Love for Dog-Owners by Albert Payson Terhune
An essayish piece recounts a Col Prouse yard scene with a collie puppy Bruce and a cocker spaniel, exploring canine play as primal wolf training. Old Man Negley links puppy antics to ancestral combat, noting leg bites and throat attempts as inherited fighting scripts. He cites Chief wolf traits, lessons from West encounters, and two long journeys of collies returning home to their owners.
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Negley
Colonel Prouse
Burke
Prouse
Col Me
Bruce
Spaniel
North Carolina
Georgia
Fort Scott
Ans
Albuquerque
N. M
Fort Scott Zoo
The
McNaught Syndicate, Inc
New Novelties in Fabric and Color
Fashion writer notes endless interest in evolving dress styles with bias cut hems, tube dresses with flounces, plaited girdles and panels. Straight skirts gain fine plaiting, circular flounces create hip points, and unfitted blouses feature delicate plaiting and passementerie details with slashed fronts revealing vests or guimp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Couturiers
Paris
Return of Taffeta Dominates Spring Fashion Show
The feature highlights an unprecedented collection of costumes led by taffeta, chiffons, and velvet blends. Paris designers favor taffeta in bouffant gowns and panel details while sheer fabrics and small patterns like polka dots and checks reappear in contemporary cuts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Langin
Navy
Brittany
Pervendhe
Tor
Couturiers
Pastoral Hungary An Image Of Life In Budapest And Countryside
The piece surveys Hungary amid a throne succession fever in Budapest and calm rural life. It paints pastoral Hungary as a land of feudal beauty, gypsy camps, and strong peasant traditions, contrasted with emerging modern cooperatives and church magnate influence shaping rural labor and festivities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hungary
Hortobagy
Alexander
Soegdinna
Lfe
Wart OT Cout
Arabia
England
The Secret of a Happy New Year
A devotional piece on contentment drawn from Philippians 4 11 urging reliance on the Holy Spirit and Scripture. It argues happiness comes not from wishes or external storms but from learned contentment cultivated through prayer Bible study and service, with Paul’s example of endurance as proof.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earth
Paul
Avery
Timothy
Min
Lfe
Smoked Fruits Move Across Nations for Immigrant Tastes
Various smoked fruits are imported into the country with figs and raisins from Italy for Italian immigrants and pears from Germany for Americans of German stock. For sixty years such smoked pears have been sent here, while other varieties cater to diverse nationalities though little reaches American tables.
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Italy
Germany
America
Local Legend Tells Of Peter Faber Outwitting the Devil
An English native of Edmonton from the Henry VII era is said by local tradition to have sold his soul to the devil and then cheated him of it. A note mentions rubber shoe strings recently introduced by a British maker that stretch easily enough to slip shoes on or off.
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Peter Faber
Edmonton
Henry VII
Women in Fistie Ring Challenge in 1722 London
A London daily paper from 1722 records a boxing challenge between Elizabeth Wilkinson of Clerkenwell and Hannah Hyfield of Newgate Market. Each woman offered three guineas as stake, with half a crown in each hand, and vowed not to spar with leniency. The exchange reflects early women’s involvement in pugilistic display.
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London
Elizabeth Wilkinson
Clerkenwell
Hannah Hyfield
Newgate Market
Mvilizabeth Wilkinson
Wholesome and Delicious: A Simple Fruit Preservation Note
A brief line extols wholesome flavor and highlights preserving surplus fruit as an excellent method. The tone suggests practical value in turning excess fruit into tasty, lasting supplies. The message reads like a compact kitchen tip with practical encouragement.
Notable Records And Odd Facts From 1924
A roundup of trivia cites 9012 books published in 1924 and mentions the largest electric globe at 400000 watts. It notes goldfish eat their eggs unless stopped, ten U S states outpace foreign phone totals, U S food exports rose by 128 million dollars, pocket sized grain of wheat bulbs exist, Burns died at thirty seven, Longfellow’s wife died in a fire, an English magazine uses rubber infused paper to stretch life, and more curiosities.
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United States
Robert Burns
Scotland
Henry Wadsworth
Pearls for Little Girls in Simple Bracelet Necklace Sets
Pearls for little girls come in sets featuring a bracelet and a necklace. Simplicity is the keynote with pearls of even size in the various new tints comprising these sets.
Fashionable Applique Trimming Shapes Southern Frocks
Applique trimming in flat braids forms patterns and ornaments on gowns and wraps, highlighting designer individuality. Chantal features a Palm Beach white silk frock with knotted biscuit trim. Lelong offers pink gray outfits with lamb coat and bold pattern. confetti crepe de chine and chiffons gain vogue for southern wear with floral and pastel motifs.
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Chantal
Lelong
Flour Quality Guide From Department Of Agriculture
The Department of Agriculture explains yeast breads turn out better with strong flours milled from hard wheat due to higher gluten content. Soft-wheat flour has less gluten and yields subtler dough behavior in fermentation and rising.
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Department of Agriculture
Reward for Hero Officer by Buenos Aires Benefactor
A former Scotland Yard officer inherits a fortune from a Buenos Aires millionaire who thanked him for saving the man from a London swindle gang shortly before the benefactor’s death.
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Scotland Yard
Buenos Aires
London
Hand says gluten content affects cake and bread quality
The note states that less gluten produces weaker elastic dough. It adds that for cake pastry and quick breads where tenderness matters, oil is desirable.
Actor Discovers Limited Tricks and High Pay
An actor realizes his tricks are limited and that his salary is too high. The reflection hints at a self critical view of talent versus compensation in the entertainment field.
Unclear quote from Uncle Ken on trust and finances
Fragmentary remarks attributed to Uncle Ken in a Washington Star excerpt discuss how a man away for 15 or 20 days a month affects his credibility and responsibility for financial problems. The quotation reflects strain between personal reliability and economic consequences.
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Uncle Ken
Washington Star
Quote on Solitude and Enthusiasm as Nurturers of Genius
A brief, aphoristic note asserting solitude nourishes enthusiasm which in turn fosters genius, reflecting on the historical view that seclusion fuels creative insight. The passage intertwines praise of quiet reflection with the belief that inner focus drives exceptional achievement.
Striking Tub Silks Debut In Pastel Stripe Plaid Styles
New tub silks feature striking stripe and plaid designs in soft pastel tones this season. The article highlights fashionable prints and the trend toward light muted colors dominating fabrics and home textiles.
Foods High in Phosphorus List
The article lists foods with high phosphorus content including buttermilk codfish celery spinach lettuce cauliflower cottage cheese and asparagus.
Fragmentary art note on color and humanity in a painter
A fragmented quotation observes that art uses tiny colors to reveal the soul of man. It asserts that divine effort surpasses a artist's work, framing painting as a beacon of light and nobility.
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J. Tailer
Unclear Quote on Self Knowledge and God’s Light
A fragment advises against seeking self knowledge in personal darkness. It warns that lying in wait for discouragements leads to self deception, and that true understanding comes from God’s light rather than inner darkness.
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Lie
Ulathorne
Men Who Have Seen Bene Factors Have Noted Achievements
A quoted remark highlights that those who have observed many of the world's greatest benefactors are often men who have witnessed and accomplished significant deeds. The aphorism frames experience as the core of leadership and generosity.
Glorious Prerogatives in Channing Quote Reflections
The excerpt contrasts man's grand nature with outward distinctions and lists prerogatives such as intellect conscience love knowledge beauty action and influence over nature and others as celebrated in Channing. It presents a philosophical meditation on human powers.
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God
Channing
Life and ascent described as cleansing like sea waters
The text muses on life rising toward heaven as the key to renewal. It uses sea imagery to suggest purification comes from lofty or spiritual elevation.
Tanlac Promises Strength After Grippe or Fiendish Flu
Sick bodies made strong after a spell of Grippe or fiu when the system is run down and legs weak. Tanlac is advertised to clean the blood revitalize the digestive organs restore appetite and renew vigor. Buy a bottle today and start back to full strength with Tanlac and Tanlac Vegetable Pills for constipation.
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Albert Payson
Terhune
Worth
Prenet
National Geographic Society
Washington, D. C
Budapest
Merrie Fingland
Transylvania
Cardinal Mezzofanti
Danube
Flet
Christendom
Petofi
Tuska
Sume Mer
St. Stephen's Day
Ste
Dames Syn
Weymouth
J. R. Schaffer
Nick
Eben
Solitude
Enthusiasm
Disraeli
Samuel L. Martin
Main Street
Evansville
Dad
Gallstones
Loring Park Clinic
Harmon Place
Minneapolis
Minn
Wong
Washington
Coolidge
Mall
W. Jaenicken
Dearborn
Chicago
Pearson Street
North
Michigan Boulevard
Pearson
Near North Side
George
Georgette
Hill
Cascara
Lee Edward Turvis
Iowa State University
Travis
Popular Science Monthly
Toledo
Ohio
Dr. Fierce
Laura Hager
Vinton St
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