Twitchell on Restaurants and Life in a Half Egg Home
The column blends Elmer Twitchell critique of modern restaurant operators with comic vignettes about quonset huts and eggs. It also notes President Truman’s health, inflation jokes, and hints at a UN site search, all in a satirical newspaper voice.
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Grocery Company
Olive Street
St. Louis
Elmer Twitchell
Truman
White House
Washington D C a city of contrasts and growth
The Washington area has swollen from about 350000 to over a million in fifteen years and the metropolitan region now reaches into Maryland and Virginia. Crowded stores lines for goods doubled up housing and a building boom set against shortages and high rents. Congress debates granting residents the right to vote while civic leadership remains weak and representation in city government is lacking.
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Georgia
Bartow County
Cartersville
Bette Winterbottom
University of Georgia
Doroth Sanderfer
Shorter College
Rome
Red-gall
Gene Talmadge
James V. Carmichael
Carmichael
Ashington
Capitol
Mall
Washington
National Capitol
Senate
House
Congress
Maryland
Virginia
District of Columbia
Bethesda
Silver Spring
Takoma Park
Hyattsville
Arlington
Alexandria
Falls Church
Capitol Dome
British Purchasing Agency
Russian Purchasing Agency
Pegged Tables in Two Handy Sizes
Egged furniture may be set up quickly anywhere and stored for winter. The two tables shown include a larger table the size of a card table and a small coffee table that can serve as a seat. Anyone who can saw straight and drive screws can make them along with the chair. Patterns 293 and 292 offer diagrams and instructions for 15c each or 25c for both, with postpaid delivery.
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New York
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Harold L. George
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AAF
Smokey Joe
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Boston Red Sox
Wood
Colgate University
Hamilton
Young Wood
Ted Williams
Babe Ruth
Cleveland
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Dear
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America
England
Frante Aussia
Janie
Rockefeller
Speaker
Larry Singer
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Dodge City
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Bedford Hills
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College of Emporia
Emporia, Kansas
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