Face as a Tablet of the Soul in McClure Syndicate Essay
In a 1923 McClure Syndicate piece by F. A. Walker the human countenance is framed as a sealed package and open volume revealing inner emotions. The essay contrasts sunny child faces with aged ones, notes how tears and pallor speak where words fail, and argues time writes the soul on the face as life seeks elusive pleasure.
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McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Mustache Idol: A Man Ready for War and Weds
A humorous prospectus humorously profiles a man with a tiny mustache who adores golf polo players and cavalry, joking he would fight instantly if war returned. The piece presents him as eager and willing, but cautions that mustaches are not proof of a suitable husband.
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United States
Ordinary Cow Draws Epworth Boulevard Crowd
A plain man led a cow along Epworth boulevard drawing a crowd of about fifty children, curious pedestrians, and streetcar passengers who paused to watch this unusual sight.
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Epworth Boulevard
Detroit News
Broken Dreams in a Red Rusted Attic Trunk
A nostalgic poem about a mother's trunk of baby garments. The rusted red key and cobwebs conceal a mother's tears for a lost child. The fragile dreams live on in child clothes that never were worn, saved as a gold like memory.
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Dodd, Mead & Company
How to work with a boss you think you know
The author argues to avoid correcting the boss publicly. If hired as a consultant, offer your opinion with immunity. As an assistant, follow orders precisely and prove reliability. Repeated, consistent performance leads to promotion as others seek capable workers.
Learning Habits of Birds Banding Effort Gathers Data
The United States biological survey and 490 cooperators banded 6000 birds last year to identify migratory patterns and flight habits, yielding valuable data on avian behavior for scientific study.
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United States Biological Survey
Clam dressed in shell and sweet potato biscuits recipe
A homey collection notes preparing fresh clams in shells with a bread crumb dressing and horseradish cream, followed by a sweet potato biscuit method. Also includes a baked custard style potato dish with eggs, sugar, milk, and spices to serve with ham.
What Makes Ian a Leader?
An analysis of leadership traits ties a crown like top head development to firmness self esteem and continuity. Strong facial features and tactile insight are linked to business mastery while a weak back head limits sociability yet obligates duty. Body movement reflects decisiveness.
Characteristics of two kinds of workers in old text
The passage contrasts two square built workers, one direct honest builder who acts without plans and a slower barge-boned inventor who shapes raw material. It links bone structure to temperament and work style, noting muscles imply motion while square bones suggest steady thought.
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Lerge
What Makes an Untried Business Man
The piece defines a business man by head shape and faculties. It links conscientiousness with honesty, notes business traits above the ears such as acquisitiveness and combativeness, and argues that intellect and friendship temper self-interest to create a successful, game-loving person.
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Gion
Meaning of the pear shaped face and artistic type
Pear shaped face describes a light build and aesthetic talent yet limited vitality. The type favors art, music, engraving, and library work, with small delicate hands, pale complexion, and a long nose tip. They excel when partnered with practical motive power and may bear genius in shifting burdens onto others.
Builders of the World Concept on Constructiveness
The forehead area over the temples signals constructive talent. Constructiveness lies in the middle side temples, two inches up and back from the outer eye angle, driving invention and the ability to design machines, plants, locomotives, typewriters, and thrashing gear. It enables builders across diverse fields.
Hard on the Visitor and Election Night Misstep
A family note recalls a town activist chairing the women’s central committee as women gained voting rights. An election judge husband retires early, while guests mingle. The narrator’s embarrassment peaks when a child blurts out that dad “beat it to bed” upon hearing visitors were arriving.
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Central Committee For Women
Chicago Tribune
Automobile musings and global tensions amid diversions
A whimsical column notes soaring auto fatalities and the calming myth of “the long green.” It jokes about child development, cave man happiness, and a proposed saxophone endurance contest while sketching risks of Russo Near East crises and the weight of travel driven by driver and machine alike.
It Is Safest to Tell Your Wife Everything
A quotable saying urging honesty in marriage emphasizes revealing truths to one spouse before others hear them. It warns that delay invites misinterpretation and unnecessary harm, advocating transparent communication between partners for trustworthy relationships.
History guides quick thinking paths in daily life
The piece notes that history teaches pedestrians to think fast on their feet and use others’ past records as alibis. It also comments that wild animals are rising in cost and may claim a share in film rights.
Fort Worth flood animal heroes tell of bravery and loss
Chicago Tribune recounts Fort Worth Texas flood tales where a cat scratched at the door saving a family, a mother dog lost her pups and endured floodwaters, and a mare stayed with her dead colt and died with the young.
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Fort Worth
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Chicago Tribune
Jevenile Lament Over Twins News Sparks Emotions
Lenore, an only child, resents neighbors welcoming their second set of twins. She exclaims that it is not fair that some children come in bunches while she remains a single child.
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Lenore
When Money Talks. If you are angry count ten before you speak
A Boston Transcript quote clip advises patience in anger urging restraint in speech and uses a wife example to illustrate calm response before reacting to money matters.
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Boston Transcript
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