Home Guard stage show delights audience with tidy drills
A newspaper column recalls a trio of school events, starting with twelve young girls in dust caps performing polished housekeeping routines to music, then Johnny’s awkward school recital where a stage mishap triggers family laughter before ending with a teary departure. The piece captures community pride and child performers in a midcentury urban setting.
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Home Guard
Edith
Lucy
Miss Brown
Brown
Washington Star
Johnny
Detroit News-Tribun
Johnny Recitation Captures West Side Club House Debut
A seven year old delivers a speech before a large crowd at a west side club house. Family and relatives fill the dressing room and reserved seats as Johnny braces for his debut recitation. He nervously contemplates the audience and pauses before speaking up.
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West Side
Johnny
The Shepherd Carvers of California Sierra Mountains
A Basque shepherd in the California Sierras carves bone buckles during solitary months. He shapes bells and collars into intricate figures like saints, angels, and owners’ monograms, turning lonely days into skilled, patient labor with a pocketknife. The scene captures remote mountain life and craft.
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California Sierras
Pyrenees
New York Tribune
Names and childlike naming in Briar Patch Philosophy
Excerpt from William J. Long describes a child who assigns names to animals and objects as he encounters them. The boy’s nickname Butts-up reflects his roof-building methods, while a girl in the same vignette creates playful names for things and sounds of nature, suggesting a nearer truth in nature than adult jargon.
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Adam
William J. Long
Habit of Politeness in Japanese Children
A description from the Indianapolis News notes that Japan trains politeness from cradle to school. Children bow to strangers across the street and repeat this civility as a daily custom. Even before speaking, babies learn to raise a hand to the forehead when receiving a gift, a sign of respect and gratitude.
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Japan
Indianapolis News
Liver a la Begue adapted for calf liver
A kitchen tip from the New York Times detailing how to prepare liver. Select fresh calf liver, skin, cut into thick slices, fry in very hot lard until cooked through, season with pepper and salt, simmer gently, then drain fat before serving.
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New York Times
Rice and Shrimp Dish From the New York Times
Boil and peel two dozen large shrimps then cool. Fry an onion and washed rice in hot lard, add shrimps, stir until browned, cover with water. Season with salt pepper bay leaf thyme and parsley. Simmer until rice is cooked then dry before serving.
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New York Times
New York ‘Times
Classic Chicken and Ham Jambalaya and Crayfish Bisque
A New York Times recipe pair details two dishes. First, cut and fry chicken and ham, then simmer with rice, onion, tomato, and spices until tender. Second, prepare forty crayfish stuffed shells, fry in butter, make bouillon from heads, mix with seasoned stuffing, and serve atop toast.
Domestic hints from old kitchen notes
A collection of household tips on cleaning with ben zine and soda water, shoe care, tiling trends, effortless drawer use with soap, fruit and cheese ball prep, sugar timing for pies, marshmallow with chocolate, cake baking cues, and pie cooking guidance.
Untried Rowing Hope Seeks Tailor's Measure
The Washington Star notes a young, unknown sportsman enters a tailor shop declaring I am a rower and I want to be measured for two pairs of sliding-seat rowing trousers. He carries the air of a champion and seeks proper fittings.
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The
Washington Star
Two Cures of Eczema From Cuthura Remedies
A Louisville reader reports two eczema cures using Cuthura Remedies. He cites his grandson’s recovery after years of doctors and high bills and his own severe winter-long sores before seeing improvement and eventual cure.
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Cuthura
M. W. LaRue
Seventh St
Louisville
Peruna Almanac and Other Anecdotes Offerings
Peruna Lucky Day Almanac advertised for eight million homes with druggist free copies and urging early inquiry as supply runs out. Also features health ads for piles cures, milch cows sent to Japan, and a humorous Lippincott anecdote about a driver and a caller in New York.
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Peruna
Lippincott
Nature and a Woman's Work Promises Remedyfor Women
An old time tonic claim blends grandmother remedies with modern roots and herbs. The ad promotes Lydia E. Pinkham's Compound as a universal standard for women's ills, citing Mrs Bertha Muff of Louisiana Missouri and urging other women to try the remedy.
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Lydia E. Cee
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