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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1933
Page
2
A 1933 WNU recipe feature describes tinting fabrics with small dye quantities to create pastel shades. It then offers a delicate tea sandwich using Canton ginger, pecan meats, candied orange peel, ginger syrup, vinegar and salt on unsweetened crackers. A simple onion orange salad on lettuce with mayonnaise is also noted.
A long excerpted article by Edith M Barber discusses colorfully varied grape based preserves. It covers grape jelly highlights with Concords fox grapes and wild varieties, plus jam conserve sauce and pie fillings. It also notes aging storage tips and a biscuit quality recommendation.
In Greenwich Village a battered old truck serves as a waste remover and moving family business run by a colored couple and their many children. Junk and furniture are salvaged, sold in Harlem, with trash and heat byproducts managed locally. Nearby, a German ex-navy jeweler salvages brass from a small homemade boat on the Hudson. A pigeons feeder on Riverside Drive tends to birds in spite of rain, and barges along the Hudson evoke old barge captain dreams as spring nears Coenties Slip.
A playful quarrel centers on a remark about foot in mouth. One party questions the creature about its soundness. The other retorts that every word from the speaker proves the point.
A descriptive piece on sea lions living along barren shores. The tale highlights their ferocious roars, hunting by natives for coats and skins, and uses of fats skins and bones. It notes a dominant bull weighing about fifteen hundred pounds, diving skills, and a wary stance toward killer whales.
The expression to bite the dust appears rooted in antiquity with early uses in Homer's Iliad Book Two and Ovid's Metamorphoses Book Nine. Translations of these works helped popularize the phrase as referring to death or being knocked down.
At West Texas Teachers College in Canyon Texas coeds arrived with bags and trunks of canned goods to cover part of their board and room. Randall Hall began a cooperative plan charging about 13 dollars monthly with six dollars payable in commodities from home. Girls will do dormitory housework under a supervisor who also serves as purchasing agent.
Dublin reports a new industrial alcohol derived from potatoes to be used as motor fuel and in dyes heating and lighting. The Irish Free State government will control production as a monopoly.
An old Dutch custom among Holland farmers baptizes calves before they graze. Water sprinkling is believed to keep calves away from surrounding ditches.
The world’s most patient checker players began a game in Sandusky Ohio that may take more than a year to finish. Clarence Coombs mailed a letter to T McLaren in Durham England stating he made the first move. McLaren will reply with the first counter move when he gets the letter and mail his move back. If they don’t exhaust patience or postage the game should end about this time next year.
A reader recalls a terrifically hot summer with heat waves and notes their afternoon bridge club was forced to suspend meetings for three afternoons due to the heat.
A new high precision instrument demonstrated at the Leipzig fair can measure to the one millionth of an inch. It magnifies tiny movements with a stereopticon display on a large screen and verifies accuracy within seconds of arc.
A brief aphorism notes that various money forms exist but easy money does not always mature into smart money, reflecting cautious financial wisdom. The quip appears in the Lafayette Journal and Courier.
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