Cap in the V I A WIA W IN Service story by Arthur Stringer
Carol Coburn, Alaska born, teaches Indian aboard ship and is rescued by Sidney Lander. After a fire destroys her home, she joins a special train to Mata nuska and faces uncertain future. Doctor Ruddock arranges a school post and Lander plans to keep fighting for justice amid shifting development interests.
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BMW
Arthur Stringer
Carol Coburn
Erin
the Red
New Teacher Meets Frontier Absence of School House
A new teacher arrives in a remote Alaskan valley and learns no school exists this winter. An elder warns she must travel to homesteads to teach, lacking a building and roof, and suggests staying in the Jansen shack or Eckstrom farm while government plans labor on a new school.
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Tokluta
Territorial
Wasilla
Juneau
Eckstrom
Mr. Bryson
Sock-Eye Schlupp
Blondike Coburn
Busy Washington day with cotton stocking designs and prize song
Eleanor Roosevelt covers a Washington press conference where Dr Louise Stanley of the USDA shows cotton stocking samples and practical work clothes for housewives and workers. At noon Mr William Dillon wins a national song contest prize, while others discuss training youth, wartime education, and naval station recreation in Pensacola and Astoria.
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Washington
Louise Stanley
Bureau of Home Economics
Department of Agriculture
Dana Backus
William A. Dillon
Ithaca
N. Y
Committee
America
Dillon
Duke of Kent
Louis Greig
Deep cold and ruined school drive Alaska journey
The narrator recalls understanding the deep cold before heading to Matanuska. Midwinter snows bury the ruins of a lost school while Alaska’s railway line is blocked by storms and avalanches for over a week. Katie helps improve a worn wardrobe with a wool sweater.
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Matanuska
Alaska
Katie
Hollywood notes and upcoming film plans travel page
Virginia Vale reports on stars and promotions including Charles Boyer touring with a miniature Paris exhibit to aid war relief, Kathryn Grayson and Hedy Lamarr projects, Walt Disney shorts reconsiderations, Veronica Lake in Sullivan's Travels, and Lewis Stone taking a break from Judge Hardy to act in Steel Cavalry with Beery.
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Colleen Moore
Charles Boyer
Paris
Lewis Stone
Judge Hardy
Family
Steel Cavalery
Wallace Beery Picsure
Charles Laughton Inn Keeper Anecdote Lovingly Recalled
A past tale notes Charles Laughton Sr planned him as an inn keeper at Claridge's in London to learn the hotel trade. The younger Laughton supposedly learned one trait by impressing a haughty waiter with water and a poached egg on toast, a trick that rarely fails when champagne is pushed.
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Charles Laughton
Him
Milton Berley
Laughton, Sr
Charlies
Clardge's
London
Public School Lessons Include Warner Brothers Shorts
New York City's public school students will receive a curricular segment featuring Warner Brothers national defense and historical shorts. The program aims to make lessons engaging and informative for pupils across grades.
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New York City
Warner Brothers
National Defense
Odds and Ends Highlights and Cast Changes
Reymond Gram Swing bought a 250 acre farm halfway up Putney Mountain in Vermont. Young Bob Hope imitated Charlie Chaplin at church socials. Paramount’s Air Raid follows adventure, love, and murder during a practice blackout in an American city. Richard Wharf, who replaced John Garud in Warners Bridges Builds at Night, has been replaced by Craig Stevens. Andy Devine joins radio’s Al Pearce and His Gang in October.
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Reymond Gram
Putney Mountain
Vermont
Bob Hope
Charlie Chaplin
Paramount
Richard Wharf
John Garud
Warners
Bridges Buils
Craig Stevens
Andy Devine
al Pearce
Exhaustion as a Cause of Pneumonia in 1919 Film
Dr. James W. Barton reviews a movie showing why most pneumonia cases recover with 98 percent survival, but fatigue and heart weakness after influenza 1918 19 hinder recovery. He notes nursing stress and poor rest lower resistance, stressing prevention through rest and nourishing food to prevent pneumonia following flu.
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James W. Barton
Union
Blood Transfusions Now Safe Routine
Drs. Noah Fabricant and Leo M Zimmerman note modern typing and preservation methods reduce risks in transfusion. Four blood types known, tests classify types. Blood Transfusion Betterment association formed in 1929 coordinates testing and donor registration for ready banks of blood by type to save time.
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Noah Fabricant
Leo M. Zimmerman
Chicago
Blood Transfusion Betterment Association
Department of Health
Wassermann
Question Box on Chest Pain and Belching Clue
The question asks which organ is affected by painful distress beneath the breast bone with belching. The answer declines diagnosis and mentions belching often results from a sluggish condition, with a note about using X-rays to locate the caves.
Origin of Trouble Quote by Van Amburgh
A quoted aphorism suggests most world trouble is self made and personal quarrels arise from within. It notes that focusing on worthwhile thoughts reveals the presence of a good man. The piece presents a reflective, moral view attributed to Van Amburgh.
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van Amburgh
Growth in Silence Delivers Great Emergence into Life
A quotation attributed to Carlyle on the theme that quiet development shapes grand outcomes. It emphasizes patience and the gradual formation of ideas until they rise to influence and splendor in life.
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Carlyle
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