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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1938
Page
7
How to host balloon games at a party with balloon juggle and balloon basketball. Balloon juggle uses milk bottles as targets where players race to cover distance without popping their balloon. Balloon basketball sets two goals with a wastebasket at each end and teams bat a balloon toward the opponent’s basket.
In a Green Forest brush pile Peter Rabbit hides from Reddy Fox Granny Fox and Old Man Coyote with Redtail Hawk circling above. Old Man Coyote uses diplomacy to avert a fight and proposes a plan to capture Peter for dinner, uniting the rivals briefly before the plan forms.
Mrs. Martin buys a pair of brown and rust chenille bedspreads to brighten a cream room. She reworks walls with pale greens, adds a woodsy rug, brown linen curtains, and a slipcovered chair with chenille bands. Brass accents and DIY hooked pillow complete the calm, masculine look.
The article traces William O. Douglas from Maine Minnesota to Yakima Washington and Whitman College. It notes his rare stock market trade in 1926, his law studies at Columbia, and rapid rise from private practice to Columbia faculty and government appointment last November. It also mentions Wall Street's suspicion of his reform proposals.
Lyman E. Cook catalogued more than 2,000 arcane laws from various states. Highlights include South Carolina gun church rules, Nebraska barber onion hours, Maryland six visits as a marriage proxy, and a French 1839 murder misidentity case.
News from Variety notes Broadway managers consider 9 30 or 10 o'clock curtains to cut intermissions and streamline shows. Causes cited include late dining and traffic jams as the East Side dining scene clashes with West Side theaters.
All eyes on this knitted two piecer featuring a sunburst yoke in stockinette with lace details. Use a round needle to avoid seams and wear with or without the matching skirt. Pattern 5601 provides blouse and skirt in sizes 16 18 and 38 40 with yarn suggestions and stitch illustrations. Send 15 cents to The Sewing Circle at 259 W 14th St New York for pattern.
Dr. Dorothy Wolff at Washington University School of Medicine leads a study on organs of balance in pigeons cats rabbits and Japanese waltzing mice. Normal pigeons were filmed then altered ear function was induced and resequenced to compare head bobbing with human inner ear disease.
Milwaukee man John M. Horan died a few weeks after his 100th birthday ending 83 years of continuous work for the Milwaukee railroad. He left no debts and only about a thousand dollars in assets, mostly cash and a small personal property, earned as a boiler washer inspector since age seventeen.
Dan Vogel, a Nebraskan farmer, crafted a home built tractor using a car radiator from one vehicle a motor from another and a third vehicle’s rear end He claims a top speed of 20 miles per hour.
In Calcutta entomologists estimate insects cause more than 1.5 million human deaths and damage totaling 750 million dollars annually in India. Mohamed Afza Hussain, addressing the Science Congress, says India may host at least 2.5 million insect species, with only about 40,000 studied.
A promotional note extols Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy for female discomforts. It urges women to buy from a local druggist, claiming over a million positive letters and linking cheerfulness to health.
A brief quotation encourages self reflection by noting that if you see fault in others you should consider two of your own and avoid a third hasty judgment. The line is attributed to Flamner and appears as a reflective motto.
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