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Shiner Gazette from Shiner, Texas • Page 6

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Shiner Gazettei
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Shiner, Texas
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SHINER GAZETTE, SHINER, TEXAS FIRST AID to the AILING HOUSE by Roger C. Whitman QUESTION: What size mesh should be used for gutters, and what kind would be impervious corrosion? ANSWER: A quarter-inch mesh, which would keep most of the leaves out of the gutter in case there are trees close to the house. Copper is impervious to corrosion. QUESTION: My indirect heater is connected to the boiler, but my hot water is only luke-warm. What is the matter? ANSWER: If you were getting hot water and the condition has developed recently, it is possible the heater jacket is clogged with sediment and may have to be taken apart and cleaned.

QUESTION: How can I remove varnish from my linoleum rug? ANSWER: Sponge with a lukewarm solution of trisodium phosphate using about 3 pounds to the gallon of water. Let the solution stay on long enough to soften the varnish, then take up with fine steel wool. Rinse thoroughly. QUESTION: Can you tell me what causes the hot water faucet to vibrate with a disturbing noise when it Is turned on? ANSWER: Since the noise occurs only when the faucet is on, the trouble may be from a worn-out washer or some loose part in the faucet. Also, there is a possibility that you are overheating the water.

QUESTION: When the former tenants moved from here they scored the floors with their furniture. Is there any way I can remove the score marks? ANSWER: Scraping with an electric floor sanding machine should take out most of the marks. If any slight hollow place remains after sanding, you may be able to make them less noticeable by building them up with several thin coats of a quick-drying varnish. Maine Bag Maine hunters bagged 120,000 rabbits and more than 100,000 partridge in 1947. Actual returns from checking stations showed a deer take of 30,349.

About 12.000 pheasants were bagged, while only 500 geese fell to guns in Maine last year. Figures were compiled from a sampling of 10.00Q license holders, which proved even more accurate than anticipated; as the wildlife census questionnaire totaled 31,000 deer taken, as against the checking station deer take of 30,349. AS PURE AS MONEY CAN BUY St.Joseph aspirin WORLD'S LARGEST SELLER AT 104 face BrokenOul? Do as so many do for skin Resinol Soap for daily cleansing Resinol to soothe pimply irritation. resinol LANES PILLS GIVES when cold miseries strike FAST RELIEF What yoor Husband? Perhaps aa Iron deficiency is keeping "betow If it W. H.

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N. HERBS-IROK St net 1879 u-f Only yo can PREVENT WOODS FIRES lEvSCREENfiADIO By INEZ GERHARD lorence freeman has been playing prominent parts in radio dramas since her debut in 1935. Currently she is helping to celebrate the first anniversary of "Wendy Warren and the in which, of course, she is Woman of "Valiant Widder a partial list of her assignments. She is a college graduate, taught for a year before deciding to be an actress. In real life she is a wife, has two daughters, 7 and 9, and lives in New Jersey in a lovely old house which has just been remodelled with the active participation of the entire family.

In the film based on the radio sketch, Wrong Barbara Stanwyck is heiress to a drug fortune, so Edith Head tried BARBARA STANWYCK to imagine what the richest girl in the world would wear for a wedding dress, and Barbara wears it. Since Rudd Weatherwax, owner- trainer of Lassie, announced during rehearsal of the show that she had had seven pups, he has been snowed under by requests for a puppy. One already has been given to Claude Jarman, the youngster who is co-starred with Lassie in the M-G-M film, in the Nobody can say that Ray Milland put his shoulder to the wheel when asked to. During a visit in New York he appeared on five radio shows to help advertise and exploit his new picture, Evil My One of the best of Big broadcasts was the recent one based on material supplied by Bill Pinney of Pensacola, Journal. It dramatized the police trapping of the perpetrator of a crime that endangered the lives of 350 innocent persons.

Pinney received a $500 award from the sponsor. Carmen Cavalerro has hit on something new for his Tuesday NBC broadcasts. A psychiatrist has been engaged to make sure the musical programs are relaxing, as the sponsor ordered. A week beforehand, each program is tried out on three different groups at a hospital. Sounds like a bid for publicity, but Carmen and the doctor say true.

Four members of most exclusive club, the John Ford Honorary Stock company, appear in To be eligible, actors must have been in pictures at least 20 years. The roster includes Maurice Costello, Hoot Gibson, Frank Mayo and J. Farrell MacDonald, who were stars when Clark Gable was felling trees and Dot Lamour was an elevator girl. Peggy Ann Garner, made famous by Tree Grows in is now 17 and gets her first grownup role in Eagle Big Columbia will film the highlights in the career of columnist-commentator Drew Pearson in a semi-documentary film tentatively titled Washington He will narrate and appear in important sequences. Odds and Ends Warner Baxter kisses his 100th leading lady in from Nowhere" and his leading lady.

Fay Baker, gets kissed by her first film leading man Hollywood reports that Bing Crosby has been advised to lay off television for at least one more year on NBC Thursday evenings, is a good as an added attraction, has no master of ceremonies. Mary Rolfe, sister on Aldrich is very happy. Her husband, Lyle Bettger. is home after four months in Chicago in Loves and a Cape Cod vacation is scheduled for the summer. Elliott Lewis has been deluged with since he did the feature narration of Vie oicQ of the horse in Winner's Circle." One wag even sent him a bag of ma I fUdiculojuA A slightly tipsy gentleman walked into the telegraph office, took a pencil, spent three or four minutes in deep thought, and wrote this message to a friend in St.

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Years Available:
1893-1975