Miley Burnette's tenth year in films and radio rise
Virginia Vale notes Miley Burnette, a Western comedian known as Smiley, marks ten years in films with his Border Town Trails project. From barnstorming the Midwest to running a one man radio station in Illinois, he wrote songs and later joined Gene Autry in Chicago then Hollywood, composing over 200 songs and appearing in nearly 100 pictures with Republic, Roy Rogers and others. Allan Jones also lands a Universal return to Hollywood to star in a new film while hosting a radio show in Chicago.
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Universal Pictures
Cookie Jar Shelf Pattern Promises Quick Home Build
A home crafted cookie jar and corner shelf kit is described with a self standing shelf and a straight cut cookie box. Pattern 260 offers an actual size design with color guide and lettering peasant figures mailed for 15 cents. The article also mentions film and radio gossip about entertainers and a quilt pattern featuring a large strawberry patch.
Whole Industrial Plants Crated Shipped to Russia
Collier's reports that the United States sent two complete industrial plants to Russia last year in crates to save time and shipping space. One was a $1,900,000 refinery processing 246,000 barrels of crude oil weekly. the other a $5,600,000 tire factory producing $5,000 military tires monthly.
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Russia
United States
Collier’s
Correcting Big Ben with a coin on the pendulum weight
The London clock at Westminster is kept accurate by adjusting a small coin on a tray halfway down the 700 pound pendulum. The inaccuracy rarely exceeds one fifth of a second and is corrected by adding or removing the coin.
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