Truman White House talk shocks and comforts in small plans
The piece sketches President Truman and Bess debating living quarters in the White House, favoring a cozier home feel with a kitchen and familiar comforts. It contrasts grand galleries with a homey Missouri atmosphere and notes critics eyeing new gadgets while the couple prefers simplicity. Also mentions Elmer Twitchell and a Cornell scientist studying mosquito love songs as part of pest control efforts.
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Bess
Truman
Independence
Grandview
Mra
Roosevelt
Outdoor Furniture Make Your Own Patterns 15 Cents Each
Create a weekend project for outdoor furniture using only three stock lumber widths. Simple straight cuts, nails or screws with waterproof glue, and removable backs for easy storage. Includes a lawn bench, two large chairs, a child chair, with patterns 279 289 253, each 15 cents postpaid by number.
Wise Bird Would Have Taken to Its Wings
A disgruntled soldier, after missing a railway connection, wanders a dark, rain-soaked town. He enters a restaurant and questions a waitress about sage hen. She explains it is a local bird. he quips that if it has wings and stays put, he wants nothing with wings.
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Sparky Watts
Alie
Tou Vir
Shark
Gparky Watts
Boody Rogers
Bee Ge Poe
Sharik
Gene Byrnes
Lenkless
By Bob Karp
Sti
Poppa
Nell
Santa Claus
Pop
J. Millar Watt
Private Buck
Clyde Lewis
Pizeon Lor
Monmouth
Cross Town
By Roland Coe
Trumans
White House
Mrs. Truman
Kansas City
Twitchell
Skeeter
Elmer Twitchell
Cornell
Morton C. Kahn
Elmer
Matthew J. Connolly
Clinton, Mass
Jimmy Reinsch
Atlanta, Ga
Jimmy
Matt Om
Neogg- Bury
Washington
Atsee ET A
Orutia
Ruth Wyeth Spears
Bedford Hills
New York
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