Lonely E Leads A Fricassee Free Life
A humorous verse about E living in loneliness without companionship or chicken feed yet finding joy in not being fried as fricassee, turning a bleak setup into a wryly optimistic punchline.
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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1934
Page
10
A humorous verse about E living in loneliness without companionship or chicken feed yet finding joy in not being fried as fricassee, turning a bleak setup into a wryly optimistic punchline.
The piece urges regular spring tonics using fresh rhubarb and dandelion greens, noting winter scarcity of produce. It provides recipes for Rhubarb Roll, Rhubarb and Orange Salad, Tomato Juice Cocktail, Caramel Pudding, and Tomato Surprise Salad, with detailed preparation steps and ingredients.
Visitors at the Smithsonian Institution glimpse a near replica of Eugene Field’s famed purple cow. The exhibit piece is a celebrated fragment linked to the poet’s famous work and his ducking memories.
A humorous exchange about a fortune teller who says a woman has a lovely disposition and a handsome man loves her for a small fee. The gag underscores how money can reveal desirable prophecies and social worth.
A Cincinnati jury valued the injury at $3000 to Helen Zlatin, fourteen, in John H. Druf fel's common pleas court. The suit said her nose was deflected to the right in an accident.
A loaned assortment of Delft and other historic chinaware will be shown in the ceramics division of the arts and industries building. The purple ornate pieces include Staffordshire Spode Bow Worcester Lowestoft Dresden and Sevres, lent by Mrs Francis T Renwood of Baltimore.
The piece notes early uses of bimbo from 1887 with vivid descriptions in the Boston Transcript and Baltimore Commercial Transcript. It explores Italian roots meaning baby and possible links to Barbados rum. It concludes with a late 20th century college slang sense defining a bimbo as a girl with a telephone number.
In Turkey, polygamy is banned since 1926 yet clandestine polygamous unions produced unregistered children. Parents are asked to declare these hidden offspring for citizenship. tens of thousands are being registered under last year’s amnesty, likely boosting census figures from 14 million to 18 million. Only children of illegal unions are recognized. post 1926 polygamous parents cannot register their unions as marriages.
Mrs. Ermina Pena Barboza of Harwich Massachusetts aged 105 perhaps the oldest woman in New England still helps with the family washing. A Cape Verde native she reads the daily papers and credits longevity to regular sleep and meals and abstinence from liquor and tobacco.
A floating flea circus will depart Boston this spring sending 500 male fleas from the Benson animal farm in Nashua New Hampshire to Copenhagen Denmark for experimental purposes as soon as mild weather arrives.
Magistrate Louis B. Brodsky rules Dominick Cassello may not play older tunes on a hand organ near a hospital, shunning classics like After the Ball for modern airs. The debate touches on nostalgia versus era, while public focus shifts to tenement reform and fire safety championed by Langdon W. Post as Jacob Riis’s reforms echo through the city.
A column offers home hacks such as washing ceilings with cloths dampened in water and washing soda, grinding cabbage for slaw with a coarse meat grinder blade, correcting overly salty soup with brown sugar, and repairing chipped china with varnish rubbed by a camel hair brush, claiming strong results.
A lighthearted exchange shows a husband admitting he gets his way by feigning the opposite of his true preference. He explains that by pretending to want the opposite, he influences outcomes without his wife realizing his tactic.
The historic banner of the Texan volunteers at the Alamo, captured in 1836, could be returned to Texas after nearly a century in the National Museum of Mexico. The sky blue flag, fading in a museum case, was carried by the Fourth attack column under Col. Juan Morales during the defense of the Alamo.
New York City woman Helga Blaugh reports losing 4 inches from hips 7 inches from waist in 40 days by taking Kruschen Salts. She says she did not fast, feels well, and looks 10 years younger while using a daily half teaspoon in hot water before breakfast.
A wife admits she knew her husband was a burglar when they married, hoping he would be quiet about the house, as the judge challenges her account.
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