03 Dec 1931
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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1931
Page
1
A reflective poem asks if joy can depart with us or if sorrow stays, wondering whether pain outlives happiness. The speaker finds a reversed view of the world, praising departing beauty and unseen paths, recalling missed chances and the shifting frames of memory.
In a Green Forest exchange, Prickly Porky the Porcupine touts contentment as Peter Rabbit quizzes why he travels beyond the Old Brier Patch. Porky argues satisfaction with present food and safety avoids trouble, while Peter notes his many near misses. The tale echoes a moral on contentment versus ambition.
The seven gravest offenses reported to U S police include felonious homicide and its forms murder non negligent manslaughter and manslaughter by negligence rape robbery aggravated assault burglary breaking and entering larceny theft including both over and under fifty dollars thefts and auto theft.
A compact set of home cooking tricks from 1931 covers clarifying soup stock without fat, degreasing with repeated stock dipping, using cheesecloth, absorbing excess salt by adding raw potato, rescuing custard with cornstarch, peeling tomatoes by rubbing, and speeding gelatin set by ice and salt.
An illustrated note describes a rare North American bird reported in northern New York and Ontario. It supposedly perches on mahogany trees to drill for boll weevils, unwinding its neck by rapid body rotation at sunset. The mock factual detail uses Silbert head and body parts as working implements.
A vintage cooking column presents two odd dishes. Pepper relish combines green and red peppers with sugar vinegar and pectin, poured into hot jars to seal. Rolled orange wafers mix butter sugar orange rind and juice with flour and soda, baked thin and rolled while hot for serving.
Ambassador Dawes travels from London to Paris to mediate amid Japan Chinese tensions over Manchuria. He meets Tsuneo Matsudaira and Dr Alfred Sze as Japan presses claims tied to the Chinese Eastern railway. Manchu forces under Ma Chan-shan resist and are driven from Anganchi and Tsitsibar in bitter cold, with heavy casualties reported on both sides.
Turkish decree halts entry of 1000 goods including automobiles, motion picture films, camera films, tires, and radios. Limited quantities allowed in November and December with new quotas set for later months, alarming American exporters already worried about British tariffs.
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