Fright for Billy Mouse Ends with Cheese Breakfast
Billy Mouse, an inquisitive young rodent, explores the pantry and boxes against parents warnings. He falls into a trap but escapes by backing out, learning to hunt alone while his family savor birdseed and cheese afterward. The tale closes with Billy claiming maturity despite his misadventure.
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Mouse
Billy Mouse
Puss
Billy
Ts. Mouse
Mrs. Mouse
Father Mouse
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Through the Glad Eyes of a Woman
A columnat voice surveys fashionable women at a department store, praising their beauty routines from awakening to bedtime. It chronicles perfumes, cosmetics, and daily rituals, ending with a nod to grateful nosegay girls and a playful salute to stylish sparing of scents.
Reginald Denny Career Arc Highlights Stage to Screen
Reginald Denny, an English born actor, began on the legitimate stage after college and moved to America for road shows. He served as a Royal Air Force boxer during the war, then returned as a musical comedy baritone before entering motion pictures by invitation of a prominent producer.
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England
America
Royal Air Force
Motion Pictures
The Why of Superstitions
Harving King Vapserever explains how the belief that a gray pine brings misfortune, especially to women, roots in ancient Attis cult rites. He traces connections to Cybele, Adonis, Osiris, and the spring festival where a bound man died, blood was shed, and pines burned, linking color and ritual to lingering fear of the tree.
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Attis
Europe
Atus
Adonis
Osiris
Cybele
What's in a Name by Mildred Marshall
Mildred Marshall explores personal names giving their history meaning origin and significance. The piece outlines how names are derived their lucky day and lucky jewel offering cultural insights and examples.
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Mildred Marshall
Regina name history and symbolism across cultures
The article traces the given name Regina from Latin roots and variations across Italy France Germany and Spain. It notes Regina meaning queen or rule, links to Rene Renata and Rentra, mentions Teutonic forms Reig Regi, and ties aquamarine as Regina's jewel with healing lore. Thursday is stated as Regina's day and violet as her flower.
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Heaven
Maria
Regina
Reina
Florence
France
Reine
Reinette
Germany
Agmar
England
Rene
Renee
Louis XII
Alste
Renata
Reig
Regi
Wheeler Syndicate, Inc
Dr Kilmer’s Swamp Root Medicine Ad Claims Cures
An advertisement touts Dr Kilmer’s Swamp Root as a cure for kidney liver and bladder ailments claiming it fulfills many wishes by neutralizing uric acid. It offers sample bottles by parcel post from Dr Kilmer & Co and mentions sales in La and medium sizes at drug stores.
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Kae Bwaimp
Swift Financiering Ends in Sharp Domestic Twist
A middle aged black cook rising to financial stability becomes engaged to a sportsman of her race. Her mistress learns the rapid pace of events as the cook reveals in a kitchen window exchange that she and her fiancé recently got acquainted and engaged, yet he already owes her eighty five dollars.
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Hannah
Gluttons for Food Across Records in Royal Society Pieces
London Tit-Bits notes extreme eating feats from a ten year old who consumed 878 pounds of food in six days and another who eaten 884 pounds in the same period. A Norfolk farm laborer ate a whole leg of mutton in one sitting. A St Bartholomew hospital patient daily ate three quarts of loaves meat and potatoes for three weeks. A three year old drank two pails of water daily. glass blowers drank 40 pints daily and a French physician reported a patient who drank 50 pints of red wine daily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
The
Royal Society
Norfolk
St. Bartholomew's Hospital
Man Who Controls Public Opinion Reflects It
Quote notes that a public opinion controller nearly mirrors the views he seeks to shape, suggesting a close alignment between influence and reflection in opinion leadership.
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John Kendrick Bangs
McClure
Jane Doe
California
China
Japan
Reginald Denny
Harving
Dr. Kilmer
Swift Financiering
H. Wainer & CO
New Orleans
Houston
Sam Houston Hotel
Wallace C. O'Leary
Bahar
Galveston
F. W. Heitmann Co
Houston, Texas
U. S
Mauser & Luger Arms and Repair
Ialustrated
A. F. Stoeger
East 42Nd Sc
New York
St. Nicholas
Glenwood Rd
Dept. W
Brooklyn
A. E
Legg
United States
Southwest
Texas Sugar Refining Co
Texas City, Texas
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