Peter Seeks Home of Rattles the Kingfisher
Peter the Rabbit longs to find Rattles Kingfisher home in a ground hole. He searches many holes on the Green Meadows and Green Forest, growing tired yet more curious. Jimmy Skunk hints Rattles stays near water as Peter learns the bird lives away from land.
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Eter Rabbit
Rattles the Kingfisher
Rattles
Peter
Grandfather Frog
Smiling Pool
Laughing Brook
Green Forest
Green
Jimmy Skunk
Jimmy
Eter
Boners Bassanio Sings A Beautiful Song
A fragment notes Bassanio performing a song titled Tell me, where is fancy bread. The item reflects a playful Shakespearean era reference with a likely humorous misquote or variant spelling.
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Bassanio
Boners and trivia from old exams and plays
A humorous collection of exam tidbits and literary references notes the Inquisition, Ferdinand and Isabella, guillotines, Charles I, West Indian islands, Dante, Pisa, famine, graven images, a maid, and milking cows in a 1932 Bell Syndicate WNU Service item.
Ancient Ostrich Head Buried in Sand Myth
The idea that ostriches bury their heads in sand is an ancient superstition. It persists only among races unfamiliar with ostrich behavior, who believe it to be true.
The City Calls to Roaming Men in 1932
Douglas Malloch writes of Chicago as a lure that outvalues green hills and pure air. He expounds that cities call to roaming people, arguing home is not the only word for belonging and that the heart of demos beats in urban life.
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Bea
Chicago
Demos
Douglas Malloch
WNU
Apple Delight for Invalids in 1932 Guide
A nurse friendly recipe from 1932 Western Newspaper Union offers Apple Delight for invalids. It describes stewing apple eighths, making gelatin with fruit juice, layering, and chilling with whipped cream. It also presents a custard variant with gelatin and milk, served plain or with fruit sauce.
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Western Newspaper Union
Obeying and Commanding Quote by Solon
A concise maxim from Solon states that those who learn to obey will know how to command, highlighting the link between discipline and leadership.
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Solon
A Fortnight Ago Umbrella Confusion at Diner
A diner recognizes a stranger by an umbrella, claiming a meeting two weeks earlier. The newcomer denies the meeting and explains the umbrella could not have existed then, prompting a humorous exchange about mistaken memory.
Political wisdom on interviews quoted in a terse exchange
A witty exchange centers on speech and censorship in interviews. The politician complains about revealing views, while the other suggests the craft is saying little for public consumption.
Soldier nephew confesses to four engagements
Aunt Jane gasps at confession as her soldier nephew admits to being engaged to four women at once. He shrugs, saying he doesn’t know how to explain and jokes that Cupid shot him with a machine gun.
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Jane Y
Bertie
Cupid
Young Billy Wonders About Death After Pets Die
A child narrates a string of pet deaths and fears his father may die soon as he tells a neighbor about the losses. The passage shows a boy’s anxious mood and mortality concerns in simple dialogue.
Ready for Service Little Boy Joke
A father explains milk types to a child asking about spigots for a cow. He lists condensed milk evaporated milk sweet milk and sour milk prompting the boy to plan his drawing with multiple spigots.
Olive boy’s bargain counter grandmother mystery
A cryptic exchange hints at a family secret as a grandmother linked to a baseball doubleheader dates dies in a strange pattern. Read as a clipped clue in a local column.
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Ollive
Public Subscription Supports Local Music Studies
A Madrid exchange notes neighbors fund a public subscription to help Gutierrez's son study music in Paris. The brief indicates local civic involvement and plans to support the musician's education abroad.
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Goting
Paris
Gutierrez
Madrid
Soap Fortune Attributed To Clean Living
The local reporter questions a prosperous soap manufacturer Mr Lattier about his success. He responds that clean living is the key to his fortune, a statement noted by Pearson's.
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Lattier
Tom's Engagement Rumors Circulate Among Eight Partners
Gossip claims Tom has been engaged to eight women recently while friends defend him as a promising young man. The remarks circulate in social circles, prompting varied reactions about his dating high activity.
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Tom
Always Rising to the Occasion at the College Assembly
A tall hat figure and a leading citizen appear in a campus gathering disputing the prominence of colleges. The exchange questions whether prominent men have received the honors or command influence in higher education, reflecting local attitudes and curiosity.
Montana farmers push for loan relief at Culbertson meeting
About 400 officials and farmers from 10 northeastern Montana counties gathered to discuss drought losses hot weather high wheat costs and seed loan maturity. Governor Erickson and others urged action including deferring loan payments and seeking a $1,000,000 RFC loan for relief in agriculture and industry.
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Culberston
Montana
Erickson
Leavitt
M. L. Wilson
Montana State College
James
Secretary of Agriculture
Hyde
Helena
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Kalispell Lumber Yard Firelarms $80000 Loss in Flathead
Five million feet of lumber stored at Kalispell Lumber company yards was destroyed by fire, with officials estimating a loss of $80,000. The Montana state canvas shows gubernatorial candidates led the July 19 primary with 146,038 total votes from 232,645 registered voters.
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Kalispell Lumber Company
Kalispell
Helena
State Game Commission
Charles B. Marrs
Deer Lodge
Robert H. Hill
North Montana
Great Falls
Irrigation Committee of Montanans, Inc
F. B. Connelly
Montana
John Horrigan
Sioux City
Iowa
Montana Highway Commission
Flathead
Bitter Root
Hell Gate
Deer
Lodge
Custer County
Miles City
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BY Thornton W. Burgess
Ferdinand and Isabella
Charles I
West Indian Islands
Dante
Tower of
Pisa
Bell Syndicate
By Douglas Malloch
Romaine
Billy G
Billie
Culbertson
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