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Newspaper
Osceola Record
Location
Osceola, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1942
Page
6
A Western Newspaper Union piece praises The Major and the Minor as delightful and diverting. Ginger Rogers delivers a standout performance as a girl in disguise on a train with Ray Milland co starring. The review notes strong cast work and fun value for wartime audiences.
Olivia de Havilland learns to play saxophone bringing a shiny instrument to her dressing room and tooting between scenes of The Princess O Rourke. She even played Happy Birthday for the sound stage doorman and offered three cigars.
Clark Gable has shed 27 pounds since enlisting. Celebrities conserve tires by grouping to Hollywood events in station wagons. They rush work on The Immortal Sergeant so Henry Fonda can report to the navy. Martha Scott’s New York trip to Stage Door Canteen leads Carlton Alsop to a permanent NBC directing post on Abie’s Irish Rose. Humphrey Bogart reportedly receives 50 letters weekly from people who profess to hate him.
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1590-B for sizes 34 through 48 uses 412 yards of 39 inch material for size 36 with short sleeves. The Frock for Work features a rever collar straight sleeves front button closing and optional belt pockets. Pattern No. 1603-B sizes 14 to 42 requires 414 yards for size 16 with long or short sleeves. Send your order to
Still at it, a customer and a taxicab driver clash over a fare. The man exclaims, I haven't ridden cabs for ten years for nothing. The driver retorts, No, but I’ll bet you’ve been trying.
A student asks what you are doing at the university and receives a brief reply about taking medicine. The exchange notes improved well-being as the person reports feeling better after treatment.
A quip portrays a man claiming dominance over household chores including lawn care, laundry, vacuuming, and errands. The remark highlights traditional gendered expectations and domestic labor division with humor.
The quarrel escalates as the wife berates her husband for his perceived foolishness while friends are present. He remains silent and withdrawn as she orders him to stop clenching his fists in his pockets.
Pattern request from the Sewing Circle Pattern Dept asks readers in Chicago to enclose 20 cents in coins for each pattern desired. Includes room and address at 211 West Wacker Dr. Chicago and notes Room 1116.
American Red Cross clubs in overseas theaters welcome service men and UN personnel with American foods like hotdogs and hamburgers at nominal prices. The Washington club in London offers lounges, a dance room, recreation space, a 600-seat restaurant and dormitories for 1200, with bed and breakfast for 50 cents and meals at 20 cents. Red Cross funds cover deficits, and a Leave Information bureau helps servicemen plan activities while many seek conversations with American staff.
Colliers notes that Native Americans bent saplings with rawhide to mark trails. Today hundreds of these trees survive, the main trunks bent at a right angle about three to four feet above ground, notably across the Middle West where some stand within 200 feet of each other.
Ruth Wyeth Spears shares a home craft idea to refresh a couch with 9% yards of 36 inch cotton twill in soft tan to match décor. Seams use a second stitch, top edge sewn to the pad with carpet thread, and cushions gain shape from newspapers bound by muslin and cotton batting for a neat, lasting cover.
A woman visits a fortune teller who proclaims she will be very happy and meet a nobler man than her husband. The dramatic reaction follows as the reader awaits the promised “but when” moment.
On October 8, 1918 Sergt Alvin York singlehandedly killed 20 and captured 132 Germans in the Battle of the Argonne. The same day Private Joseph Oklahombi, a full blood Choctaw Indian, captured 171 Germans near Saint Etienne, France.
Report notes births occurring 65 days before and 50 days after full term, stressing a wide range in healthy infant timing. The analysis points to nearly four months between these extreme cases, underscoring variability in gestation lengths.
A brief list presents ten cryptic prompts including a costly achievement, GOP dissent in 1884, Lacrymore, the number twenty six, Iraq, a millionfold extent, a slaughter house, subterranean, the ribs, and a year of 1837.
About 40 years ago Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia ordered three electric chairs from America after learning electrocution was modern. Two chairs could not be used in Addis Ababa due to lack of electricity, so one was kept as a royal throne for years.
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