October 19, 2015
Mother Teresa Day

BIRTHDAYS
Mordecai Brown 1876
LaWanda Page 1920
John Le Carré 1931

NEW MAGAZINES
All titles below are new to the store but those with a * are also newly published.

*09/30/15 World of Animals Book of Sharks & Ocean Predators: The ultimate collection of the ocean’s most skilled hunters.
09/30/15 Northwest Tastemaker: Grow · source · cook · eat.
*09/23/15 Luftwaffe: Secret jets of the Third Reich.
*09/21/15 Southern Cast Iron Recipes: 60 cast iron recipes.
*09/21/15 All-In: Where it starts, ends, and where we are now.
*09/23/15 Paula Deen’s Christmas: 118 festive ideas & recipes.

THINGS WE LEARNED FROM READING MAGAZINES TODAY

In Mexico, the musical film “Grease” is titled “Vaselina”.
— November Mental Floss

The house in Grant Wood’s iconic painting “American Gothic” still stands today in Eldon, Iowa.
— 2016 Harris’ Farmer’s Almanac

City Newsstand’s HEADLINE WORLD
As always, 100% T.R.U.E.! (Trumped-up, Reliably Unreliable & Ersatz)

30-YEAR-OLD COCKER SPANIEL STILL GOES FOR A WALK EVERY DAY

OHIO MAN WONDERS HOW HIS IMAGINARY PET GIRAFFE GOT PREGNANT

IRELAND SPIRITS & APPARITIONS UNION VOTES NOT TO ADMIT WEREWOLVES

DRACULA CAN’T UNDERSTAND WHY HIS DENTIST CHARGES HIM MORE FOR CLEANINGS THAN OTHER PATIENTS

STRANGELY BEAUTIFUL WOMAN NEVER GOES ANYWHERE WITHOUT HER PET TARANTULA

 
Weekly Words of Wisdom

Absinthe makes the harp Jane Fonda.

Fictitious Customer of the Week 

Donna DeChico