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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1950
Page
7
A vintage ad notes a wading pool and sand box for children featuring an adjustable sun shade and marine plywood bottom. It includes a jolly whale painting pattern and color chart for kids to enjoy during playtime.
A vintage crochet pattern promotes a scarf with spider-web motif and picot edging. It notes the scarf can be any length and available in white or pastel colors, crocheted in string with pattern 7 directions. Readers are asked to send 20 cents, name, address, and pattern number.
The page lists six quiz questions with answers. It identifies Mrs. John Tyler as the first widow of a president to receive a pension. It names Los Angeles St Louis and San Francisco as the three largest midwest west coast cities between the Mississippi and the Pacific. It gives 300 feet as the Babel Tower height and rain water or melted snow as the softest water. It notes William Dudley Pelley as founder of the Silver Shirts and Galilean publisher, arrested by FBI agents on sedition charges on April 4 1942. It defines shoddy as wool remanufactured from waste woolens.
In Pasadena California writer Eloise Andrae sought local color for radio crime stories. She forged a temporary license as Susan Ann Little to cash 25 dollars and charged 3.95 to a nonaccount holder, then 15.47 again. Detectives arrested her on forgery suspicion.
Madison Georgia resident Mrs Charles Shell fired a pistol at a car carrying Mrs Jerry Shepard after claiming she had shot the wrong woman. Shepard survived the attack with unspecified injuries.
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