Winsome Bluebird and Peter Rabbit Preview Spring
In a warm children story, Winsome Bluebird and Peter Rabbit discuss Little Friend the Long Sparrow returning to the Green Meadows and the joyful herald Cheerful Robin, who faces danger in the South yet seeks enough to eat. They anticipate Mistress Spring's arrival.
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Bluebird
Ol Mistah Buzzard
Peter Rabbit
Friend
Long Sparrow
Peter
Robin
Cheerful
Win
Winsome
Smiling Pool
Mistress Spring
Green Forest
T. W. Burgess
WNU Service
First Aid To Ailing House Stresses Stain Over Paint
Article by Roger Whitman advises wood shingles be sealed with stain rather than paint to protect exposed surfaces and extend life. It emphasizes stain penetrates and breathes, reducing moisture intrusion and paint upkeep.
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Roger B. Whitman
Correcting Jerky Golf Strokes and Shingle Stain Methods
A mixed set of tips covers golf technique to reduce hurried putting and build a steady backswing, citing Billie Burke on mental focus and longer backswing to swing smoothly. The remainder explains shingle staining formulas using linseed oil, coal tar creosote, and turpentine for durable, lasting finishes.
Work and virtue in service to mankind
A Douglas Malloch poem urges using labor for good rather than hate or harm. It contrasts productive effort that serves God and country with misused skill that blinds and destroys like a spider’s glittering web meant to lure prey. The piece ends with a plea for labor in a better cause.
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Douglas Malloch
WNU Service
Loopholes and tax chiefs in political play
In June 1933 Guy T. Helvering faced senatorial questions over a tax bill reduction for Slim Jim Oil & Gas, yet was confirmed as internal revenue commissioner. He later led a drive on wealthy evaders while colleagues noted no moral turpitude in the case.
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New York
Guy T. Helvering
Internal Revenue
Slim Jim Oil & Gas Company
Congressional Investigation Committee
Roswell Foster Magill
Washington
Dizzy Dean
St. Louis
Helvering
Kansas
Congress
Hastings
Couzens
Farley
Internal Revenue Post
Third Finger Type Foretells Creative Flaw in Hands
The analysis notes a peg shaped third finger with a short smooth straight form feigning little creative urge and self expression pinned to objective aims. It cites WNN Service on R James Rowland Angell and L R Lohr’s NBC plan, detailing Angell’s Yale presidency, retirement reasons, and NBC role.
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WNN Service
R. James Rowland Angell
Yale
National Broadcasting Company
L. R. Lohr
NBC
Broadcasting
Great Plains Shelterbelt Plantings Guard Winds Across Plains
More than 100 million trees planted in the Great Plains shelterbelt provide protection from winds across Texas to the Canadian border. The forest service reports 81 percent survival in the western shelterbelt with fields of cantaloupes and watermelons thriving behind protective rows.
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Washington, D. C
Great Plains
Forest Service
Earl W. Tinker
Tinker
Mid
Texas
Canadian
CCC
Western
Shelterbelt
Off the Fez Beading Trend Adds Colorful Pleated Ribbon
A new fez treatment features off the face style with double pleated multicolored belting ribbon in coral green cinnamon and mustard. Plain black strips hold the design while pale dull gold clips set with diamonds provide a finishing touch.
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Fez
Sweet Potatoes Enter China Through Ancient Cultivation
In ancient China sweet potatoes were introduced and cultivated, expanding regional crops and culinary practices. The text notes early farming practices and the crop's adaptation to local soils.
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China
Ghost Town Territory Extends to Puget Sound
Carbonado once a booming coal town near Seattle has become a ghost town after water flooded the 1000 foot main slope of the mine and sealed shaft. Opened fifty years ago by Huntington Hopkins Stanford and Crocker, the mine produced 10 million tons of coal and supported a 25 mile tunnel network. Now only a few miners remain for domestic fuel. Carbonado once housed about 2000 residents and supplied ships and the Southern Pacific Railway.
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Seattle
Carbonado
America
Pacific Northwest
California
Collis P. Huntington
Mark Hopkins
Leland Stanford
Charles Crocker
University of California
Stanford University
Crocker
Puget Sound Harbor
Southern Pacific Railway
Amateur spies irk British Secret Service in London
Scotland Yard reports a surge of amateur foreign spies who enter on legitimate business and gather information at parties and semi official functions. Officials say they are hardest to detect and have prompted increased funding for the secret service after many visiting permits were canceled by British agents in major London hotels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Britain
Scotland Yard
England
Secret Service
KU entomology museum gains Congo insect collection
The University of Kansas entomological museum in Lawrence has received a rare Belgian Congo insect collection. It features a praying mantis with eye like spots on its wings and a large mottle winged adult ant lion.
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Lawrence
Kan
University of Kansas, Entomological Museum
Belgian Congo
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R. Anderson Jardine
George Gamble
Duke of Windsor
France
St. Paul’s Church
Great Britain
By Thornton W. Burgess
Roger 8. Whitman
Billie Burke
Japan
Bilue Burke
Girugag
Rita
D Bell Syndicate
WNU
BY Douglas Malloch
Brotherhood of Man
Leicester K. Davis
Public Ledger, Inc
Lemuel F. Parton
Finger of Brilliting
Woodring
Democratic State Committee
Felicity
Ohio
University of Michigan
Marshall County
Middle-of-the-Roader
Baccalaureate
Rome
Europe
Dr. Angell
Supreme Court
Lohr
New Haven
Erasmus
Nicholas Murray
Butler
Consolidated News Features
Puget Sound
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