Mourner the Dove and Peter Burgess Tale Meeting Gravel Digestion
In the Green Meadows lane Peter Habbit encounters Mourner the Dove in a gravel pit. Mourner explains he collects gravel to aid digestion with a gizzard grinding food, while Peter jokes about gravel breakfast. Mourner demonstrates iridescent neck and pebbles aiding digestion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmer Brown
Green Meadows
Peter Habbit
Peter
Dove
Welcome Robin
Farmer Brown's
John Bull figure origins in satire era
The piece notes that John Bull symbolizes Great Britain and first appeared in 1712 in a political satire by Dr. Arbuthnot, gaining popularity soon after through the wit of Dean Swift, with McClure Newspaper Syndicate WNU service credit.
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Sam
United States
John Bull
Great Britain
Dr. Arbuthnot
Dean Swift
McClure
WNU Service
Through a Woman's Eyes by Jean Newton
A Chicago column quotes lawyer and clubwoman Jean Newton on women in work and marriage. The piece notes debate sparked by Mrs Leonora Meder who allegedly said women belong in the kitchen, then questions career independence for college graduates and dual roles as wife and professional.
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Chicago Business and Professional Women's Club
Leonora 2. Meder
Bell Syndicate
WNU
Jury Panel Term Origins From Old Parchment Record
The oblong parchment pane used by sheriffs to list jurors summoned on venire reveals the panel’s early meaning and origin in jury duty records.
Question Box by Ed Wynn Provides Quips on Shoes Moon and Love
A humor column features Ed Wynn answering readers with playful quips. Topics include ill fitting shoes, the moon versus the sun for usefulness, crickets as music, women's equal rights, dentist curiosities in Hizustan, and a traveling salesman proposing to love only in certain months of the year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Wynn
Hugh Shadno
His Little Dutchman endearment poem by Anne Campbell
A light verse where a man affectionately calls his wife his Little Dutchman, praising her virtue and the home she tends. The poem describes the couple’s simple joys, the lamplight on her hair, and the loving, teasing nickname that marks their bond. Copyright WNU Service.
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WNU
Desserts Highlighted For End Of Summer Season
The article outlines fruit based dessert ideas using late summer and early fall produce. It mentions fruit Charlotte with gelatin cream and nuts, plus a Banana Ice Box Cake layered with lady fingers and bananas, to be chilled before serving and decorated with whipped cream.
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Charlotte
Kudlak bear named as largest carnivorous land animal
The article notes the Kudlak bear as the largest carnivorous land animal. It references historical gossip about the Gay Nineties era and contemporary comparisons between chorus girls and piano movers. The piece blends humor with a curiosity about animal size and cultural memory.
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Bell Syndicate
WNN
Baghdad Allahabad and Singapore on London Melbourne race route
Three Asian cities Baghdad Allahabad and Singapore figure in the London Melbourne race route planned for October. Baghdad displays modern growth with new rail lines and government offices while Allahabad sits at the Jumna and Ganges confluence hosting the Kumbh Mela crowd. Singapore rises from a jungle port to a British trading metropolis with a 400000 population and vast shipping.
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Geographies Society
Washington, D. C
WNU
HREB
Asia
England
Baghdad
Baghdad-Mosul
Mesopotamia
Belgium
Jonah
Moses
Mosul
Ali Baba
Aladdin
Rulus
Zobelda
Harun-al-Rashid
Allahabad
India
Ganges
Punjab
Jumna
Gagea
Johore
Sumatra
Java
Sir Stamford Raffles
East India Company
Singapore
Ita
Kipling
Lead in Pencils Production Process
The article explains pencil lead is a graphite and clay mix. Graphite is ground to powder, water added, and the mixture blended with finely powdered clay. A little lampblack may be added for darkness, then the mass is pressed and forced through dies.
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Bedtime Story
By Thornton W. Burgess
T. W. Burgess
Womans Eyes
Jean Newton
Colorado
MRM
Pueblo
Colo
Cumberland Homesteads
Crossville
Tenn
Department of the Interior
Papa
Pop
I. M
ED Wynn
Ss. Tronemer
John Philip Sousa
Irving Berlin
Paul Whiteman
L U. A
Hizustan
Eyman Pane
Associated Newspapers
By Anne Campbell
Girligags
Europe
Kumbh Mela
Asoka
Prayag
Strait of Malacca
Malay Peninsula
China
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