18 Dec 1937
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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1937
Page
1
A discussion on promotional schemers and costly advertising ruses in small towns. Merchants are urged to avoid outside rackets, prefer proven agencies, and resist paying for hollow programs while noting bank holidays and shifting workweeks as contexts for better practice.
A thoughtful column discusses vacation mood among schoolchildren and college students returning home for Christmas. It praises youthful ambition and public service, warns against excess, and urges communities to expand social plans and investment in local resources.
Philadelphia philatelist Philip H. Ward met the President with $100,000 worth of stamps to press for a Benjamin Franklin memorial issue. Ward, eager and serious about stamps, demonstrated rare sheets including an upside down 1918 airmail, while recounting stamp histories and postwar values.
Radio Today lists NBC and NBC Blue network programs with bands, news, and dance shows across Eastern time. A reader recounts pre Civil War stamps and famous misprints, noting upside down designs and demonetized stamps fetch value among philatelists.
A wall of John Golden’s New York office displays 27 framed images including two by Golden. He reflects on choosing projects, keeping a tidy excess of wealth, and rejecting risqué plays though praising Susan and God as a witty, clean smash hit.
In a tale set in a den of a white fox a sailor plots to rescue Helga the doll. He persuades the fox to race using an ice boat with ballast while a tiny squirrel hides in the fox fur to avoid capture. The North Wind hints at escape as the fox clumsily searches and the plan unfolds.
A dense listing of Sunday and late night NBC WEAF programs across multiple time slots. The schedule enumerates musical acts, orchestras, singers, dramas, sermons, and news segments with numerous performers including Paul Martin, Tuskegete Singers, Gale Fuge, Marion Talley, Jack Benny, and Jerry Blaine. It reflects a varied array of 1940s era radio programming, with stations and show names interleaved and many descriptors fragmented by OCR.
Bus timetable excerpt shows Georgia Stages and Coleman Motor Lines with routes between Atlanta Dothan Waycross Tifton Tallahassee Monticello and other points. Hours listed for departures and arrivals across multiple days includes Sunday Monday Friday and Saturdays only.
A garbled OCR fragment shows scattered phrases, clues, and word fragments. The text includes mixed references to inked hos, numbers, and disjointed questions, resembling a puzzle page with missing context and partial crossword style entries.
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