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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1939
Page
7
Digest of household pointers on menu planning categorized desserts and child friendly options. Guidance on high windows hangings and tea towel care with borax. Egg sandwich tips favor scrambled eggs for easier digestion and quantity. Dried beef storage advised in a covered glass jar. Velvet remnants suggested for alternative chamois use.
June Harder navigates grief after her mother's death as Uncle Jim, Clint, and Asa shape her fragile world. She receives secret garments, contemplates a new life with Clint, and shares a late night escape to meet him, while famil y ties and old tensions press in at home.
Dialog shows two speakers joking about money repay, a fast car curve, staying in to listen to the radio, and waiting for a taxi if it rains. Casual banter reflects domestic humor and urban setting in a dated tone.
An old advertisement promotes Dr. Caldwell's Laxative with Syrup Pepsin to relieve constipation and stomach distress. It claims Pepsin dissolves undigested protein in the stomach and wakes lazy bowels, urging readers to buy the product from druggists.
June Bowden mourns the loss of Grandpa Bowden and receives Asa’s comforting words. She steels herself to help the family, bears the burden at home, and longs for Clint. The scene shifts to morning as she retreats to the woods, hoping Clint will sense her need.
A reflective piece on Kentucky poet Jesse Stuart recalling a utopian childhood in W Hollow. Vivid scenes detail oak autumn skies, streams, martins, gardening memories, plum blossoms, and cornfields. The prose contrasts heavenlike youth with time’s theft, as recalled from Southern Literary Messenger.
The term pecten and its zoological use are explained as a comb like organ on the underside of the middle toe claw in herons whippoorwills night hawks and barn owls. It aids in cleaning and dressing plumage and likely helps remove bird lice.
Virginia Vale reports from Sweden on Greta Garbo in England where fans adore her films but resents her aloof privacy. She notes Garbo’s transition from hat model to star, Greer Garson’s breakout in Goodbye Mr Chips, and Paramount's push for Bob Preston as a new leading man amid marriages of Gable, Power, and Taylor. Kate Smith shifts to nine o'clock Fridays after summer break, preserving national popularity.
Henry Fonda and family avoided clubs and press junkets while in New York, preferring nightly theater outings. The note mentions upcoming Metropolitan Auditions of the Air resuming October first and Jim Ameche replacing Charles Boyer on Hollywood Playhouse during Boyer’s vacation. Helen Morgan’s potential in television is noted and censors threatening Lady of the Tropics may limit Hollywood output.
A British correspondent claims Chamberlain’s umbrella hides a sword-stick and hidden devices a fencer might deploy. He alleges ribs become entangling wires a sandbag rest and even a rifle rest while a tassel conceals messages to drop from planes. Americans doubt the tale.
A compact reflection on restraint urging silence when speech serves no purpose. It cautions that a weak reply can empower an opponent and that quiet dignity protects against unnecessary harm. The aphorism frames speech as strategic leverage in discourse.
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