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Newspaper
Brimfield News
Location
Brimfield, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1933
Page
7
A reflective verse notes a day when life feels flat and unfulfilling yet ends with hope. The speaker recalls weary moments, compares them to a lake without waves and a path without flowers, and affirms that tomorrow will bring renewed sight and blossoms after one of those days.
A collage of antiquated terms and trivia from 1933 includes Solon as a Judah king and psalmist, humorous exam tidbits, anachronism definitions, etiquette bits, Edward Bok tax aid, and notes on Keats, Oglethorpe, Xerxes, a Chinese temple pedogogue, plus a Bell Syndicate/WNU Service item about 800 Senate staffers and patronage to appointed secretaries and stenographers.
Jerry Muskrat digs a cellar and a network of tunnels before raising his house above Smiling Pool. He methodically shelters the entrance, reaches deep water, and links chambers to survive floods. He works while Peter Rabbit impatiently watches, emphasizing preparedness and safety.
A feature outlines several inventive sandwiches. Pate de Foie Gras uses goose liver paste on toast or canape. Deviled Egg Sandwich blends yolks with olive oil lemon juice mustard paprika and tabasco on rye or white bread. Fried Egg Sandwich adds onion and butter between slices. A chicken and onion sandwich mixes finely chopped chicken with seasonings for a simple, savory option.
The article discusses club choice in rough turf noting golfers hesitate to use spoons on cuppy lies or deep clover. It explains straight faced irons perform poorly from heavy grass due to lubrication and lack of spin, while spoons grip the surface better, lift the ball higher, and provide more leftward flight with a quicker, controlled roll.
A fragmentary family note claims a cat named Ruffles as part of the lineage tracing the region’s oldest feline line. The statement references a Prond content der context and a long ancestral chain to the line of Beenaally ir and the oldest cat in New England.
A brief recipe note from Western Newspaper Union outlines making a curried egg sandwich by frying onions in butter, thickening with flour and milk, adding curry powder and eggs, then spreading on buttered bread. It also describes an egg with mushroom spread using mushrooms, hard cooked egg, sweet cream, and buttered bread.
In West Virginia twenty eight farmers wives formed the Mountain State Tourists Home cooperative under the extension service. Members post uniform signs and distribute advertising folders. Last year over six thousand visitors from forty states and several nations stayed one to several days, paying lodging and meals at modest rates.
A New York World Telegram column argues women should head national finance, praising Nel Tayloe Ross as Director of the Mint and claiming women save money, manage households, and could run the country on far less than men. The piece humorously envisions women directing large expenditures with fiscal thrift.
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