Waxwings Visit Farmer Brown’s Cherry Tree
A story segment describes waxwings alighting in a cherry tree to eat cherries and worms, with humorous chatter among characters about politeness and daily life, ending with the birds flying away. The piece blends a nature vignette with a domestic amuse for readers.
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Brown
Bluebird
Farner Brown
Peter
Jenny Wren
Farmer Brown
Jenny
Gimmal Ring Name Etymology From Latin Gemmiellus
A fragment notes that the first engagement used was the Gimmal ring, a term traced to the Latin Gemmiellus meaning a joint or twin ring. The text appears as a linguistic aside in a historical discussion.
Through A Woman’s Eyes by Jean Newton
The piece cites Eleanor Roosevelt urging leisure for all, noting two hundred letters awaiting and a reader planning poetry in a day, arguing that time to loaf improves work. It emphasizes peaceful personal time for women, wives, and mothers amid busy schedules and work pressures.
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Moore School of Engineering
University of Pennsylvania
Oscar Schuck
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Question Box by Ed Wynn Perfect Foo
Reader asks how a man can fall into a wagon of soda water bottles without injury. Answer notes that staying in a soft drink filled wagon could cushion a fall. Then a second query cites a mean man provoking engineers with coal thrown at him and saved by a furnace, answered with a joke about extreme stinginess.
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Mr. Wynn
Huckleberry Pie Time in Quiet Country Life
The piece paints a peaceful scene of summer joy as a barefoot child seeks berries, a tin pail in hand, and a huckleberry pie cooling on a window ledge. Morning glories climb, brown wrens notice a simple girl, and the woodland path offers escape from chores to a calm, sacred home moment.
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Western Newspaper Union
Folding bed urges mute mother in law
A reader asks why he insists on a folding bed for his mother in law. The answer suggests the man wants to keep her quiet by having her sleep in a folding bed, implying a plan to shut her up at will.
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Mother
Jane
Mrs. Roosevelt
Bell
Mr. Wynn
Ilve
TL M
The
Associated Newspapers
Santa Monica gun shown to hunt alligators
A photo features Valin with a Haenagt rifle prepared for gator hunting. The caption notes the weapon will be used against alligators near Santa Monica. The image underscores efforts to curb rough wildlife threats.
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KLEIN
Santa Monica
Valin
Crusaders Path From Europe to Jerusalem Narrated
National Geographic outlines the Crusaders journey from central Europe to Jerusalem. It traces routes through Trieste and Venice, danger at sea, passage via the Dalmatian coast, Balkan corridors, and Asia Minor, noting sieges of Antioch and early movements toward Edessa and Jerusalem.
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National Geographic Society
Washington, D. C
WNU Service
Holy Land
Europe
Jerusalem
Trieste
Italy
Richard
Ragusa
Dubrovnik
Dalmatian
Venice
Basilica of San Marco
Acre
Brindisi
Mastertide
Brindis
Constantinople
Istanbul
Sanuhe
Balkan
Bosphorus
Peter the Hermit
Godfrey
Asia Minor
Teutons
Wranks
Olympus Heights
Ulu Dag
Dagi
Konia
Konya
Heraclea
Hregii
Christendom
Taurus
Toros
Tarsus
Edessa
Urfa
Marash
Maras
Clain
Syria
Antioch
Antioche
Iaid
Etrigele
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