Drabness That Lies Within A Call To Intellectual Curiosity
Fannie Hurst argues drabness stems from routine and external constraints. The piece urges vigorous curiosity about people, places, and life, claiming imagination and social interest keep life vibrant while praising the powerful inner choice to resist monotony.
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MoMure Newspaper Syndicate
WIN Service
NERE
Caesars
Napoleons
Roosevelts
New York Harbor
Earth
Civility as Practiced by Ordinary Citizen
A Baltimore Sun excerpt describes a casual street encounter where one talks at length about personal health family finances car costs and work while the other asks about nothing in return. The piece notes this self centered behavior leads to the impression of ungraciousness and questions whether the listener truly pays attention.
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Baltimore Sun
Vestment Colors in Episcopal Worship Ledger
The article outlines altar vestment colors in the Episcopal Church. White covers feasts related to the Lord, the Blessed Virgin, non martyr saints, weddings, confirmations, and infant burials. Red marks martyr feasts and Whitsuntide. Green denotes the long Trinity season and non feast days. Violet signals Advent Lent and rogation periods. Black is for Good Friday All Souls and services for the dead.
Dancing Pavilion at Sea Promises Moonlit Boat Romance
A pavilion in Elsinore California built like a boat moves out on a submerged track while the boat rail stays fixed. Dancers enjoy the sea breeze and moonlit atmosphere without leaving the rails, offering a moonlight excursion experience.
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Elsinore
Calif
Goose Returns Home to Mrs. Coe in California
Mrs. Charles Coe of Manteca California reports a domestic goose with a strong homing instinct. She bought a bird from Joe Vinet in Atlanta five miles away, penned it, but it escaped. Dawn found the goose back at Vinet's farm joining the flock after a brief search.
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Charles Coe
Manteca
Calif
Joe Vinet
Atlanta
Vinet
California Cities to Get Cheap Water From Colorado River
Southern California cities led by Los Angeles form the metropolitan water district to back the Boulder Hoover dam aqueduct project. The plan includes 14 cities, a 266 mile crossing, and a $200 million cost with a per taxpayer impact under one cent daily.
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California
Colorado
Los Angeles
Metropolitan Water District
Anaheim
Beverly’ Hills
Burbank
Colton
Fullerton
Glendale
Long Beach
Pasadena
San Bernardino
San Marino
Santa Ana
Santa Monica
Torrance
Southern California
Colorado River
United States Supreme Court
Arizona
Boulder Dam
Boulder Canyon
Parker
California Coastal Plain
Boulder
Hoover—dam
Mottier’s Cook Book Graham Gems Breakfast Bread
A recipe describes making Graham Gems with graham flour sour milk eggs salt soda sugar and shortening. It explains warming shortening beating eggs sugar and raisins then mixing with bread sponge and flour to bake in gem pans.
Bedtime Story About a Clever Wolverine
A short poem describes a wolverine who is very smart and plainly acknowledged for his quick wits. The creature is praised for cleverness yet noted to not always apply it to better ends.
Glutton the Wolverine Foiled by Clever Traps in Far North
A tale set in the Great Woods of the Far North shows Glutton the Wolverine failing to outsmart a crafty trapper. The trapper plants many baited traps by a lake shore, and Glutton trails him eating bait but cannot stop the traps from catching the little people. The scene ends with Glutton stealing bait and pulling up traps as the trapper cycles them.
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Glutton
Wolverine
Green Forest
Buster
Peter Rabbit
Simple Dessert and Pineapple Fruit Crumble
Instructions describe a simple layered dessert with pineapple fruit, cake crumbs, and whipped cream served cold. The text also includes a 1931 Western Newspaper Union note and a whimsical Frost era story featuring Buster Bear and Honker the Goose in the Green Forest.
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Western Newspaper Union
Appointment of William M. Henry as Olympic Sports Technical Director
William M. Henry of Los Angeles is named sports technical director for the 1932 Olympic Games. He will oversee precise technical preparations for fifteen sports and coordinate with international federations, including stadiums, arenas, and water courses where events take place.
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William M. Henry
Los Angeles
Olympic Organizing Committee
Henry
Glutton Outwits Trappers in Curious Tale
In a short anecdote from J. G. Lloyd, Glutton cleverly exposes traps left where all could see, proving his sharp instincts. Buster teases that the trapper would have trouble next time, while Honker confirms the tale’s truth.
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Buster
Honker
J. G. Lloyd
WNU Service
Wild Bill Hickok Fastest Gunman of the Old West
James Butler Hickok known as Wild Bill Hickok was famed as a rapid gunman and held offices, rode for the Pony Express, served as a scout and spy in the Union Army, and was killed in a Deadwood saloon on August 2, 1876 at age thirty nine, by Jack McCall.
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James Butler Hickok
Wild Bill Hickok
Pony Express
Buffalo Bill
Hickok
Deadwood
S. D
Jack McCall
Balloon entertainments at Ranelagh with boxing displays
In early 1800s Ranelagh England a large captive balloon hosted a square platform for entertainments including displays by noted boxers making it a popular spectacle.
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Ranelagh
England
Knowing Nora on Women and Credit Wants
A WNU Service quote attributes to Knowing Nora a view that women seek not just money but credit buying power, suggesting growing appetite for finance options beyond cash. The remark frames shifting consumer expectations with emphasis on credit purchasing in modern life.
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Nora
WNU
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By Fannie Hurst
Graham Gems
By Thornton W. Burgess
Hoover
Dieudonne Coste
Maurice Bellonte
United States
Washington
Paris
France
Lyons
Buster Bear
Paddy Beaver
Graeon
Girligagy
Germany
Berlin
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