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Presents news briefs on developments around the U.S. as of November 1941. Decision of the General Hospital in Los Angeles, California to replace its dishes with fiber plates; Type of sign erected along the highway of Salt Lake City, Utah; Law passed in Tallahassee, Florida about car accidents caused by cows.

Focuses on the strategy used by publisher Manchester Boddy to revive the newspaper "Illustrated Daily News" in Los Angeles, California in 1926. Improvements made by Boddy to the editorship of the newspaper; Actions taken by Boddy to obtain control of the paper; Career background of Boddy.

The article relates the author's experience on his trip with a group of prisoners sentenced to serve at California State Penitentiary in San Quentin. He cites that deputy F. P. Dickerson went from seat to seat and fitted the leg chains on each prisoner's ankle. He narrates that some of the prisoners could not comfortably sleep because of the leg chains fitted on them. He states that prisoners and their commitment papers were turned over by Dickerson to the receiving office of the California State Penitentiary.

The article relates veteran Lee Anderson's experiences on turning a desert of Coachella Valley into acres of date palm gardens in California. Lee and his wife started desert farming with only 600 dollars in cash. In order to protect his crops from moisture and birds, Anderson covers date clusters with paraffined paper bags. The once worthless land now brings 2,000 dollars to 4,000 dollars an acre to the Anderson family.

The article focuses on Ilona Bensczko Selle, a columnist and one of the most influential woman in San Francisco, California. She has contact with countless people during war and her fanatical followers of a morning paper know her as "Miss Fixit". They regarded her as the soother of homesick souls, unraveler of torturous problems and the general minister to the needs of fouled-up General Infantry officer. All these descriptions, she hopes someday to cease her laborious job and rest for years.

The article relates the experience of L.R. Batman, a contributing author for the periodical "The Saturday Evening Post," in settling down in California and Oregon. He studied at Stanford University and bought the weekly newspaper "Niles." He sold his paper and bought another one in Oregon, the "Central Oregonian." The large amount of snow in Oregon prompted him to sell "Central Oregonian" and went again to California.