The Pinkham Era and Patent Medicine Ads Remembered
A columnist recalls Lydia Pinkham and era advertising, listing era products like Bear In Mind cereal Kickapoo Indian Sagwa and Payne’s Celery Compound. It notes Lydia Pinkham as a Lynn Massachusetts pioneer for women and her marketing impact. The piece blends history with light commentary on oysters and a Japanese banker arrest.
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Jean Burton
Lydia Pinkham
Feat Lady
Billboard
Mr. Munyon
Father Duffy
Bigelow & Healy
Alcott
Payne
Sloane
Lydia
Lynn
Mass
Crossword Puzzle Across and Down Clues Mixed
A long mixed list of crossword clues with numbers and definitions spanning harvest city river rind storm topaz hummingbird keel part right side prefix retired after on and on including several nautical and linguistic terms and many two word fragments for across and down entries
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Mountain Pass
Atle
Humble
British Airforce
Last Week's Answer Puzzle Clues and Solutions
A compact clue set listing last week answers. Crooked appears as a defined answer, followed by clues for climbing plant malt beverage and place with concise, single-line hints for each item. Names of clues reflect standard crossword phrasing.
Cripps Bevin discuss British sacrifices to save dollars in Washington
Economic Czar Sir Stafford Cripps and Foreign Minister Bevin spoke at a National Press Club luncheon in Washington about Britain’s dollar shortage and sacrifices. Cripps claimed he and Bevin gave up tobacco as part of the effort, while Bevin joked about Cripps’s tobacco purchases. The piece notes Britain’s reduced tobacco use by shunning North Carolina crops and turning to African colonies.
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Stafford Cripps
Bevin
National Press Club
Washington
Cripps
Britain
North Carolina
Bogart and stars spark offbeat chatter in film gossip
Studio chatter notes Bogart clinging to his lucky battered hat since Treasure of Sierra Madre and seen next in Columbia's Tokyo Joe. A 24 by 18 foot cricket frames menace scenes between Bogart and Hayakawa, while Eleanor Parker recalls diet worries for Chain Lightning and a convict role in Warner's Locked In. Lucille Ball coins doof er and doofers, Barbara Stanwyck tests with Lyle Bettger in The Lie, and Montgomery Clift tops Motion Picture Herald poll with Kirk Douglas second and Betty Garrett third.
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Umphrey Bogart
Sierra Madre
Colum
Bia
Tokyo Joe
Bogart
Hayakawa
Montgomery Clift
Red River
Motion Picture Herald
Kirk Douglas
Betty Garrett
Life at The Fiction Corner Ends in Lost Romance
Vida, an 18 year old reader who used books to charm Glen Lamhier, sees her plan falter as his interest wanes after a week of striving to emulate fiction heroines. The piece follows her realization that charm may fade when real life unfolds beside a Wilde volume by the fireplace.
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Thomas
Duke Cullum
Cullum
Oklahoma
Commodity Exchange
Agriculture Department
Senate Agriculture Committee
Callum
Agriculture
Ida
Vida
Glen Lamphier
Glen
Oscar Wilde
Vida Aban
Proposing Sparks Romance in Wilde Paragraph
Vida reads a pencil checked Oscar Wilde passage and reacts with rising emotion to the idea that romance lies in uncertainty. Glen, who marked the text, notes her deep faith in printed words as she moves toward the book head in acquiescence.
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Oscar Wilde
Vida
Glen
Passage Reveals Secrets Behind Fireplace
Vida finds a marked passage in a volume of O Briens short stories and Glen reads through it twice. He calls after an hour and eagerly welcomes Vida with an urgent message she understands.
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O’brien
Glen
Vida
Smile Awhile Cartoon Exchange in Fat Elephant Jest
A tense dialogue unfolds as Hubert and Philbert share a humorous exchange about peanuts and elephants. Dora disputes her mother’s defense while a touching misinterpretation of love and concern emerges. The scene blends awkward affection and comic misreadings in a domestic moment.
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Pinkham
Mother Sill
Glover
Grace Noll Crowell
Winchester
Boston
New England
Florida
Essex
Conn
Porto Rico Bay
Capital News
Senate Labor Committee
Truman
Donnell
Missouri
Atlantic Defense
State Department
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Food and Agricultural Branch
United Nations
Europe
India
Lard
George Parks
Fats and Oils
Parks
Inez Gerhard
Eleanor Parker
Warners
Deeds
Terry Moore
Glenn Ford
Columbia
Miss Grant
Richmond
Lucille Ball
Barbara Stanwyck
Lyle Bettger
Paramount
Humphrey Bogart
the Fiction Corner
Hubert
Philbert
Dora
R Cup Ware Water
Swaar
Red Star
Laeres FM
Duff’s
Yapsoers
Sano
Fleming-Nall Tobacco CO
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