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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1929
Page
8
Winifred Black recalls a tired shop girl in a crowded streetcar who wears one good shoe and one tan shoe. As she notices the mismatch the girl blushes, hides the tan shoe, and everyone nearby laughs at her embarrassment. The piece asks if knowledge changes how we view people we think we know.
The author notes a social trend of people shunning cucumbers while enjoying pickles and asks if cucumbers are indigestible. It claims cucumbers can be hard to digest when old and seedy, and suggests concern over public slander of cucumbers’ edibility.
A HB girl tennis enthusiast is shown in a white costume featuring a croft knitted blouse with abbreviated sleeves, worn tucked under or over a fitted white flannel skirt. The article also discusses cucumber selection and preparation, including dressings and a cucumber saute recipe.
Helpful hints describe soaking yellowed garments in cold water with cream of tartar to whiten them. Another tip suggests sprinkling fried cola potatoes with flour to aid browning. A third note mentions making a floor polish by melting candle ends and mixing with turpentine.
An overview of Manchuria as part of China detailing its history from Nurhachu’s rise to power, the Manchu influence on culture and dress, the creation of a written language, and its division into Heilunkiang Kirin and Fengteinw with twenty six ports, highlighting Mukden as a key city.
A travel note guides American visitors to Manchuria highlighting the Vishskin Tartars along the Hurka to Ussuri section. It describes their salmon fishing, clothing made from salmon skins, and compares Manchuria’s commercial life to southern ports while noting enduring regional tensions and past wars.
A column features readers seeking dating guidance. A college freshman seeks ease talking with a lawyer-in-training, advised to let him lead conversations and overcome self consciousness. Another reader asks how to handle an old college engagement while family ties complicate matters. advice urges tact, limited invitations, and preserving friendship. A final note warns a young reader to follow parental guidance until adulthood.
Dr Royall S Copeland outlines how hidden scurvy from vitamin C deficiency can affect infant teeth development. He explains the usual eruption order from six months to two years, the link with rickets and nourishment, and the importance of maternal diet and daily vitamin C rich juices.
In a travel tale, Hanid explains Greek gods to five shadow-children in Greece. Mij and Mir ask about Jove and Juno, Diana, Mars, Apollo, Saturn, Cupid, Minerva, Hercules, Venus and Mercury, with Mercury misidentified as god of thermometers. Copyright 1929, Newspaper Feature Service.
According to planetary influences this day may bring conflicting situations and incidents. Personal contacts seem pleasant but employment risk and financial hazards loom with possible delays and disappointments. Social activities offer compensation while a bright but challenging outlook affects births, prosperity, and artistic ties.
In a Woods near the Sea a nurselike narrator recalls a night of danger linked to Prince Georges assassination plot. Mary and Noel flee as Veritzen reassures a wary confidant amid farmhouse military guard and a tense, whispered warning. Copyright 1920, Newspaper Feature Service, Tas.
The excerpt blends maxims on fame, poetry, forgiveness, deceit, ambition, and domestic happiness. It cites Landor, Lytton, Horace, Watts, Shakespeare, and Taylor to contrast prudent leadership with enthusiastic reform, the necessity and limits of poetry, and the costs of dishonesty and disloyalty.
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