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THE BLUE BONNET
SHIP'S LAUNDRY
THE TAILOR SHOP
Are you a wall flower? Do your
shipmates avoid you? Are you a failure in Hamburger Canyon? If so read
on, you can't afford to miss this wonderful opportunity to make yourself a
social success.
Presenting for your edification, that
Tailor of Tailors,
All that is necessary is to look at
your clothes and then ask yourselfdo they have that "Tattle-tale" gray
look?
The HOUSTON "Snow White"
Laundry will assure your social success by its rapid. efficient and modern
methods of laundering clothes. No
more dingy "Tattle-tale" grey. Your
clothes will have that dazzling whiteness that only the "Snow White"
Laundry can produce.
During the month of February we
are giving away absolutely free with
each bundle of laundry that amazing
new parlor game. Just invite your
friends over then open up your laundry bundle and everyone can settle
down for an evening's enjoyment of
"Button, button, who's got the button."
The "Snow White" Laundry has received the following testimonial, absolutely unsolicited on our part:
Boot: "Do you use the ship's laundry?"
CMAA: "No, I wear them once and
tear them up myself."
When your clothes are dirty and it
puts you in a tight spot see "Snow
White" Bacon or one of his four
dwarfs, now showing .just around the
corner from "Ginsberg's place."
President Roosevelt used the HOUSTON laundry, why don't you?
Commencing Monday, 24 January,
the laundry will wash blues every
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday for twenty-five cents a suit.
This doesn't include pressing.
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Tightwad: "My lad, are you to be
my caddie?"
Caddie: "Yes Sir."
Tightwad: "And how are you at
finding lost balls?"
Caddie: "Very good Sir."
Tightwad: "Well, look around and
find one so we can start the game."
U.S.S. Houston-1-22-38-900.
~ That presser of pressers, that fixer
of fixers,
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That man who put the "gin" in
Ginsberg
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"Ginsberg the Tailor Man"
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Now located in that friendly little
store
~ Just around the corner from the
Laundry.
Do you have spots before your eyes?
Are they on your clothes? If so patronize your neighbor tailor. A cleaning and pressing will do wonders
for a suit that has that "Morning
After" look.
Give your clothes a break by giving them that distinctive "Ginsberg
Look."
Increasing activity on the part of
forces afloat in
the training of
enlisted men for
advancement in
rating is indicated by the fact that 65,753 training
courses and 45,031 courses of a general nature were issued during the
year. This is an increase of 92.6 percent over the number issued during
the fiscal year 1936.
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The Tapir of Africa does not swim
across rivers, but instead, walks to the
other side on the bottom.
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With the coming of the summer
months we are presenting for the first
time a new and unique service.
The first survey for an Isthmanian
Canal in Panama was made by Spain
in 1534.
Are you one of those poor unfortunates who, when mixing a "scotch
and ?" step on the fiz bottle only to
have the soda go down one side of the
glass and out the other finally coming
to rest on your best trousers (mostly
in a most embarrassing spot)? If you
are you probably know that it never
dries? Your tailor knows the answer.
By a secret process handed down thru
the ages, we can not only dry them
but give them that "Ginsberg Look"
in nothing flat and for but a small
part of a dollar.
Bear in mind that when patronizing
your neighbor tailor that "You could
do worse!"
Between 1917 and 1919 the Navy had
ships made of concrete. These ships
were actually used as transports and
were seaworthy, although sailors lacked confidence in them and sometimes
refused to do duty aboard them. The
method of construction was similar
to that used in constructing modern
buildings, that is, using metal rods
and pouring the concrete by means of
molds. There were only a few of these
built.
We will close with a rendition of
our alma mater:
You wear 'em
We fix and repair 'em
So present them to our little nook,
With a press and smile,
and in a short while,
We will give them that "Ginsberg
Look"!
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THE SURE FOOTED FELINE
(Answer
Fifty-two feet was the distance covered by the cat in its ribbon-like course
around the rolling log.
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NAUTICAL NOVELTIES
1.. To sprinkle and swab down, as a
deck in hot weather.
2. To slack off gradually.
3. Deeper forward than aft.
4. To heave or lie to, or to come to an
anchorage.
5. An order meaning sufficient.
6. To cast adrift or untie.
7. To ascertain the proper course to
be steered to make the desired point
or port.
8. To turn a vessel with a line.
9. An order to cease.
10. To take apart or to remove from
its place.