Christmas Nut Rescue for the Squirrels
Mrs Squirrel learns the value of generosity when five starving Chatter Reds plead for food on Christmas Eve. After a moral talk, the couple shares their last nut, hopes fade, and a plan to visit kindly neighbors yields bags of nuts for all. The big house children respond with charity, ending in a restored larder for all.
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Mrs. Squirrel
Mr. Squirrel
Charlie Chatter-Red
Chatter-Red
Sabrina
Sandy
Squirrel
American Dress Movement Signals Native Fashion Rise
A fashionwriter argues American women are shaping distinct design, sourcing from home fabrics and designers. The piece notes rising student designers, evolving silhouettes, and the shift from Paris to American studios, with examples of serge and crepe gowns and handmade tucks and embroidery.
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Paris
America
I am a Scout and a First Class Scout
A poem by Berton Braley in Boys' Life extols Scout ideals of preparedness courage and self reliance. It highlights skills camping hiking and woodcraft and praises the lifelong lessons learned through scouting. The verses celebrate the confident cheerful attitude of a trained Scout ready to aid others and face challenges.
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Galt
Berton Braley
Christmas Inconsistency
Two men finish Christmas shopping on a rainy night. A boy, hoping to buy his mother a pink carnation, asks for ten cents. One man gives a dime, another rebukes the idea, and a waiter earns a large tip in advance. The boy buys the flower and goes home happy while the waiter snubs the next customer.
Christmas Come and Gone In A Southern City Memoir
An old southern man, before Prohibition, celebrated Christmas quietly with a bottle. As he walked home, he tripped on the curb, the bottle shattered on the pavement, and he sighed that Christmas had come and gone.
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Ourky
Darky
Christmas Neckties and Hidden Wardrobe Rules
A columnist notes that about 90 of 100 men receive neckties at Christmas yet asks how many are worn. The piece argues neckwear invites personal taste and many recipients will only wear a tie under pressure or unused as a mere decorative item.
Jack Sends Notable Christmas Gifts This Year
Local observer notes Jack exchanged what may be the finest Christmas presents yet this season, praised by recipients as thoughtfully chosen and memorable.
Raisin Gema Recipe From Old Notebook
This fragment describes a raisin nut gem recipe. It lists ingredients: flour baking powder salt sugar raisins walnut meats an egg melted butter or shortening and milk. Instructions say to sift dry ingredients add raisins and nuts mix with milk and egg then stir in butter pour into gem pans and bake in a moderate oven about 80 to 85 minutes yielding about 12 gems.
Gingerbread Recipe with Raisins and Spices
A basic gingerbread method combines sugar molasses and shortening, then water and dissolved soda. Add ginger cinnamon flour and raisins, mix, and bake in a moderate oven for forty minutes on wax paper.
The Way of the Fashions from Paris to American dress
The article surveys 1920s fashion trends noting silver metal cloth dinner gowns with a left hip bow and adaptable silhouettes. It highlights straight sleeveless bodices, long skirts, and side panels, plus versatile hat crowns, velours de luine coats, monkey fur trim, red chiffon velvet evening capes, and evolving sleeve designs for day and evening wear.
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America
Paris
Jenny
Roosevelt Birth Anniversary Scout Tributes Across Nation
On Theodore Roosevelt's birthday October 27 scouts nationwide united to honor his memory and scoutlike virtues. Leaders emphasized honoring a great American and inspiring better citizenship through ceremonies, tree plantings, and pilgrimages to Roosevelt's grave at Oyster Bay. Local plans include a reproduction cabin from Roosevelt's Bad Lands life with logs from all states, reflecting 650 000 Scouts' tribute.
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Theodore Roosevelt
James KE. West
Roosevelt
Oyster Bay
N. Y
New York
Daniel Carter Beard
North Dakota
Union
A Scout Restores Kite to Boy After Wind Loss
A boy loses a kite in a strong wind and breaks the string to go home with only the spool. A scout notices the boy's sorrow, climbs the tree, frees the kite, and returns it to the grateful child, embodying scout ideals of helpfulness.
Seen this Morning Report of Scouts Helping Washerwoman
Two Boy Scouts are observed carrying a basket of clothes for a colored washerwoman, shown in a brief good turn noted by the Trenton Times columnist.
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Trenton
N. J
Scouts Convert Ground in Zillah to Park After Year of Work
Scouts from Zillah Washington presented 12 acre Scout Park grounds to the community after a year of effort. They organized 365 good turns with officials and friends to clear grounds build trails bridges lay water mains and pipe city water to the park.
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Zillah
Wash
Roosevelt Praises Boy Scout Movement as National Asset
The late Theodore Roosevelt, first Honorary President of the Boy Scouts of America, states the scouts build efficiency, virility and good citizenship. He calls for leaders of strong character and unwavering loyalty to the nation.
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Boy Scout Movement
Theodore Roosevelt
Boy Scouts of America
Scout Joe Garuk Advances In Scout Work
Scout Joe Garuk from Troop No. 8 Cleveland Gio shows progress in scouting with help from fellow boys. He receives wig wip messages by standing behind a secretary and assisting the flag bearer as messages are sent.
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Joe Garuk
Divid
Clevelina
Gio
Joe
Joe Stans
The Revival at Ebenezer Chapel Preacher Buckaloo Calls for Testimonies
Kansas City Star notes a revival at Ebenezer chapel where fierce hallelujahs fill the house. Brudder Bobshy suffers rheumatism while Toellus groans and the preacher asks what the Lord has done in his patient mussy. The scene centers on faith, testimony, and conversion.
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Buckaloo
Endurin
Ebenezer Chapel
Hallebooyers
Brands
Puhson Bagster
Kansas City Star
Refrigerator Cars In Use Across US And Canada
More than 150000 refrigerator cars are in use on the railways of the United States and Canada. Carving knife was once a great domestic instrument. Delicatessen leaves nothing to be carved.
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Westernanada
Western
Canada
Onpartanton Hei
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Britah Go
Fambig
J. Broughton
W. Adame &J
Chicago
M. Maclachlan
Jefferson Avenue E
Detroit
Mich
United States
Rural Doctors Serve More Patients in Urbanizing Ohio
An Ohio State University study finds country doctors handle about twice as many patients as city counterparts. In 15 counties with large urban populations rural physicians average 1,612 patients, while in rural-leaning counties one physician serves about 887 people.
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Ohio
Ohio State University
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