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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1939
Page
5
Classified ad notes Columbia Feather Company at 175 East Avenue Chicago buys new goose and duck feathers for cash at the highest price.
Dr. David Jebb travels aboard the Nord Express bound for America with five year old Cynthia Thatcher as his ward. He confronts his overpowering desire for liquor while en route and contends with a distraction from a former classmate Big Bill Gaines. A minor accident follows a stop as a fellow passenger offers a drink that intensifies the urge.
Cynthia pleads for a story as Jebb recalls Sindbad the sailor and a bottle genie. They wander Cologne's Dom Hotel and cathedral area, face thirst and temptation, while a child clings to Nunkie Dave and Jebb improvises through a travel mishap toward Ostend with a wary, emboldened bravado.
A dreamlike sequence places Jebb waking in a room with Persian rugs and a wall platform. He recalls a sunrise minaret and Islamic calls as he infers Japan and Persia in turn, before a door reveals a glinting, skull-like face. The scene ends with a note that it continues.
The Sewing Circle offers pattern 6475 to sew Dutch dolls and their clothes in two pieces with a head band. Includes directions and materials. Send 15 cents, name, address, and pattern number to The Sewing Circle, Household Arts Dept., 249 W 14th St, New York.
The article discusses how sandpaper has evolved into a highly varied and essential industrial tool. It notes 3000 coated abrasive varieties, advances in uniform distribution of abrasive particles, and the vast daily output used across sectors from furniture to machinery.
A collage of odd comparisons cites salary gaps between a New York yacht captain and the queen Mary master, Harlem hall manager and Pennsylvania governor, and a 1938 musicians’ union head vs Roosevelt. It notes antiques are mainly fakes and European plant employment surpassed by Detroit’s large accounts firm. Fortunes in these lines reveal curious social contrasts and superstitions.
Trivia list with eight questions about US flag timing animal brain water flow tides and more. Includes: when a state enters union star added, largest brain relative size ant, instrument differences bugle cornet trumpet, Niagara flow 67 000 tons per minute, permanent versus perpetual, flag stripe count seven red six white, high tides twice weekly, heuristic origin Greek heuretikos and definition encouraging student discovery.
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