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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1948
Page
9
Laura Wheeler unveils pattern 651 for a bluebird chair set in easy pineapple crochet. The new design includes charts photos and concise directions to simplify needlework for a graceful room accent.
At church meetings Aunt Sarah dispels dullness with wit while a janitor named Pete faces discharge for dirtiness. Mrs. Smythe argues mercy, insisting Pete is clean inside despite his outside mess. The group weighs firing him versus mercy.
A listed set of trivia prompts includes how many matches from a pine tree how many doughnuts eaten yearly what is the largest printing plant in the world which color repels flies which insect fertilizes clover and which states currently allow divorce.
A store is left in charge by a pretty young bookkeeper during lunch. A handsome man asks if auto accessories are kept. She winks and says Only me, turning the encounter into a playful local vignette.
The excerpt notes pine yields over 800 board feet of lumber plus plank for a million matches and cites seven billion as a larger figure. It mentions the U S Government Printing Office and a general discussion on storage and fuels.
A Boston customer eyed a parrot in a pet shop and asked if it talks. The embarrassed salesman replied that the bird does talk but refuses to be quoted.
A woman confronts a floorwalker asking about her husband two hours late. She quips that by now he is probably purple, suggesting a dramatic or humorous incident at the station. The exchange captures a tense yet witty moment in a public setting.
In a village post office a man identifies a parcel addressed to Mr Smith by producing a photograph of himself. The post master confirms the resemblance and hands over the parcel after the match.
A city boy sent to a farm for the summer watches the farmer's wife pluck a chicken and asks if they take off the birds clothes every night. The misinterpreted question reveals a child's innocent viewpoint as dusk settles over the garden.
Learn to build lawn furniture at very low cost with full size patterns. Step by step directions cover cutting and assembly with exact part locations. Patterns include complete material lists and use stock lumber from yards. Send 25 cents for Lawn Chair Pattern No. 56 to East Bird Pattern Company.
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