Wild Turkey Ranked King of the Woods
The piece extols the wild turkey as a monarch of forests and a noble game bird, tracing its status from Charles IX’s wedding banquet to its place beside the eagle in American symbolism. It contrasts wild and domestic forms, notes its beauty and prowess, and debunks myths about the bird’s origins and lineage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles the Ninth
France
Catherina of Medici
Catherine
Charles Lucian Bonaparte
Turkey
Hemsphere
William T. Hornaday
New York Zoologicat Park
Nave
Earth
Ben Franklin
New World
United States
Atlantic
England
Herbert Ravenel Sass
American Legion Monthly
Christmas Seal Sale Boosts Health Efforts Across Iowa
The twenty-second annual Christmas seal drive runs from Thanksgiving to Christmas, with 32 million seals distributed by local committees across Iowa. Funds aid tuberculosis prevention, child health programs, nursing, school health services, and heart disease prevention, saving an estimated 260 lives annually and about $744,000 in state health work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa Tuberclosis Association
Iowa
Keokuk
Onawa
Algona
Magon City
Cooper Alia Apeicios Mawr
Towa
Rocal
World Wide Movement For the Prevention
Santa Claus Interview Highlights Health Drive Through Schools
Santa Claus described a pre Christmas survey visiting schools, homes, churches, and libraries funded by Christmas Seal money. He cited first aid kits, health posters, hot lunches, milk, school thermometers, dental and eye exams, playground equipment, and health education as examples of gifts funded by the seal. He recalled a choir singing America the Beautiful and affirmed the seal’s dual purpose of aiding health and goodwill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Claus
Prosa
Ihealth
Farm Bureau
Lowe Schools
Iowa
Teachers’ Institute
Ite
Unfair Triumph and Burly Strawbridge Remarks
A Washington reception scene is recalled with references to Senator Smoot and a Bolshevik triumph in Russia. A boast from burly Mr. Strawbridge claims he knocked down an insulter, but the punchline reveals it was with his ear. The passage muses on marriage tempering a man’s impulses and the folly of heated pride.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smoot
Washington
Phta
Mr. Strawbridge
Castoria and a scattered advertising snippet
An advertisement touts Castoria as a pure vegetable remedy for infants restless with fretful spells feverish or crying. It claims relief for colic constipation or diarrhea and urges keeping Castoria on hand for prompt soothing benefits. The snippet includes unrelated dialogue about indoor parts and a road scene.
Nujol Brings Health and Confidence to Norma Russel Jones
A Milwaukee woman recalls how a move to college and relief from sleeplessness changed her life with Nujol. She credits the remedy, described as bodily lubrication, with brightening her appearance and spirit, aiding success and happiness, and even her friend Freda becoming maid of honor at her wedding.
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Norma Russel Jones
Cramer Street
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Freda
Nujol
Najol
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AME Cas
Afiona
Turkey Gobbler
Banta Claus
America
Bayer
Sirenes
Truth
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