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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1936
Page
3
Trade chatter suggests Paramount and RKO may merge, promising upheaval in Hollywood. Olivia de Havilland tightens earnings in a trust and heads to Saratoga, while audiences anticipate Show Boat and new historical shorts. Anna Sten returns from Europe with no new project yet. Theda Bara seeks big pay as talks with studios continue.
Douglas Fairbanks Jr contemplates retirement as Marco Polo talks fade. Fred Astaire opts for two films a year while Ginger Rogers pursues dramatic roles and acting talents. Harriet Hilliard heads to California for Count Pete, Sylvia Sidney shoots in England, Errol Flynn faces visa issues, James Cagney refrains from new films, Edna May Oliver enjoys a long overdue vacation. Western Newspaper Union.
A Connecticut visitor travels through California and encounters a giant cooperative egg, a pumpkin shell ferry, and a talking boat. The tale highlights California’s grand scale with humorous, myth-like anecdotes about oversized produce and unusual transport. The stranger learns locals joke about their crops and boats as practical marvels.
The story recalls Paul Bunyan founding a lumber camp on the Big Onion river. His pup Sport keeps rats in check and grows to hunt moose after training as a moose terrier. A misfired ax splits Sport in two, but he learns to run on two legs and cover moose trails, guiding Paul back to the moose's birthplace.
Sa bine County Reporter editor recalls a farmer in Hemphill Texas releasing a rattlesnake caught in a trap. The snake follows him home and becomes a pet until one night it traps a burglar, alerting police who arrest him.
A quirky remark from Uncle Eben compares a stubborn woe to his goat. The line hints at resilience amid obstacles as a thematic thread in a longer feature.
A satirical piece critiques political conventions and anti minority bias in Cleveland and Philadelphia, mocks ritual shouting, and warns against intolerance. It mentions Liberty League teas, Al Smith, and warns against vivisection while expressing anti cruelty views and support for science balanced with ethics.
Dr James Barton outlines three slimming methods and their risks. He cites laxatives that dehydrate and thin blood, drastic calorie cuts that waste muscle and nerve tissue, and thyroid or dinitrophenol use causing heart damage or death. He notes some small benefits from limited salt use and gradual food reduction under supervision.
Household tips cover kitchen prep cleaning and gardening hacks. From cinnamon toast to pie fruit handling, lemon juice grape drink, umbrella ribs as plant stakes, rose lattices on hinges for painting, leather mildew removal with petroleum, ironing with paraffin, and freezing juices as ice cubes. Includes note from Associated Newspapers WNU Service.
Prof Gerard Kuiper of Holland reports the discovery of a new double star observed at Lick Observatory California. The star has a revolution period of 20 months. It notes that among stars visible to the naked eye one in nine is a double star.
A fragment echoes Dickens on fruitless errands and fear, noting a day described as the zone of futility. The line hints at melancholy and futile effort without specifying events or persons.
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