Curious family riddle reveals colors and duties
Fragmented text presents a family tableau where a narrator explains roles and care routines families share. The grandfather’s voice hints at simple tasks like keeping people dry and warm, with color references used to describe preferences. The piece reads like a cryptic, domestic vignette about belonging and everyday work.
Guess What They Are The Riddling Objects
A playful riddle piece edited by Dorothy Edmonds presents a group of items described as fragile yet essential. Narratives invite readers to identify objects that weather storms and provide daily support, emphasizing materials, colors, care, and shared human connections.
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Ecole
Roast Stuffed Spareribs and Other Dishes from 1933
Colonial kitchen notes offer Pork Roast Spareribs stuffed with Onion Filling and baked. English Chicken Salad uses fowl with parsley thyme marjoram bay leaf and bacon. Spanish Beans simmered navy beans with tomato onion pepper molasses mustard and pork. Hot Cranberry Ham Sandwiches feature toasted ham with cranberry sauce and cheese. Western Newspaper Union 1933.
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Western Newspaper Union
How It Started By Jean Newton S Everybodys Kissing And Choice
The piece argues that the expression kissing goes by favor reflects bias in office selection rather than merit. It traces etymology linking kiss to choose across Anglo Saxon and Germanic roots, noting semantic ties between reward and favor in language.
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Bel Syndicate
WNU Service
Most College Girls Tell Mothers All
A Columbia University study by Dr Eugene Andrus Leonard reports 66 percent of co ed interviewees at Syracuse University discuss love affairs with mothers. He notes 31 percent have had no love affairs, though this may be unlikely.
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New York
Columbia University
Eugene Andrus Leonard
Syracuse University
The Half and Half Puzzle
A 1933 Western Newspaper Union puzzle shows mixed parts that can form six different objects when correctly paired. Instructions suggest cutting out the pieces to assemble the valid configurations.
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Western Newspaper Union
Yaqui Language Last Speaker Studied by UC Scholar
Ralph Moore, a full blood Yaqui living in Round Valley, is described as the last speaker of the Yaqui tongue. Dr. Alfred L. Kroeber of the University of California anthropology department has studied Moore for years, recording the language and arguing the Yaqui survive as an ancient people. Moore is depicted as strong, intelligent, married to a Wallaki woman with two children.
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Berkeley
Calif
Ralph Moore
Round Valley
Mendocing County
AL L. Kroeber
University of California Anthropology Department
Moore
Doctor Kroeber
Kroeber
Lights of New York and a Rainy Street Revelation
A fragmented reminiscence describes lights on Broadway and a car encounter during a rainstorm. A narrator notes motor noises, a stalled vehicle, and a tense moment as a neighbor’s coupe appears ahead, illuminating the scene with nearby house lights.
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Lights of
New York
Tiasnen
Phim
Trate
Tre
Widespread Worry, Beauty, and a Driveway Sleep Tale
A muddled column humorously contrasts national worry with personal concerns as Franklin Roosevelt’s leadership is invoked. It jokes about dating beauty in New York and features a man who drifts to sleep in his car after a lonely drive, a Bell Syndicate piece from 1933.
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Our Fair Land
Franklin Roosevelt
America
New York
Fannie Hurst
Manhattan
Preserve Cookies and Clean Silks with Everyday Tips
A reader offers home guidance on keeping cookies fresh by adding half an apple, removing water spots from silk by rubbing hands together, and airing breads with white flour to prevent mold. It also describes cleaning a discolored coffee pot using oxalic acid crystals with a two to three hour soak, then washing with hot water and soap.
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Associated Newspapers
No News Day Echoes Quiet in Local Paper
Reader notes no major stories appear in today’s edition. The page shows light content with small notices and routine items. No scandals or notable events reported this edition.
Indiana Briefs From Across The State
Indiana brief notes report deaths injuries and local incidents across counties. Included are drownings collisions and burns, a fatal train incident, a man’s suicide after his wife’s death, a fox hunt result, and legislative and educational policy updates from Indianapolis and East Chicago.
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Arthur de Divan
Mercudise
Sallivrnt
Ireait
Sulilvin
Isaac Way
Shoals
United States
Pooane
Charles Eiselick
Little Cedar Lake
Colombia
Pan Birkla
Que Elebteen
Fredonia
Milltown
Fulton County
Frank Wolf
Lake Manitou
Isherman Gahide
Indiana University Extension Center
Chicago
National Methodist Association of Hospitals
Indianapolis
Claypool Hotel
Retail Lumber Dealers’ Association of Indiana
James W. Wayman
Brownstown
Wayman
Jackson
Daviess
Arthur N. Stephens
Gary
Plymouth
Virgil Barber
Arnold Pratt
Sini Man
Armstrong
Center
Scott
Harrison Wallace
Huntington
Paul V. McNutt
General Assembly
Madison County
Walter Vermillion
A. T. Rowe
Anderson
Samuel J. Copeland
Farmer
Posey County
George Gray
Kokomo
Pennsylvania
Greenfield
Patricia Smyth
Pennsylvania Railroads
New Yorker
Hobart
Dennis Monahan
Patricia
James Smyth
Eureka College
Bloomington
Clyde TL. Lyon
Indiana
Senate
Thurmann
A. Gottschalk
Dem
Adams, Blackford and Wells
State Board of Tax Commissioners
Supreme Court
Benton County Circuit Court
State Tax Board
White County
Philip Zoercher
State Board
Indiana Bankers’ Association
Claypool Istel
Lincoln link to early Norfolk landholders emerges
Antiquarian research notes a possible Abraham Lincoln ancestor holding land in Norfolk in the early 1700s. A Times report records 1726 actions by Abraham Lincoln and Sara to Garboldisham and Aldeby lands with Isaac Lincoln Edward Rush and Lydia to Sir Edmund Bacon.
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Lincoln
Mayland
Abrahan
Ecoln
Ty JO B. Ansell
Society of Genealogists
Abraham Lincoln
Dand
Norfolk
Times
Sara
Isaac Lincoln
Edward Rush
Lydia
Garboldisham
Aldery
Norfall
Edmund Bacon
End Serious Coughs With Creomulsion
A vintage advertisement touts Creomulsion as a powerful yet safe cough remedy claiming seven modern science aids. It promises quick germ relief without narcotics and offers a money back guarantee if the cough or cold not relieved. A stray proverb about poverty and love closes the ad.
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