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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1933
Page
2
Home candy guide outlines simple peanut brittle method with tips for avoiding sugar crystals. Provides step by step instructions for fudge taffy and butter scotch including temperatures and cooling, plus a basic brittle recipe using sugar water vinegar and butter.
A fragment suggests Jacob saw a ladder to heaven in a dream while spending afternoon at a football game. The reference notes he might have been perched in row ZZ of the stadium stands.
New York column recounts anecdotes about Carl Laemmle and Oliver Herford both hard of hearing, a poker scene with Sam Ross and Sam Jacobson, and a quip from Owen Davis about a new drama. It notes a builder buried in a mausoleum he designed reflecting skyscrapers’ spirit, then a merchant’s story.
Directions describe making a chocolate fudge candy with precise temperatures and steps. The text also notes Bell Syndicate WNU Service dressing a mausoleum drawing for future readiness, followed by a joke about Peter and Bill Sarver’s mouser after a quiet bungalow weekend.
The piece traces the origin of the expression Tom Dick and Harry from Tom and Richard in 1588 to Shakespeare’s Tom Dick and Francis in 1598 and Tom and Tib by 1606. It notes Farmer's Almanac Boston 1815 as the first to mirror the modern form Tom Dick and Harry.
The largest feline in the Americas supposedly hides across Spanish speaking lands. Described as sleek with a spotted coat and rosette patterns, the creature is feared and blamed for crimes it hasn’t committed. Ranchers pursue it from Argentina to Mexico, driven by a taste for sheep calves and shoats.
A reader recalls a noisy night with mice hiding in shoes and heavy thuds from Peter slapping at them. A Fifth Avenue resident wakes to find an intruder in his room, only to discover it is his valet taking clothes to be pressed. The valet quits after suing for $500.
In Hagerstown Maryland Mrs William Eavey of Trego found 25 eggs she thought were turtle eggs in her garden. She gave three to Dale Gams of Rohrersville who placed them in a jar, from which two copperhead snakes hatched.
New Orleans art scene holds two paintings by AlNsworth Woodward dated about 35 years old. He mixed oil pigments with Mexican beer rather than water to preserve color, a method born from lack of suitable water during sketching in the Mexican mountains. The works are displayed in Tulane University's art department and are now offered to enthusiasts.
My Neighbor SAYS offers cooking and laundry pointers from 1933. Pork with sauce improves flavor. avoid shrinking wool by drying carefully. toast in warm oven for even browning. air dry babies’ clothing on frames. softens and blends dates with warm water and slow cooking.
A couple jokes about leaving a hotel after the wife learns her gowns and her husband’s solo speech were heard by other guests. The exchange teases marital friction in a light, humorous tone.
The article notes historic Isle of Man practices the deemsters once served as judged with no salary and later received 1200 pounds yearly. It recalls laws on dwelling entries without salutation as felonies, and that sheep stealing was once capital crime with felon’s goods to the lord, whose wife claimed the felon’s goats. Also mentions Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets advertising.
A light dialogue revolves around using vinegar and a familiar term of endearment. The quip humor arises from the mismatch between the edge of vinegar and the sweetness of honey in a domestic exchange.
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