The Kingfisher’s Home and Billy Mink’s Prey
Peter the rabbit senses danger as Billy Mink stalks the kingfishers in the sandbank hole. Rattles the kingfisher returns with a fish, vanishes, and Billy begins to climb, hoping to reach the vulnerable youngsters before the parent returns. Peter laments but cannot intervene as the natural hunt unfolds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birds
Rattles
Peter
Billy Mink
Billy
Rattles the Kingfisher
Bily
T. W. Burgess
WNU Service
Unusual Butter Recipes From 1932 Western Newspaper Union
A brief from 1932 presents three butter recipes Herb Butter Horseradish Butter and Green Butter. Each uses fresh butter with herbs or spice to enhance flavor, suggesting serving ideas with lamb, steak, fish, or greens.
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Western Newspaper Union
Greatest Athlete Jim Bausch Wins Olympic Decathlon Title
Jim Bausch of Kansas won the decathlon at the Los Angeles Olympic Games with a world leading 8,462.23 points, the highest total in the ten-event competition to date.
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Jim Bausch
Los Angeles
Jim
Kansas
Kitty McKay by Nina Wilcox Putnam headlined tale
A 1982 feature presents Kitty McKay by Nina Wilcox Putnam. The snippet hints at a dialog about headaches and suggests a serialized or illustrated format from Bell Syndicate via WNU Service.
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Kitty McKay
Nina Wilcox
Bell Byndicate
WNU
Pop Bread The World Has But Still Kneads
A 1932 WNU Service item from the Ball Syndicate presenting a fragmentary, witty quip about bread and need. It captures a light, worldwise joke attributed to Dada era humor and cross-cultural wordplay.
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Ball Syndicate
WNU
Humorous Tidbits From Examination Papers
A compilation of quaint BONERS from exams and essays during the Napoleonic era. The text mocks language usage with lines about railroads watering stock and sarcastic definitions. It references Lady Macbeth, Mussolini and poetic forms with playful misdirection.
Walker defense opens as Roosevelt hears testimony
James J. Walker’s defense resumes before Governor Roosevelt with witnesses testifying to Walker’s integrity. The hearing, held through night sessions, works through charges from removal proceedings while tandem stories cover Hoover’s postwar conference aims and the outlook for political shifts.
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Ayor
James J. Walker
Roosevelt
Walker
John J. Curtin
Supreme Court
Staley
Henry Epstein
Attorney General
City Taxi Board of Control
L. F. Loree
The
Delaware and Hudson Railroad
J. A. Sisto
J. A. Sisto Which Is the Basis of One of Mr. Seabury
Board of Control
Paul Block
Block
John J. Hastings
Walker Group
W. Kingsland Macy
Trimmed With Beaver by Matilda on bathing sun
Matilda observes a coming day when girls no longer peel away to bathe in the sun. The comment reflects mature reflection on social norms and youth by a female voice.
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Matilda
Bound to Clear Poem by Douglas Malloch
A 1932 Douglas Malloch poem from the WNU Service portrays Tom Wall as unfazed by bad weather. He believes the skies will clear and preparation, like building a bin, will pay off when harvest comes. The piece celebrates grit and optimism amid rain and hardship.
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Tom Wall
Tom
Douglas Malloch
WNU
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Thiepval
France
Somme
Prince of Wales
BY Thornton W. Burgess
Dada
Bea
Lady Macbeth
Mussolini
Bel! Syndicate
Farmers’ Strike
Hoover
Edward W. Pickard
Sfredd B. Smith
Democratic Party
Outlook
Theodore Roosevelt
Frank Tichenor
Spur
Aero Digest
Henry Ward Beecher
Lyman Abbott
Independent
H. C. Bowen
A. E. Smith
Middle West
Iowa
Nebraska
Omaha
Iowa-Nebraska Co-Operative Milk Association
Lincoln
Wsconsin
Minnesota
Cornell Bluffs
White House
United States
Treasury Mills
Eugene Meyer
Federal Reserve Board
Atlee Pomerene
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Ralph D. Chapin
Franklin W. Fort
Home Loan Bank Board
Paul Bestor
Federal Reserve
Outh Trimble
House of Representatives
Steagall
House Banking Committee
Trimble
Congressman Treadway
Massachusetts
Garner
House
South Trimble
Ongressman
Shannon
South Bend
Ind
Uncle Sam
Association of Railwayslxecutives
Inland Waterways Corporation
Mississippi
Ands
Warrior
Itnals
F. Truber Davison
Who
New York
Germany
Beuthen
Upper Silesia
Adolf Hitler
von Papen
Reich
Beubhen
Naazi
Hitler
National Socialist Movement
Retch
Prussia
Myron C. Taylor
United States Steel Corporation
Ohio
Ilinois
Indiana
Alabama
Pennsylvania
Taylor
Technocracy
Columbia University
O8don
Ingrid
Sweden
Copenhagen
Gustaf of
Coburg
Stockholm
Cart
James A. Moliaison
Great Britain
Roosevelt Field
Recordi
Derson
Atlantic
Ireland
St. John
N. B
Franz von Papen
Prined
Wales
Girligag IP
Bell Syndicate
By Douglas Malloch
King George
Kise Georg
England
Royal Pary
Royal Southampton Yacht Club
Cowes
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