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Newspaper
The Potter Review
Location
Potter, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1940
Page
2
Potholders you can make at little cost with Pattern 2645 showing charts directions and stitches. Materials needed include patterns and an illustration. Send order to terse Name Address.
A holiday tobacco ad touts Prince Albert in one pound tins as ideal Christmas gifts. The copy promotes merry traditions and gifting with ready wrap and gift cards, urging smokers to visit their local tobacco stores for the cool burning Prince Albert blend.
George McAusland, 38, leaves America for Fiji Islands to serve as a missionary. A guilt driven crime haunts him and he avoids Mary Doncaster who is traveling to Gilead Island to visit her missionary parents. She dives in to save him when he falls overboard, and he falls in love as the ship nears Gilead Island where Mary's parents have just died. He volunteers to lead the mission.
Mary and George settle on Ephraim Doncaster's island after a sunset wedding on the Sunset. George resists changing his manners, clinging to habits while Mary nudges him toward adaptation. They grow closer as they observe native life, discuss marriage, and plan a future away from Joseph Neargood.
Mary learns of a hidden deserter Corkran living near the cliff and the islanders taboo against women in canoes. She confronts him when he is found by the beach and promises secrecy to protect George. Meanwhile George struggles with language and memories of home as Mary recalls old dreams and Richard Carr.
Reader asks about repairing cracked plaster ceilings and suggests alternatives like rigid insulating boards or gypsum wallboard. Expert warns against plastering ceilings with movement, recommends insulating boards or gypsum panels and painting. Additional notes cover amateur repainting, shaded yard planting with ivy or pachysandra, and a city air sulphur effect on fabrics. Also covers tin roof to roof garden options and a book on building fieldstone houses by Ernest Flagg.
In Chapter IV Mary and George inspect the house their boat‑landed family will inhabit. They assign rooms to maintain privacy, despite no doors or curtains. A child caretaker Ieni arrives with a gourd bowl of sticky food, which Mary explains is to be eaten by finger.
A reader describes how to fashion a woolly lamb using three wire coat hangers two old towels fine wire hair pins and needle and thread. Hangers form the foundation bound by hair pins with a cloth ball head covered by towel and padded body shaped by toweling strips.
Local dealers feature Camel gift specials including a carton ten packs of 20s in holiday dress and a Christmas four flat fifties package. Both are ready to give with gift labels attached.
The speaker argues adversity defines unhappiness and contends that one is miserable only if they have experienced hardship. It asserts that those who never endure suffering lack true misery and casts judgment on such tranquil lack of adversity.
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