Potlikker and Greens: How to Cook and Use Local Foliage
Controversy over pot likker aside, the article explains its health value and lists greens from dandelion to spinach, detailing washing, minimal water cooking, and serving ideas. It notes wild greens as common weeds now sold in markets and offers spinach with sour cream and other recipes with clear instructions.
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Bureau of Plant Industry
Washington
Nature
South
American Animals Collared Peccary Poem
A short poem describes the peccary, its social bands, diet including nuts figs jungle fruits lizards and roots. It notes the animal's sharp tusks and tendency to flee when humans appear, contrasting with other swine and mentioning twins rather than larger groups.
Vain Efforts in a Playful Exchange
A brief exchange centers on a man defending his actions and a woman retorting that his efforts are vain. The dialogue hinges on affection and perception in a light moral tone. The scene captures a moment of flirtatious tension between two characters.
Paul Pry Expression Traced Through Century
The column recalls the long history of the term Paul Pry meaning a busybody. It notes the expression signals meddling in others affairs and hints at moral judgment attached to such behavior.
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Paul Pry
Buttinsky
Bowery Life and Tricks Reveal Seasonal Struggles and Gags
The Bowery houses seasonal workers who move southward in winter for cheap living and drink while others remain idle due to poverty and weakness. A revived occult gag uses card names to play on a newspaper syndicate, with Sam representing the ace of spades and initials shortening the deck to thirteen designations.
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Bowery
Sam
Tom Geraghty
Hollywood
Herald
Geraghty
Bell Syndicate
WNU
Teaspoonful vinegar and oven caution for baking
A 1933 cooking tip advises adding a teaspoon of vinegar to fish water to firm and whiten flesh. It warns against opening the oven door for five minutes after placing cake in, and notes that jarring the cake can deflate it. Lemon juice can substitute vinegar except in pickling.
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Associated Newspapers
WNU
Bowery Bums Depend On Street Life For Survival
The article depicts Bowery transients living in poverty and relying on panhandling for nickels and dimes to buy dubious alcohol, food from garbage, and shelter in crowded lodging houses. It notes the bleak “shock joints” where cheap drinks and long lines prevail, often ending in death-like awakenings and unmarked graves on Hart's Island.
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Bowery
Hart’s Island
Nursing the Cold In Workplace Health Plans
The piece notes that employees with colds should stay home for a day or two to prevent spread and that in some firms sunlight treatments are tried with records showing fewer and milder colds.
Protect the Fingers Rubber Finger Stall Use for Kitchen Tasks
A rubber finger stall protects thumbs and forefingers from stains and cuts during fruit and vegetable prep. It is suitable for office or home use and helps keep hands clean while paring produce.
Chinese Girl Holds Air Pilot's License
Hazel Ying Lee, a 20 year old American-born Chinese woman in Portland, Oregon, has earned a Department of Commerce pilot license and works as an elevator operator while studying aviation. She plans to travel to China to recruit Chinese women into flying and is noted as an accomplished stunt aviator with training in loops, spins, and other aerial maneuvers.
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Portland
Ore
Hazel Ying Lee
Miss Lee
China
Oregon
Department of Commerce
Seeing in the Dark
A brief dialogue contrasts beauty and perception as a speaker questions finding charm in a very dark face. The exchange highlights judgment based on appearance and raises questions about what counts as beauty.
Day Dreams Not To Be Confined To Fantasy
Dr Edwin G Fleming cautions against letting day dreams replace real effort. He notes dreams arise from unmet wants and can spur achievement if actively translated into action, but danger comes when one mistakes shadows for reality and stops pursuing the actual dream.
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Edwin G. Fleming
The
Scientific Monthly
Beware of Bad Ones Habits Are at First Cobwebs
A compact note warns that bad habits begin as faint cobwebs and tighten into binding cords, urging vigilance against small slipping delights that grow into lasting constraints.
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