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Newspaper

Shafter Press

Location

Shafter, California, United States of America

Date

Jul 04, 1947

Page

8

High Pockets Wins World Series Break Via McGee Blunder

In a dramatic final at bat High Pockets Kelley clings to luck as Frederick Longstreth McGee lines a drive that knocks Kelley unconscious and sets the Yankees up to win the World Series. McGee’s hit bounces off Kelley into a triple play possibility, turning the game and Sally’s fate.

Kelley Slats McKeever Giants Yankee Sally Ryall Pete Howard Ishpeming Michigan Sally Northern Michigan Frederick Longstreth McGee Fred Clark Gable McGee Smith Yankees Jones Pearson Talsot Wirtz Pete Connelly Golenpaul McKeever Howard Hemingway Plate Frederick Longstreth McGee Shirley Temple New York High Pockets Stone Lou Fred McGee Dr. Golenpaul

Household Dinners for Company Luncheons

A friend laments lacking a good list of main dishes and desserts to please guests. She seeks reliable options that appeal to everyone, noting the recurring difficulty of choosing meals that satisfy a group at luncheons.

Lynn Chambers Menu Suggests Complete Luncheon Plan

A period piece outlines a ready-to-use luncheon menu with choices such as Chicken Loaf with Mushroom Sauce and Tuna a la King in Potato Nests. It includes recipes for Lime Chiffon Pie and Lattice Rhubarb Pie, with instructions on preparation, baking, and serving for six.

Baked Tomatoes and Banana Cream Tart Recipes

A Western Newspaper Union release outlines two dessert ideas. Baked Stuffed Tomatoes use shrimp or crab with cream sauce and paprika baked in tomato shells. Banana Cream Tarts combine bananas cream and coconut in baked tart shells with whipped cream topping.

Western Newspaper Union

Colorful Nicknames In Underworld Revealed By FBI Files

The FBI identification division notes colorful nicknames for female underworld figures and notorious gang members. Nicknames like Cotton Patch Molly and Iron Foot Florence help track criminals, with 469,515 nicknames on file at year start and 47,580 added last year.

Cotton Patch Molly Bessie Florence Lizz High Ball Lill Annie Federal Bureau of Investigation USI FBI Shorty Lewie Frenchy Willie Nelson Lester M. Gillis the Owl Basil Hugh Banghart Pollynose Kator Touhy August John Lamar Roger Touhy Charles Arthur Floyd Cockeye Mary Wildflower Kentucky New York City Kelly Memphis Tenn Underworld

Air transportation and flying clubs across the Midwest

The article reports on a first all Upper Peninsula tour under Michigan state aeronautics support covering 289 miles with eight stops. It notes Decorah Iowa forming a flying club with an Aeronca Chief, July 5 6 airport dedication in Worthington Minnesota, Flying Farmers of Iowa district meetings, an American Legion air show in Harper Kansas, and various aviation education and cooperation efforts across several states. It also covers aerial disease scouting for soybeans, Girl Scout Wing Scouts training, joint airport dedication in Arkansas City and Winfield Kansas, a kneeling nose gear jet fighter, Clinton county Ohio lightning experiments, and Navy photo flights to study storms.

Michigan State Department of Aeronauts Decorah Flying Club Decorah Iowa Aeronca Worthington Minn Flying Farmers of Iowa Ames Iowa State College American Legion Harper Kas Arkansas City Winfield Kansas Strotherfield AAF Fairchild Personal Planes Frank Carlson Dawn Patrol Navy North American Aviation

Crossword Puzzle Clues

A list of crossword clues across and down with numbers and hints including Plucky Young dog Place of trade War god Chimpanzee At any time Joyous To revolve round central point Confronted Askew Scot Dry Combining form oil Sick Hackneyed Insect egg Egyptian deity Emmet 101 To append Tendon Domestic fowl Ardor Mere repetition Preserves Lasso Memorial of victory Deer's horn Poker stake Bristle To steer Dutch farmer in S Africa Explanation Epochs Boat hook Plane surface Small cactus Ether compound Slang chum Above Wooden pin To be swallowed up Where King Arthur got his sword

Central Point Arthur

Puzzle clues from a newspaper game page

Solution in Next Issue. 10 Network 11 Card with three pips 16 Mine entrance 18 Eastern university 22 To flow off gradually 23 Weasellike aquatic animal 24 Man's name 25 Youth 27 Hotel 29 Frozen water 30 Mineral 35 To. apply 36 Official's scart 37 Impaired by use 38 Physician 40 Outcast 47 Weapons 42 Tenth part 49 Animal of the 43'To pierce ox 'family 44 Italian river 50 Some 46 Web 53 You and.t.

Eastern University

Six Months More Change Sparks Life Transformation

A man once negative and past forty adopts a six month life-timing mindset. He acts on advice to imagine only six months left and fills the period with purpose, transforming his outlook and happiness. The narrator urges others to try the same to pursue a fuller life.

Lynn Urges Tempting Leftovers in Luncheon Dishes

Mrs Lynn advises reinvigorating leftovers by adding meat to scalloped dishes such as pork with corn beef with green beans and lamb with tomatoes. She suggests glamour for Weal a la King with slivered almonds and mushrooms and using browned bread crumbs as toppings.

Youth Mows Lawn as Penalty for Prank in Ohio

In Columbus Ohio Mrs Frank Bangert has her lawn mowed all summer by a reluctant 13 year old. The boy was ordered to mow as punishment after he was denied permission to string a toy telephone line across the property and responded by stuffing a 17 inch garden snake into the house through the mail slot. A juvenile court judge set the sentence.

Columbus Ohio Frank Bangert

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the Fiction Corner Jack Kofoed Jess Moore Wilson Lake Lynn Chambers W NU W. V. Allington Department of Agriculture Midwest Allington Urbana, Ill Hawaii William T. Piper Clinton County Army Air Field Wilmington Ben Franklin Air Material Command S. Africa Lynn
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