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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1945
Page
7
A kitchen and bath pattern offers a DIY project for brightening a bath with a cabinet or pair. It provides a materials list exact cut sizes illustrated assembly directions and painting guidance with garden flower motifs. The pattern numbers 284 and 285 cost 15 cents each with border designs and decoration ideas.
Mrs L E Dye of Pitcher Oklahoma discusses in a Faultless Starch letter how a light starching with Faultless Starch makes overalls wear longer and look better. She notes five sons and a husband create heavy wear and urges light starching for work clothes and children's garments to reduce rubbing and dirt.
The Rotterdam zoo director Eric Klant once Hagenbeck describes how a trained dancing bear suddenly attacked him during a matinee. He explains the bear’s loyalty, his wartime escape from German custody, months in hospital, and a perilous attic exile before returning to animal training under his real name.
Mrs. Alfreda Heck reports a missing heifer on her Springfield township farm. A Columbus Ohio state trooper misdirects her to Columbus in New Jersey, then to Chambers Corner as she seeks state police. The confusion highlights interstate police routing.
Seaman Paul Panagiotopoulos, 21, of St. Paul, had a night in at police headquarters after a victory celebration. When asked his name by Lt. Frank Kennedy, he replied Seaman Panagiotopoulos and admitted he had shortened it from Paul Apostolopanagiotopoulos.
Ty Cobb praises Shoeless Joe Jackson as his top hitter, arguing Jackson could hit .380 to .410 even against doctored balls. He recalls Babe Ruth, Nap Lajoie, and Cy Young, and reflects on pitching legends Walter Johnson and Ed Walsh. Cobb details swing logic, the livelier ball era, and his own experiments with power hitting.
Philadelphia reports the army cancelled contracts for pigeon brassieres. The signal corps told a brassiere manufacturer it would stop making lace bands to protect carrier pigeons in paratrooper pockets.
New York reports three American civilians chose death over imprisonment during the Japanese invasion of Jolo on Christmas Eve 1941. J. Scott McCormick, Boy Scout commissioner, died defending his post after refusing to flee. Perry Macklan sheltered his family, then faced the invaders and fell in a fusillade. Antoni Fraki an stood his ground and was shot when confronted by a soldier.
In Chicago Edwin Lederer and his 17 month old daughter Alvaline were saved from a three story blaze by their collie puppy Doo doo. The dog woke them with barking as smoke filled the rear of the building and Lederer carried the child to safety before re entering the flames to save the puppy. Doo doo perished from suffocation on the back porch.
Elmer Sayre a 21 year old discharged veteran was taken for observation at Bellevue hospital after hiring a cab to take him to the East River to jump in. The cabby William Donegan recounted Sayre asked if the river was deep and suitable before starting toward the police station.
New York report cites Stockholm Tidningen saying Germany saw a large wave of suicides after the Potsdam communique. Berlin reported about 1,200 deaths in one week, Leipzig 600, Hamburg 458, Frankfurt and Cologne also listed high figures.
A two piece frock and jacket pattern No 8905 for juniors sizes 11 to 18. Description highlights a softly flared peplum waist and graceful gores with a doll waist. Size 12 short race requires 334 yards of 35 inch material.
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