays dividends for home upkeep
A clean warm air heating system with clean filters and ducts reduces cleaning and redecorating costs. Periodic furnace cleaning prevents corrosion, aids safety, and can reveal defects. For heating help contact Mr Hartman at Monument 21122. Weil Brothers, Frederick, publish this public service notice.
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Postwar gains outpace earlier farm yield growth study
A Twentieth Century Fund study finds that yields per acre on American farms rose more in the postwar era than in the six decades before, signaling a major productive surge tied to modern practices and tech adoption.
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Word Study and Common Misuses for Readers
In the News Frederick edition dated June 28 1954 a language note urges proper usage of prepositions at sentence end and flags mispronunciations and misspellings. It defines indefatigable as the opposite of easily fatigued and invites readers to use the word three times to make it theirs.
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