Clark Gable’s Humble Roads to Stardom
Born 1900 in Cadiz Ohio and raised in Hopedale Gable grew up amid hardship. He worked varied jobs from seventeen including factory time keeper, theater call boy, oil driller and lumberjack before rising through stock companies to star in It Happened One Night which won the best picture award in 1934.
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Not on First Page Too Smooth for Comfort
A Toronto Globe quote shows a witty exchange where a young man contemplates whether to age the widow ten years younger or ten years older based on her looks or intelligence. The brief anecdote highlights verbal humor about perception and age.
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Carl Sandburg A restless jack of all trades and fame
A portrait of Carl Sandburg born 1878 in Galesburg Illinois who, from poverty and many early jobs, rose to become a famed poet and biographer. The piece stresses his diverse experiences from milk wagon to theater scene shifts and his later editorial and Chicago Daily News work.
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Choose Your Sew-Your-Own Summer Dress Pattern
Fashion notes promote three Sew-Your-Own dress styles for summer wear, highlighting a two piece romantic frock, a shorter matinee style, and an all occasion dress. Details cover fabrics like marquisette and organdie, sewing ease, flattering fit, and social appeal. Pattern numbers 1291 1847 and 1279 with yardage and sizes listed. order from The Sewing Circle at Chicago.
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Household Tips From WNU Service
Practical household hints cover boiling syrup preventing overflow, brightening piano keys with alcohol, preserving cut flowers with mild acid, making custard sauce, cleaning rubber wringers with kerosene, tinting milk for fussy drinkers, improving rhubarb flavor by blanching, blacking stoves with shoe polish, and storing tea and coffee in stone jars.
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