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Newspaper
Panama City Pilot
Location
Panama City, Florida, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1939
Page
2
In West Palm Beach, Police Chief Robert W. Milburn faced criticism as he publicized a grafting case involving five officers linked to two robberies. The chief challenged usual cover ups by publicly revealing the investigation, contrasting with other cities where officials remove or silence offending officers.
In New York many speak of war as Europe’s drums beat, with Yorkville Italians, Polish residents in Travis Staten Island and German quarters weighing Axis loyalties and fears of anti German bias. Conversations show a city split between pride in America and concern over homeland crises.
The serialized novel Escape by Ethel Vance is published as a book. It follows Emmy Ritter, a German actress who returns to Germany to raise money and faces a treason trial. The reviewer notes strong prose with ironic touches, but calls the plot highly coincidental and flimsy, collapsing when read closely.
The British arrival in South Africa stirs Boer distrust and escalating hate, traced in Stuart Cloete’s Watch for the Dawn. A Boer heroine witnesses an execution as a friend shields her from the scene, while a dialogue on legacy and seeds of hatred unfolds across generations.
A readers quiz asks about respectful treatment of servants and proper forms of address. Answers indicate fair references for leaving staff, addressing a 16 year old girl, acknowledging a servant at a friend’s house, courtesy to hotel staff, and correct form for calling a porter when name is unknown.
The Family Doctor reports Dr H M Taylor of Jacksonville Fla winning the Casselberry Prize for research on swimming’s effects on ears and sinuses. He argues humans, a land animal, lack aquatic nasal valves and infections rise from water exposure. He prescribes breathing with nose under water and mouth above, using slow exhalation, plus rubber stoppers or wool plugs as substitutes.
A Europe to Africa to America perspective compares child attitudes toward war, noting London and Paris emptied of children while Britain and France faced ultimatums. The author urges serious lessons over festive displays, urging foster care for displaced youth and focus on real causes and consequences of conflict.
Hollywood dispatches recount David Niven seeking short wartime delay to finish Raffles. A bandit scene plays as a tired extra laments no work and no money. Actor-author Al Hill lands a pickpocket role after a misfit rejection, and a producer-actor credits his critics before giving himself a raise. Gary Cooper sightings end with a humorous frame sales moment featuring a portrait.
Fourth of six menus for a family of five costing about twelve dollars weekly. Menu includes breakfast with bananas cereal milk butter toast fruit. lunch and supper featured Spanish rice buttered beets bread cookies oranges cocoa. dinner centers on Cheese Noodle Ring Eggs Bettina. Recipe outlines combine noodles milk cheese eggs and spices, baked then served with Eggs Bettina sauce.
A mixed list of crossword style clues and partial phrases. Includes references to a famed baseball player, directions, objects, and repeated themes such as sports terms, measurements, and common nouns.
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