Peter the Tired Bear Sees Fall Bring Change and Fear
In a Burgess tale from 1932, Peter the bedtime bear dislikes hot weather and welcomes autumn with its crowds of migrating birds and a looming hunting season. He visits Paddy the Beaver and the Quack family, who fear hunters but feel drawn to a future journey south.
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Eterrabbuy
Peter
Southland
Mrendy
Brier
Quack
Paddy
Beaver
Green Forest
Mrs. Quack
Mr. Quack
Qld Brier Patch
Buster Bear
T. W. Burgess
Boners and Oddities From Exam Fragments
A collection of humorous to absurd lines from exams and essays. It features playful misstatements about William IV funerals, six men carrying beer, early English poetry on barges, and quips about government jails and cow tails touching bacteria.
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William IV
Dessert Ideas For Housewives A Guide To Quick Varied Treats
A culinary piece advises housewives to keep a dessert card and rotate new recipes. It outlines two dessert ideas using apple sauce lemon custard and a meringue cup presentation, including whipped cream layers and cocoa frosting, with notes on texture and flavor.
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Western Newspaper Union
Town Stagnation Reflects 1942 Ads Slowdown
A reflective verse notes hard times in commerce and advertising during wartime. The speaker laments reduced business, cut advertising, and waiting for a spark to improve the town's fortunes as 1942 unfolds.
It's a mistake to stiffen your backbone by eating starchy foods
A corpolent figure named Cora dismisses the idea that starch rich meals harden resolve. This brief quip appears in a Bell Syndicate filing via WNU Service, cataloged as a light cultural remark from 1402.
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Cora
Bell Syndicate
WNU
Lady Never Heard Of It Duties Scraping Potatoes
A terse exchange between a lady and a tramp describes his duties as scraping the eyes from potatoes. The dialogue captures a moment of class tension and survival in stark terms.
Nile-bird dental aid for crocodiles described in river tale
A river crocodile basks on the bank and opens its mouth invitingly for a Nile-bird. The bird cleans leeches and debris from the crocodile’s tongue and cavity walls, then departs, leaving the reptile to await another cleaning in time.
Population Movements From Farms To Towns And Cities
The USDA estimates show 1 472 000 persons left farms for towns and cities in 1930 and 1 479 000 moved farther. Farm population rose by 418 000 that year. In 1930 about 1 706 000 moved from cities to farms and 1 727 000 moved from farms to cities, nearly balancing. A slight drop in farm departures and a larger drop in city departures occurred in 1931.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Wad
Carns
Elles
European Water Diviner Sways Pendulum and Twig
Abbe Gabriel Lambert, a European water diviner, is noted for extraordinary gifts. He reportedly uses a pendulum over water and also employs a hazel twig. He is soon to be sent to Algiers on an official water-finding mission.
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Africa
Gabriel Lambert
Ite
Hazel Twig
Teds
Algiers
Bayer Aspirin Promises Instant Pain Relief In Ad
An ad touts Genuine Bayer Aspirin for rapid relief from headaches neuralgia and rheumatic pains citing a unique Bayer process. It urges buyers to look for the Genuine Bayer Aspirin mark and the Bayer cross on each tablet to ensure authenticity.
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Bayer Laboratories
Bayer
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Turtle Creek
Pittsburgh
George Westinghouse
United States
By Thornton W. Burgess
America
Charlotte
Boston
By Douglas Malloch
Duglas Malloch
WNU Service
Hases
Procter & Gamble
Rolf Rasmussen
Kenosha
Wis
Denmark
Order of Danebrog
Rasmussen
National
Danish Brotherhood of America
Harbin
Walter
London
A Bayer
Ates
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