Saturday Night Date Restores Patsy’s Quiet Hope
Patsy frets over a missed date with Jim Raine as she prepares for Saturday night. Waiting by the phone and listening to couples outside, she finally greets Jim when he arrives late from work. A simple evening out dispels her loneliness and confirms she has a date after all.
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Jim Raine
Patsy
Jim
Leila
Hersel
Dad
Bob
Davy Low
Pat
Wheeler Newspaper Syndicate
Business Opportunity Plastic Ornaments
Complete and up to date instruction by a professional with twenty five years experience. Start a real table business making and selling numerous gift items. We supply all materials. send 1.06 dollars today for instruction packet to Kingsway Art Studios 1375 Kingsway Vancouver B.C.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kingsway Art Studios
Kingsway
Vancouver
8.C
Devil's Food Cake Recipe with Chocolate Frosting
A vintage recipe for devil's food cake using two eggs or three yolks, Swans Down flour, soda, salt, butter, sugar, melted unsweetened chocolate, milk, and vanilla. Bake in deep 9-inch or 8-inch pans at 350°F for about 25 minutes. Fill with Fluffy Seven Minute Frosting or Mint Frosting between layers and on top.
Chocolate Crest Custard Pie
A recipe item describes Chocolate Crest Custard Pie with a pastry crust, eggs, sugar, salt, milk, vanilla, and chocolate topping. The method bakes at a high temperature then reduces to 350 degrees for 10 to 15 minutes longer until a knife comes out clean.
Tagged with gun marks in whale migration study
Scientists tag whales to study migration, but marketing uses stainless steel tubes fired into whale blubber from a 12 gauge gun.
Wood-Carver Builds Exquisite Miniature Church
Philippe Matte, 50, an electrical appliances salesman from Outremont, Quebec, spent over three years and 1,000 spare hours assembling 1,200 individual wood pieces into a 36 by 49 by 14 inch miniature church. It includes an altar, statues, flowers, pews and electric lights.
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Montreal
Phillipe Matte
Outremonte
Quebec
Matte
Modest Project Faces Failure
The International Children's Emergency Fund warns that a modest plan to feed 20 million children daily with a six cent meal may fail due to lack of funds. Nations spend billions on armaments while the program could feed far fewer children, with calories dropping from 700 to 500.
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International Children’s Emergency Fund
Ottawa Citizen
Millionaire Valued First Dollar Earned
W. F. Hubbard, Houston, informs a former Houston man now a New York millionaire that a $1 left in postal savings over twenty years ago has grown to $1.40. The man plans to claim the funds as one of his earliest earnings.
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Houston
Texas
W. F. Hubbard
U.S
New York
Three-Wheeled Bicycle Aims to Aid Blind Exercise
The Canadian National Institute for the Blind in Toronto announces a three wheeled two seater bicycle designed for sightless persons. The device lets a blind rider get full exercise and enjoyment with a sighted companion guiding the machine.
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Toronto
Canadian National Institute For the Blind
Fergus School Replaced by Glass-Walled Structure
A new single storey glass walled c shaped school in Fergus Ontario replaces a 76 year old building. The facility houses 400 pupils and features an outside exit for each classroom to reduce fire hazards.
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Fergus
Ontario
Her Best Dirndl Pattern 4850 for Girls
Anne Adams advertises Pattern 4850 a simple to sew dirndl for school or dress up. Sizes 6 8 10 12 14 with white frosted eyelet details and graduation appeal. Includes illustrated instructions and pricing 25 cents in coins mailed to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union.
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Anne Adams
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave. E
Winnipeg
Man
Canadian Girl Becomes Editor Of Alaska Highway News
Miss Georgina Murray, a Canadian War veteran with the W A N S, leads the Alaska Highway News at Fort St John in a remote Yukon region. Her operations required airflight of a printing press and she reports on frontier life including a bear meat brine tip and a child aiding a sick mother amid deep snow.
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Yorkshire Post
Georgina Murray
W.A.N.S
London
Alaska Highway News
Fort St. John
Yukon Territory
United States
Alaska
Murray
Yorkshire
Silk for Princess Elizabeth wedding gown may come from silkworms
At Lullingstone Castle Kent a colony of 4000000 silkworms has supplied silks for royal occasions including robes worn by the Queen and two princesses at the Corona event.
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Elizabeth
Britain
Lullingstone Castle
Kent
Punch and Judy Show Origins Recounted
A compact note recalls the origin of the Punch and Judy show dating to the early 17th century with brief reference to its English roots and traditional performance style.
Women on Cargo Vessels Provokes Union Protest
London. The National Union of Seamen conference endorsed the view that women on cargo vessels threaten future male employment. A Glasgow delegate warned of a female sergeant at arms and spoke against women in catering roles aboard ships.
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London
National Union of Seamen
Glasgow
Special Buses Are Most Luxurious
The Pathfinder notes a chauffeur driven bus for the president of a Texas ice company on a 1000 mile circuit. It offers two master staterooms showers galley refrigeration and air conditioning as a luxurious home on wheels praised by the Automobile Manufacturers Association. Other buses serve a Midwest plastic surgeon a Detroit auto dealer a traveling salesroom for motor parts.
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Pathfinder
Texas Ice Company
Park Avenue
Automobile Manufacturers Association
Midwest Plastic
Detroit
Synthetic rubber process ties soap to emulsion
Akron scientist Dr Waldo Semon of B F Goodrich explains that the soap used to produce 500 000 tons of synthetic rubber could form a bar 13 000 miles long. The soap helps create an emulsion allowing butadiene and styrene or other substances to join without forming an overly sticky mixture.
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Akron
Ohio
Waldo Semon
B. F. Goodrich Company
Maid Delivers Dire Message At Dinner Party
A Greenwich hostess hosts a small dinner and discovers error when the new maid presents a Western Union envelope. Inside is a brown wrapper with the note Can't find finger bowls revealing the lapse. The mishap ends the long wait and awkward dining interlude.
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The
New Yorker
Greenwich
More Doctors Sought for Canada’s Far North Posts
The Health and Welfare Department seeks more physicians for Canada's Indian and Eskimo health program. Since March the division has 45 doctors, but far more are needed. postings span Pangnirtung to Vanderhoof with three year tours, high salaries, full supplies, and remote first frontier service.
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Health and Welfare Department
Indian Services Division
Canada
Pangnirtung
Baffin Island
Cape Dorset
Vanderhoof
British Columbia
Civil Service Commission
North
Department
Muggsy McGraw Taunts Umpires In Pre Game Rant
John J. McGraw famed as the Giants’ tough manager earned a reputation for rough play and verbal jabs at umpires. In a pre game exchange with umpire Bob Emslie he teased that silence would shield him from a fine, prompting a sharp retort.
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John J. McGraw
New York Giants
Muggsy
Bob Emslie
Emslie
Bob
Nauru Ships Phosphate to Australia and New Zealand
Nauru, the Pacific island once captured by Japan and reoccupied by Allies, resumes shipping phosphate rock to Australia and New Zealand. Re-equipped by Australian interests, annual shipments may reach 500000 tons this year. The Belgian Congo provides more than half the world’s uranium ore used for radium.
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Nauru
Pacific
Australia
New Zealand
Belgian Congo
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