A Sudden Hope in a Catskill Letter
A narrator reads Lillian's letter noting an imminent homecoming for Marion and Robert's European trip. The date hints at a planned dinner and apartment move, prompting the narrator to improvise plans as a home din ner challenge looms while a mysterious doorway offers a clue.
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Lillian
Robert
Europe
New York
Tubes
Marion
Robert Savarin
Mrs. Cosgrove
Catskill Mountain
Dicky
Braithwaites
Illian
Harriet Braithwaite
Edwin
Betty
Odd Facts From Antiquity And Nature
A collection of curiosities notes a Cicero reedman inventing shorthand to record the Catalinian oration in 63 B C. It also cites a nightingale’s song heard a mile away, Eratosthenes measuring Earth 245 B C, cocoanut palms living 109 to 700 years, date palms 200 to 300, and the Aztec year of eighteen months.
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Cicero
Covay's Fashion3 Weds by Vera Winston
The article notes fashion trends with pleats and frills dominating blouses. It describes a top linen blouse in oyster white with blue linen straps, square neck, and double frill, plus a lower blouse in heavy white rep with a mannish front and pearl buttons, accented by black taffeta.
Love Me by Juanita Hamel
The piece highlights the ingenuity of lovers and the persistence of expressing affection. It notes how barriers vanish before determined suitors and even a parrot can become a messenger, echoing the universal plea to be loved.
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Newspaper Feature Service, Inc
Winifred Black recalls the revampers homeward journey
A nostalgic scene of families and youth traveling in khaki for summer travels. Cars, flivvers, and packed camps show restless roving. children miss school while recalling mountain lakes forests and inns like the Inn of the Silver Moon.
Our Camping Days and the Night in the Pines
A reflective note on summer camping and nature's calm. The narrator recalls sleeping under pines, the North Star, moonlit lakes, and ferns in ecstasy. A hospital patient speaks of pain eased by camping memories and Mother Nature as comforting mother. The piece honors nature’s enduring influence.
Treat Your Eye When a Foreign Body Enters It
Advice on safe eye care warns against using sharp tools to remove objects. If visible, use clean hands or water, and seek medical guidance. Emphasizes sterilization, proper lid manipulation, and avoiding self surgery to protect sight.
Stale Bread Recipes Inspire Frugal Dishes
The Home Kitchen presents old fashioned uses for stale bread through desserts and breads pudding ideas. Glorified Bread Pudding Chocolate Brown Betty Tropical Pudding Brown Bread Ice Cream English Pudding and Linen pie dish with pineapple jam plus a lemon meringue finish.
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Betty
Benny and Mr Mole Discover a Garden Channel
Benny spots a dirt ridge in his garden and confronts a mischievous Mr Mole. Happy Grey and a tiny friend intervene, revealing the tunnels water roots and hide for Mr Mole. Benny learns the ridges serve purpose, and the pair part on friendly note, ending the scene with Mole departing.
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Benny
Mr. Mole
Happy Grey'es
Pahaw
Renny
Littl
Elso
Henny Bly
Happy Gisaries
Tonny
Dow
Alee
Lim
Happy Glagles
Gigseles
Ina
Words of Wise Men and Moral Maxims
A collection of aphorisms on music virtue necessity and manners. It cites Shakespeare and Cowper and warns against needless formality and the careless handling of others property. It notes the paradox of solitude and the value of remembrance for good deeds.
Advice to Girls Ape Annie Laurie Era Column
A widow of 26 writes of her situation with a baby daughter and her engagement to a young man seeking guidance. The fragment reflects a plea for social and romantic counsel typical of advice columns.
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Ape Annie Laurie
Tomorrow's Horoscope Adverse Astral Sways Writings and Contracts
Tomorrow's horoscope warns of adverse astral conditions affecting writings contracts and bargaining. Sign papers carefully avoid disputes and misrepresentation. A reader seeks guidance on love and marriage dilemmas with a note on responsibility and prudence.
Beauty Ways to Banish Sunburn Swiftly
Lucrezia Bori explains simple home remedies to fade sunburn and yellow neck stains. She endorses buttermilk and a hydrogen peroxide mix as facial and neck whiteners, warns against applying to fresh sunburn, and advises gentle cleansing with witch hazel before treating.
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Lucrezia Bori
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Earth
Sratoshenes
B. C
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Vera Winston
Juanita Hamel
Winifred Black
Silver Moon
Royal S. Copeland
M. D
United States
New York City
An. Ros
J.G. Q
Jeannette Young Norton
Aries Sind
Neve Harnsan
Shakespeare
Cowper
Annie Laurie
Genevieve Kemble
Y. Ei
Laurte
Liesus
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