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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1941
Page
3
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The passage quotes Abraham Lincoln’s sharp response to a business inquiry about a man he knew. He notes the man has a wife and baby worth $500,000 to any man, an office with a $1.50 table and three chairs worth about $1, and a corner rat-hole worth inspection.
A noted author argues that a man’s books reflect his personality and social origin, suggesting reading choices indicate character and class. The remark implies reading habits chart life station and personal identity.
A column reflects on attic memories stored over generations and the dilemma of discarding keepsakes. It then reports Secretary Morgenthau's push for higher taxes and payroll at source to illuminate government costs. Washington warns on paper use as 1942 envelo pes rise, while English hair curlers stave war shortages with cheaper imports.
Virginia Vale notes Shirley Temple’s good health as she nears 13 and headlines a UK Ministry of Food campaign. Walt Disney created three carrot characters Doctor Carrot Clara Carrot and Carroty George to urge English families to eat more carrots, a move praised as cost saving for studios.
James W. Barrett recalls Joseph Pulitzer as a statesman writer who aimed to inform and mold public opinion beyond profits. The piece highlights Pulitzer’s relentless questions, absorbent curiosity, and the drive to steer America toward progress amid a lively, satirical column.
Young women workers in the nation’s capital are to be glorified on screen. Paramount plans Washington Escapade, while Metro buys White House Girl by Ruth Finney, wife of a newspaper man, as film material.
Universal plans a new film adaptation of Rex Beach's The Spoilers starring Randolph Scott and John Wayne as the lead heroes with Marlene Dietrich as the heroine in a he man style production following earlier versions by Farnum Sandhey and Gary Cooper.
RKO advances Valley of the Sun with native language scenes as producer Graham Baker uses phonograph records recorded first in English then in Apache. Cast includes James Craig Antonio Moreno Tom Tyler and others as Caro Lee leads child roles.
Elizabeth Bergner, renowned European actress, completes her first Hollywood film Paris Calling about the betrayal and fall of France. Her European titles include Catherine the Great Escape Me Never and Dreaming Lips.
Frances Robinson, once a child actress in Orphans of the Storm aged four as Lillian Gish, later appeared in Smiling Through. She has now left pictures for radio and appears as the gid dy debutante in the air version of My Man Godfrey.
A 19 year old girl in Alexandria assists her mother Jane Crusinberry writer of The Story of Mary Marlin by gathering background material for a murder trial. The young reporter uses a candid camera and notebook to aid the production during the dramatized trial setting.
Bob Hope spends much time on personal appearances leaving his kids unsure who he is. Jean Arthur Cary Grant and Ronald Colman lead Columbia’s Mr Twilight. Phillipe de Lacey now produces for March of Time. Alice Faye plays Helen Morgan in a singer biopic. Sonja Henie may appear running a nightclub in her Fox film though Iceland has none.
The reader questions why the Supreme Court building is called the Mausoleum and whether photography aids British censors more than Hollywood. It asks if photostats could be mailed to friends while originals stay with the government and questions which Canadian official, who ties wage cuts to victory, will soon be promoted.
A collage of satirical questions mocks wartime power figures. It jokes about General staff stress, ambassadors, cabinet volunteers, secretaries, and officials like Jesse Jones and Ickes. The piece pokes at liberal labels and Pacific Fleet opinions, plus foreign bond inquiries and American birthright boasting.
Gossip column notes sightings of U boats off New England shores and a Red Cross nurse Hazel French cited as a Powers Pretty-Pretty Plantation model. It taunts rumors of refugee racket scandal and alleged ties between Met Opera star and Nazi figures.
The column notes Chicago villas once imported into Philadelphia and New York to aid circulation wars are now being recruited for action in Chicago. It mocks a Broadway figure who evaded many charges yet served none, now jailed for a floating crap game and hopes Japan sides with the Fleet-minded American Navy over the Italian Army.
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The war department spent large sums to guard presidents graves until mausoleums were completed. A military guard of one officer and 25 enlisted men watched the temporary tomb of the late President Harding for nearly five years at a cost close to 135000 dollars, says Collier s.
Simple kitchen and home care advice covers cleaning burnt pans with soda and cold water, tenderizing meat and vegetables with a baking powder solution, washing walls before repainting to save paint, and safeguarding silverware from rubber damage by avoiding rubber items and using cords to bundle pieces.
A set of practical kitchen hints covers washing knitted bedspreads drying on a sheet, cooking potatoes in jackets to preserve nutrition, adding sugar after cooking for apples, and making animal shaped toast toppers for soup. Leftover potatoes are shaped into small cases or flat cakes to serve with meats fish or vegetables.
A few years ago Fiorello LaGuardia spoke to Salvation Army workers and gave a fiery endorsement of the group. At the end the mayor searched his pockets for money, unable to find any, prompting the Army commissioner to declare that the Salvation Army is the right place to come when a man has no nickel.
A vivid cultural comparison notes that in China south points to the compass, men wear skirts and women wear trousers, and dress makers are men while women bear burdens. It observes language differences, reversed reading, top footnotes, mourning white, aged bridesmaids, and surnames first. It also mentions self-shaking hands, and sideways vessel launches with horses mounted from the off side.
A sunlit tropical scene shows a person’s shadow over a crude oil pool. The shadow cools the surface slightly, reducing bubble rise and darkening the oil for up to ten seconds after the person leaves.
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