Porky Pig Explains Cyclamen Wordplay and Family Food Bonds
In a playful exchange, Porky Pig describes a flower named Cyclamen tied to the word circle and notes the stems are eaten by the family. Miss Ham and others react with curiosity and humor as the tale blends language and food.
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Porky Pig
Miss Sam
Miss Wam
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Which River Is It East's Well Known River
The riddle clues spell out a river familiar in the East through six letters. Each line hints a letter found in the cited word group, leading to the river name Jordan.
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Jordan
Old swimming hole scene shocks spinster asks about bathing attire
A spinster confronts boys at a rural swimming hole about proper dress. Johnny explains with a wink that Jimmy's father is a policeman, implying protection while the group swims in the nude.
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Johnny
Jimmy
Lace Trim Dominates Fall Silk Frocks and Paris Style
Fashion notes spotlight lace trimming as a key feature in upcoming fall silhouettes. Designers mix lace with velvet and chiffon, favor brimmed hats and long gloves, and favor molded figures with lace accents, yokes, and pleats. Paris trends push black and white contrasts and quaint silhouettes. Julia Bottomley, 1930 Western News feature.
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Practical cookery for hot weather from a home economist
A 1930 Western Newspaper Union excerpt offers advice on versatile cooking, testing flavors, and avoiding strict recipe adherence. It urges housewives to improvise with seasonings, chilling soups, and fruit cocktails to please the family and adapt meals for hot weather.
Refrigerator Revels: Dishes and Desserts From Icebox Tricks
A vintage recipe fragment explains using an automatic refrigerator for desserts and cold dishes. It details Strawberry Mousse Frozen Fruit Salad Frozen Cheese Salad and Icebox Cookies with ingredients, chilling times, and serving ideas.
Clockmakers Art Shown in Budapest Collection
Budapest hosts a clocks and watches museum exhibition with several hundred pieces. Highlights include Boules crystal carved watch, a bronze clock once owned by Prince Rokoczi, and watches with microscopic engravings. A centuries old cast iron clock and a seventeenth century control clock with a spike wheel mechanism are on display, with a night watchman’s pull cord as part of the display.
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Transylvia
Clock Sets Off Alarm During Toscanini Concert
A pocket alarm clock hidden by a musician in the New York Symphony Orchestra performance under Toscanini caused a disruption as a clock jammed against a player’s side. The incident interrupted the serene music as the clock purred loudly at an inopportune moment.
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Remarkable Hand Quilted Coverlet by Invalid Mrs Arnold Stevens
Brockton Massachusetts resident Mrs Arnold Stevens, an invalid, completed a hand stitched quilt of 20 786 pieces each the size of a postage stamp. She used 100 spools of thread and worked on the project over several years, also making ten other quilts of larger pieces during the period.
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Jam Found Buried Under Ottawa University Kitchen
Workers excavating for a university building in Ottawa Ontario unearthed forty quarts of jam buried several feet underground beneath the kitchen area. The jam had lain there for 27 years and was reportedly enjoyed by students of the university.
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Ottawa University
Ottawa
Ontario
Oath of the Tennis Court Leaders Pledged at New Meeting Place
The famous Oath of the Tennis Court was taken by leaders of the French Revolution after the gathering was moved from its usual site. Louis XVI ordered the closure of their meeting room, forcing the oath to be signed elsewhere.
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Louis XVI
Premiums for French Babies Scaling Bonuses for Larger Families
The French use a sliding scale for birth bonuses with the first-born receiving 120 francs, second 860, and 540 for each additional child up to twelve. After twelve, a general payoff resets the system. Minister Desire Ferry has sent orders to prefects to implement this.
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M. Desire Ferry
Castoria: A Gentle Remedy For Restless Children
Restless children fret for no reason and Castoria offers gentle relief. The harmless recipe soothes youngsters more surely than stronger medicines and can be given to infants as needed. It helps colic diarrhea constipation and upset and is a pure vegetable preparation for poor appetite or restless sleep.
Balloons Used as Scarecrows on London Outskirts
Gardeners on the outskirts of London place inflated balloons on sticks to deter birds. A thief bird pecks at one, triggering a pistol like explosion that scares it away and keeps it from returning.
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London
Budget Balance Shelves Off Evening Leisure
A reader reports using a budget system saves money by balancing daily expenditures each evening, leading to sacrifices like skipping shows or outings. The exchange highlights frugality as a consequence of disciplined spending.
How One Woman Lost 20 Pounds of Fat
Fat loss claim promoting Kruschen Salts urges daily half teaspoon in hot water for three weeks to shed fat. Benefits cited include increased energy clearer skin and brighter eyes with a money back guarantee if results fail to impress. Dramatizes dramatic weight loss to persuade use.
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