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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1929
Page
6
A witty item contrasts clever versus smart women and notes social quirks around dress and calls from elusive suitors. It moves to Amar’s obsessive love, romantic fantasies, and the idea that balance between self belief and action matters. The piece ends with quips on training, talent, and self-contradiction.
The tale features Grandfather Porky Pig and Brother Bacon debating the meaning of the line grunt grunt. Grandfather asks for clarity while Brother Bacon asserts the remark is interesting and suggests earnest fun, hinting at broader musings on creatures and speech.
A pig narrator touts thrift and authenticity in speech, praising simple words like grunt and squeal over grand airs. The piece contrasts genuine expression with pretentious talk and lauds the pig's view of wealth as private and practical. It features Grandfather Porky and Brother Bacon as expressive voices.
Nellie Maxwell shares summer recipes including Pickled Fish with a vinegar salt and spice brine, Russian Rocks cookies using brown sugar butter eggs and cinnamon, Best Doughnuts with sour milk and lard, and apple corn meal delights served with syrup, dating from 1929 Western Newspaper Union.
The poem by Douglas Malloch notes that the world is full of honest men who pay their debts yet cheat human hearts and themselves. It laments that even upright people misguide others and overlook the harm caused to loved ones and their own souls.
The article traces the custom of leaving call cards from Sixteenth century Italy to Padua’s German students and even Chinese practices. It explains how cards with names were left when hosts were absent, evolving into the European personal card tradition and social secretary role.
A reflective piece urges forgetting painful memories to ease life’s bitterness. It cites Macbeth on cleansing the heart and extols forgiving as true love. The text urges self-improvement through gentleness, cheer, bravery, and serving others, ending with a devotional verse orchestrated for daily betterment.
The Rabbit's Foot Superstition traces belief in rabbits as omens from ancient Britons divining by rabbits to witchcraft lore. It notes Caesar and medieval views on rabbits as magical beings and explains why a rabbit crossing one’s path was deemed unlucky, affecting progress and fate. The piece connects past superstition to modern American farming views.
Many suffer indigestion from an acid condition that can be fixed in minutes. Phillips Milk of Magnesia restores digestion, reduces gourness and gas after meals, and prevents distress two hours after eating. A pleasant, effective antacid unlike temporary soda relief.
At a social tea in Annandale a prominent matron introduces her new baby son. Her five year old daughter, asked about the infant, quips that she is glad it is a boy because her father was becoming too soft with just her mother and him. The remark reflects playful family dynamics and social wit.
A Hollywood ten speculation records Elinor Glyn arguing that a daring dress may not prove a wife’s virtue. A wife asks what people would say if she attended a mask ball in tights. John replies that such attire would suggest he married for money.
A dialogue snippet shows an executive pressed for time directing the secretary to handle a meeting with a photographer. A doctor asks about symptoms while a patient describes needing spectacles, highlighting a missing eye care moment.
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