Ramparts We Watch Quote by Angelo Patri on Liberty
An excerpt from Angelo Patri urging civic duty and sacrifice as foundational to American liberty. It proclaims freedom earned by past generations and calls today’s youths to readiness to serve, emphasizing that liberty requires sacrifice and continual renewal.
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Valley Forge
Angelo Patri
Easy Chicks Promote Largest Production Sexed Pullets
Dixte Poultry Farms in Hrenham Texas offers ROP sired chicks at prices no higher than common chicks. Catalog free. ROP sires are out of 232 to 312 hens.
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R.O.P
Southwest
Dixte Poultry Farms
Hrenham
Texas
A Monthly Hobby Page Idea For 1941
A note from Aunt Mary requests reader letters to share hobbies on the Boys and Girls page, seeks majority approval, and invites February as General Washington’s anniversary to inspire character. A short anonymous poem about friendship and duty is included from Miss Anna Mae Colon of Agra Oklahoma.
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George Washington
Anna Mae Colon
Agra
Oklahoma
Friendly Hobby Club Seeks Two Hundred Chapters in Southwest
An appeal invites readers to join the Friendly Hobby Club with no dues and a choice of departments including Correspondence and Stamp Exchange. Entries prize logic and originality and must be mailed by February 20, 1941 to Fort Worth, Texas.
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Southwest
Marty
Ashland Street
Fort Worth
Texas
Hobby Club
Aunt Mary
Ashland
Should Parents Select the Occupation of Their Child
A community page presents a monthly prompt asking readers to argue for or against parental selection of a child’s future occupation. Entry rules emphasize logic over stance with prizes for top responses.
Nut Family Walnut Dolls Bring Cozy Winter Craft Fun
A detailed guide to making Nut Family dolls from walnuts and simple materials. Create head and body from two walnuts, connect with a lollipop stick, add arms and legs with holes and wire, wrap with tissue and crepe paper, paint facial features, and dress the dolls. Include hair with rope, attach wood feet, and display until glue dries.
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Mary
First Rainbow Breaks the Gray World
In a primordial world only gray birds filled the sky and land. Then a single rainbow appeared, an extraordinary color that changed everything and sparked wonder among the inhabitants.
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Earth
Rainbow Colors Shared By Birds Moral Tale
A king of birds gathers colors from each bird to paint earth with rainbow hues. When the little gray finch waits its turn, all colors seem gone, so the birds share their colors to clothe the finch in a full rainbow. The tale praises unselfishness and communal generosity.
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King of Birds
A Day of Your Life
A summary of daily human activity lists metrics for a typical adult over 24 hours. It cites heartbeats, blood travel, breaths, air intake, food and liquid consumption, waste loss, perspiration, heat, energy, speech, movement, and minor body growth measures attributed to S. B. Whitehead in Lilliput.
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S. B. Whitehead
Lilliput
Deepest Restaurant Serves Cavern Diners Daily
The cafeteria at the 700 foot level of Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico feeds up to 1000 visitors each day. A constant cavern temperature of 56 degrees requires preheating coffee cups for guests.
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Carlsbad Caverns
New Mexico
Mystery founder of agriculture praised as humankinds greatest benefactor
Condensed from a radio program, a nameless ancient innovator is credited with discovering agriculture. The piece hails the unidentified savior who taught humans to plant seeds, stay to cultivate land, and build permanent shelters, ending the hunter gatherer era.
Hearst Art Collection Goes on Exhibition and Sale in NYC
The Hearst collection, valued between 15 million and 50 million dollars, features 15000 objects spanning antiquity to the 19th century. Highlights include tapestries furniture gold and silver jewelry arms and armor, and even whole rooms from European castles, with a 110 volume catalogue after two years of preparation.
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William Randolph Hearst
New York City
Hearst
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