Cats on a Payroll in National Service
A look at government cats across agencies and the army, from New Haven and New York post offices to commissary depots, earning annual pay and fed with beef, milk, or fish. Cats serve as mousers, guards, and mascots in civil and military posts, with Budgets and bids for their rations.
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United States
Pittsburg
Manila
Toby
Fritz
New Haven Postoffice
New York
Uncle Sam
Army
War Department
The Cocoanut Palm A One Hundred Uses Tree
The cocoanut palm is native to tropical regions. It grows sixty to ninety feet tall with a crown of large leaves. It provides food oil toddy leaves coir fiber and timber and its various parts supply cups utensils rope mats and decorative wood known as porcupine wood.
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Chicago News
Emerald
Pacific
West Indian
Philippines
Madagascar
Indian Ocean
Terence the Irish Terrier Guards a Child in Dover Fire
A Dover family tells of Terence an Irish terrier who slept outside the room with a cistern nearby. When a November fire broke out beneath the younger girl’s chamber the dog barked and saved the room by diving into the cistern and soaking the bed area, shielding the child until firemen arrived.
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Detroit News
Terence
Dover
Dot and Jack Befriend a Baby Robin in Cherry Tree
In a cherry tree home live Father and Mother Robin with four babies. Two children stand at the foot of the tree watching the robins at breakfast. They rescue a fallen baby robin and place it back in the nest. From that day the robins and children become friends.
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Robin
Mother Robin
Jack
Ittle
Dot
The King of Unsergarten Goes to Battle
A playful ballad describes the King of Unsergarten marching with trumpet shield sword and bow along a gravel path. He fires arrows into ambush trees and parades around corners before his wooden sword rests in the sun after the war article ends.
Garden Pets in the City Bring Joy and Life
A Philadelphia Record column extols urban garden pets, focusing on a hoptoad named Happy and a brood of ladybugs. It celebrates children tending plants, observing insects, and enjoying butterflies, hummingbirds, and other garden visitors, arguing city kids gain health and happiness from outdoor grow-ventures.
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Heaven
Names of Flowers and Their Eponymous Roots
The article explains how flowers got their names with examples. Fuchsias honor Leonard Fuchs, Dahlias honor Andre Dahl, camelia recalls missionary Kamel, Magnolias honor Prof Magnol de Montpeliier, Anemones derive from a word about trembling, and lavender from Latin lavare meaning to wash.
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New Orleans Times-Democrat
Fuchsias
Leonard Fuchs
Andre Dahl
Peru
Kamel
France
Japan
Magnol de Montpeliier
America
Asia
You are just the same kind of a cat you were yesterday
Eight year old Ethel tries to make a cat imitate a dog and gets scratched. After a scolding, she repeats the attempt and again suffers the cat's claws. She proclaims the cat is the same kind as yesterday.
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Philadelphia
Baby
Ethel
Humor From a Physiology Class
A teacher asks Johnnie for an example of the body adapting to change. Johnnie replies with a joke about his aunt who gained fifty pounds in a year and did not crack, illustrating the idea humorously.
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Johnnie
Her Way or Suit Yourself
A humorous exchange features a lady advising Alice who sobs loudly. Alice defiantly claims she cries in her own way, insisting bon-hoo expresses her emotion.
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Alice
Market as a Vast Fair with Blind Creatures
The speaker visits a market described as a vast fair with live displays such as pigeons rabbits and bright fish though the creatures are described as blind or immobile. A blurred-eyed deer and a beautiful bird are observed, provoking a quiet, uncanny scene where touch and closeness feel insufficient to bring happiness.
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Kindergarten Review
Unsergarten
King of
Ecitpry Garden
Judge Library
Harper's Magazine
P!nk
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