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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1950
Page
6
A practical note on making currant jelly with raspberries using a short boil method. It describes ingredients for juice and jelly, steps to extract juice, combine fruit juices with powdered pectin, form a hard rolling boil, and fill about ten six ounce glasses with paraffin seals.
A report notes repeated nest destruction during May and June with nests and eggs ruined and adults killed by flames. It also mentions using left-over fruits to refresh meals by incorporating them into muffins.
Five parrots and a cockatiel keep watch from a cage beside Dr. Hastings at National City Church. They react to guests by chirping and screaming, revealing emotional states of visitors from a fiancé’s indecision to wedding plans. A thief killed one parakeet during a break in.
Police and firemen rescue Mrs. Collette Schneider after she went back to bed despite being told her house was on fire. They wake her a second time and learn her 10 year old daughter was safe in a private school, not in the home.
A Norfolk cab driver, Oscar Osmund, helps a couple from Little Creek to a ferry dock after being pressed into oil checking duties. He later learns the passenger was Vice-President Alben Barkley and his wife. Osmund recalls asking who Barkley was, saying he did not know the vice president.
Secret Service Chief A. E. Baughman said public losses from counterfeiting more than tripled in 1949, rising to 651 445 dollars from 190 133 in 1948. The year saw 478 arrests and 278 convictions. another 703 423 in bogus bills was seized before circulation, with increases in forgeries of treasury checks and savings bonds.
In a Mi yako’s luncheon Gordon MacRae discusses his lifelong pull to entertainment. Born in East Orange though raised in Syracuse, he recalls amateur acting as a teen and a musical family background. He notes The Railroad Hour blends his acting and singing strengths as his three children watch his career.
Joan Davis selects a bride of the month from NBCs When A Girl Marries with Mary Jane Higby as lead. The chosen contestant will be featured in True Romance Magazine with a wedding day photo album and a valuable wedding gift.
Water meters reduced per person consumption from 260 to 132 gallons daily in Los Angeles, engineers noting a 128 gallon drop as waste and leakage. Also mentions First Marines Capt Samuel Nicholas who in 1775 instructed recruiters to take only dependable and robust candidates with religious nature.
NBC star Robert Young and his family showcase musical gifts with daughter Kathy Nilsson a pianist and eighth violin chair. Barbara Young, twelve, also a skilled pianist. CBS’s Perry Mason star John Larkin browses newsstands and discovers a Perry Mason paperback. Actress Jeanette Dowling of When A Girl Marries and husband Francis Letton hunt Manhattan apartments using a window-cleaning cue method in Greenwich Village to find an ideal home.
The article notes the lack of a birthdate, details of boyhood, the “lost years” 1584 to 1592, and any authentic likeness, highlighting how little is definitively known about Shakespeare.
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