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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1942
Page
3
Humorous items recount General MacArthur testing a bridge plan on Bataan and a quip about a film set. A catty actress visits the Now, Voyager set in Hollywood and teases Ilka Chase about her book.
The column riffs on Eddie Cantor Lou Holtz and Chico Marx gossiping about Ben Bernie’s $22 000 annual income and betting habits. It cites Variety noting three five week runs at Music Hall for Reap the Wild Wind alongside Snow White Rebecca Philadelphia Story and Woman of the Year. It ends with John Gunther quoting Washington officials calling the capital an insane asylum run by its inmates.
Propaganda piece extols wartime production as the American assembly line fuels defense financing and manned by workers driving enemy factories toward ruin. Notes 185000 fighters planes and calls plane output "fantastic" per Hitler. Includes a light aside about vaudeville gain.
Detective J Broderick, famed for courage against gangsters, feared appearing in a film about his career and refused MGM's $100000 offer to join cinema, preferring police service at $80 weekly. Chet Shaw now runs at Newsweek. The Purple Heart lapel ribbon marks a wartime wound, while Private Carl Laemmle Jr spends weekends at a swank 5th Avenue hotel on $21 a month.
Two million volunteer Red Cross workers drive a blood and plasma program begun in 1941 at the urging of military surgeons. Eighteen donor centers collect donations to be processed into dried plasma for armed forces, with ongoing need for volunteers and civilian emergency use. Donors give a few minutes of time. plasma ships daily to labs for processing.
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1541 B offers a miracle dress that trims pounds and improves posture with side pieces and shoulder yokes. The frock features a long straight line from neck to hem to flatter height, elbow covering sleeves, and suits cottons or silks. sizes 36 to 52 with 414 yards of 39 inch fabric for size 38 with short sleeves.
The article describes new window framing using gaily decorated boards beginning with blackout drills. It notes the design blocks light around edges and features patriotic blue, red, and white borders with a blue shelf for utensils. It mentions a future moon flight and Uranium 235 research but focuses on home decor details and a book offer.
Barbara Bell Pattern No 1570 B offers a complete play set for girls aged 1 to 6 including a frock with scalloped sleeves a matching bonnet and paired overalls for warm weather. The frock features a back opening braid trimming and pockets while the bonnet crown buttons in place and the set can be ironed flat for easy care. Sizes 1 2 3 4 5 and 6 are listed with material requirements and ordering details.
A reader challenges with six questions covering historical timelines, the nation’s oldest business house, neolithic traits, a geography land border query, a fancy term for magic, and telegraph terminology for the number 73.
The list presents six items including a Philadelphia company founded in 1687 and references to polished stone implements, Wisconsin, Thaumaturgy, and the word Regards.
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