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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1937
Page
7
A home buyer recounts settling in a run down suburban house bought for a $700 mortgage. Readers offer color and furnishing ideas from gray walls to yellow draperies, plus slip covers for mohair furniture. Mrs Dickson describes restoring her 1823 25 brick house with nineteenth century pieces and Victorian touches.
Jack Benny's New York broadcasts draw huge crowds at the Waldorf Astoria. Luise Rainer and Paul Muni win and plan careers, while Walt Disney again tops the year. Bergen joins Goldwyn Follies, Vera Zorina signs in London, Jane Withers faces guards and a Beverly Hills alarm, all as Hollywood’s awards season heats up.
Answers cover relatives and figures from history and geography. Uncle, Theodore Roosevelt, China, a thick rich soup, Augustus Caesar, Robert Bruce, the pirates flag, fractional paper money, without life, Lake Constance on Switzerland Germany border, two a.m. next day, King Edward VI crowned February 20, 1547.
In Hingham Massachusetts the Old Ship Meeting House is cited as the oldest U S church built in 1681 and used for worship since. The wooden structure features a lookout belfry weather vane and a plain interior with backless benches.
The Highlands and Agricultural Society of Scotland formed in 1783 to hold farm shows in multiple Scottish towns marking the origin of organized agricultural exhibitions.
The text argues that basic needs are simple and many expenditures go to luxuries. It notes that wealth in a period of prosperity bred privileges and possessions not previously enjoyed, and that denial of these now reveals their excess. It emphasizes budgeting and reassessing spendings on nonessential items.
Archie San Romani of Kansas State Teachers College, noted for beating Jack Lovelock and Glenn Cunningham in the 1936 mile of the century at Princeton, values music over track. He plans to teach music after earning his degree this spring and is shown with a cornet.
A Western Newspaper Union column argues basic human needs bread water light cannot be sacrificed for wealth. It contrasts modern excess with forefathers' fortitude, urging a return to appreciation of essentials and mental courage amid hardship.
Advice on filling cracks with paraffin after cooling, cooking greens without salt to preserve color, reseeding bare lawn spots in spring, sowing grass in April, olive oil and vinegar polish for mahogany, and making colored butters with pimiento watercress and lemon rind. from Associated Newspapers WNU Service.
Janet Gaynor flees Hollywood for a New York vacation and vows to stay away until she can appear in a comedy. Skippy the terrier from The Thin Man has a major role in China Passage. Joan Crawford debuts bead bracelet fashion to match her dresses. Sonja Henie cuts her tour to return to Hollywood for films. Bobby Breen to star in The Singing Kid radio serial. Paramount plans a Sunday studio showcase program. Western Newspaper Union.
A reflective couplet about unshakable gloom and the absence of light. The speaker laments storms and dreary hours, asserting there is no failure except giving up and that hope persists despite darkness.
An advertisement targets sufferers of gas and bloating, blaming long standing constipation and harmful bacteria. It asserts Adlerika cleanses both upper and lower bowels, relieves gas without gripping, and is non habit forming, available at leading druggists.
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