Trapper Threat Looms As Muskrat Jerry Faces Winter Peril
Jerry Muskrat watches Billy Mink and Little Joe Otter head for distant waterways while fearing new traps set by a wary woodsman along Laughing Brook. A stranger returns, inspecting logs and holes, hinting traps near Jerry s foraging grounds as winter approaches.
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Muskrat
Billy Mink
Little Joe Otter
Billy
Little Joe
Big
Laughing Brook
Jerry
Joe Otter
Farmer Brown
Jerry Muskrat
Man Avoids Shore for Food Odors
A man named Dada, distressed by the scent of tempting food, dives underwater to escape the aroma and swims home to ponder his next move.
Convict Faces Gallows for New Murder Charge
Aiguin already serving life for killing LA police sergeant J J Fitzgerald in 1923 appears in jail on charges of murdering Frank Rudeen the same night. Released from Folsom, he faces possible death if convicted.
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Los Angeles
Catching the dice trick ends in simple release method
A trick uses a small cup to toss two dice. The first die is captured, then the second appears to drop but is released instead. The cup swoops down to catch the last die as it falls, revealing the secret to win.
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William Steinway
Piano House
Liederkranz Society
Park Avenue
Fifty-ninth Street
Steinway
Coney Island
Rosy
Billy Rose
Fort Worth
Hippodrome
Detroit
Belle Isle
Hagenbeck
Hoboken
Sheba
Coney
Virgin Islands
Panama
Mother's Cook Book Tips for Quick Snacks and Desserts
The column lists simple mid century ideas for sandwiches and snacks using candy bars figs crackers and jelly as well as desserts from ginger cookies to marinated pineapple. It also includes a crab meat dish with a tangy cocktail and a fresh lettuce salad with lemon juice and peanuts. A Western Newspaper Union blurb about a quip on men and monkeys finishes the piece.
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Western Newspaper Union
Grandmother Clocks Die? The Women Shaped Timepieces
Collier's Weekly notes that Grandmother clocks are named for their female form. One example in the Helsinki National Museum depicts a woman with a short-sleeved blouse and flared skirt, standing on two human-shaped feet with arms akimbo.
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National Museum
Helsinki
Finland
Collier’s Weekly
The New Word by Douglas Malloch
The poem urges discovery of a new word as land to explore beyond gold. It invites mortals to seek and own that land through reading, study, and the wealth of speech found in language.
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Topay
Douglas Malloch
WNU
Annabelle's Answers A Rainy Night Exchange
A brief vignette features Annabelle addressing Patience in a rainy night scene. Annabelle speaks to navigating troubles with calm, offering guidance through a tense moment, hinting at personal reflections and humor within a snowy or wet urban setting.
Ten Fish Minute at Birth
A sunfish grows from a pinprick in infancy to about one ton in adulthood, marking a dramatic size leap as it matures in the ocean.
Paris News Viewpoints and Local Anecdotes From Branded Columns
A collage of observations on Paris newspapers and global media, Eden fatigue, and British policy, interwoven with New York cultural notes. The piece recalls Harmony Row history, Rosy the elephant, taxi driver practices, and Canal Street street players, ending with a syndicated reflection.
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Mary
America
Carload
By Thornton W. Burgess
Dada
T. W. Burgess
Pop
Washington’s
Bell Syndicate
Ponjay Harrah
Public Ledger
Catty Katie
By Douglas Malloch
Annabelle
BY Ray Thompson
Patience
Wally
Fleishhacker Zoo
San Francisco
Brisbane
Paris
Karl Marx
Eden
Mohave Desert
Examiner
Levand Brothers
Wichita
New York
Lenin
Jacques Bonhomme
Marx-Stalin-Lenin Brotherhood
Madame la Marquise
Madame de Deffand
Lord Bolingbroke
Lilliput
Mke
London
Lord Rothermere
James Farley
President Roosevelt
Gladstone
Commons
Gladstones
Tim Healys
Rothermere
Geneva
England
Baldwin
Normandy
Havre
Rome
Arion
Fidelio
Harmony Row
Liederkranz
Columbia Broadcasting Company
Canal Street
Holland Tunnel
Bel
L. L. Stevenson
Sugar Land
I. A. Buller
E. Brune
Grand Central
Sugarland Industries
Texas
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