Foods That Are Easily Digested by Edith Barber
Digestive efficiency varies by food type and preparation. Normal digestion relies on balanced acid levels and gut bacteria, including acidopholus, with dairy, yeast, and whole grains aiding digestion. Practical tips include eating moderate portions, avoiding tainted foods, and using gentle remedies like baking soda or physician guidance for persistent issues.
Quotations on complexion dope sell in drugstore dialogue
A comic exchange shows a customer declaring nature unbeatable while a druggist touts a large stock of complexion enhancing products. The humor hinges on overconfident claims and a salesman’s pragmatic sales pitch.
Lights of New York humorous anecdotes and odd notices
Gene Byrnes tells of a mountain golf pro who charges ten dollars an hour and condemns every club in the bag before selling a new set. Grantland Rice recalls a southern pro who taught by watching others, then charged for long practice. A satirical ad in the Herald Tribune lists a humorous full-serve household helper for sale. A Belvedere Towers observatory thermometer in Central Park measures sunburn effects with a black vacuum-tube setup.
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Grantland Rice
Down South
Belvedere Towers
Central Park
Sieve strained bean mixture and sautéed liver recipe notes
A recipe fragment describes draining and pureeing onions and carrot with beans, then whisking a milk sauce into the mixture. It also outlines boiling, skinning, seasoning, and frying liver with bacon fat optional, five minutes, and mentions a 1933 Bell Syndicate service note. The piece also includes weather and street commentary from Chicago and New York observations.
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Bell Syndicate
WNU
How It Started By Jean Newton
A concise essay defines cranks as people with fixed notions and eccentric traits. It traces the term to Donn Piatt who likened persistent opinion holders to a barrel organ crank. The piece notes Piatt applied the word to Horace Greeley, framing the evolution of the label.
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Jean Newton
Bernard Shaw
Donn Piatt
Horace Greeley
Bell Syndicate
WNU
Pennsylvania bath singing law questioned by Californians
California reports circulate that Pennsylvania prohibits singing in the bathtub. Richard J. Beamish, secretary of the commonwealth, received a request from a Pennsylvanian compiling obsolete laws. He was told the legislature has not interfered with bathtub singing.
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California
Pennsylvania
Richard J. Beamish
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Gray Fox Ventures At Night In Rural Landscape
The poem describes a gray fox prowling after mice in wheat fields by moonlit nights. He may encounter other game like squirrel or quail and reacts by sniffing or moving on. If meat proves scarce he seeks berries in a patch, showing a varied diet and cautious behavior. The speaker fears nighttime visits to protect hens.
Man Dreams Plot Then Realizes It Matches Magazine
A man obsessed with finding a plot awakes from a vivid dream to type notes. He shares the idea with his wife who reveals he already read the same story in a magazine the night before. He explains his life spent in Massachusetts, craving a Pacific coast name sake.
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Massachusetts
Pacific Coast
Curiosity Drives Man to Cross United States
Maurice Witzgerald, forty, from Bellingham Massachusetts, traveled to Bellingham Washington to see if the West Coast city matched his hometown. He crossed the country solely from curiosity and was noted by local authorities.
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United States
Bellingham
Wash
Maurice Witzgerald
Mass
Household Tips From 1933 WNU Service
A collection of domestic advice notes from 1933 covers table care using a brush dipped in spirits of water and machine oil, sweetening whipped cream with honey, cleaning painted walls with baking soda, and avoiding bananas in the ice chest to prevent odor and color changes.
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Associated Newspapers
WNU Service
Depositor Questions Cash as Bank President Evades Arrest
A depositor confronts a bank about missing funds while the bank president leaves town to avoid arrest, prompting questions about financial irregularities and potential scandal.
Girl Kept Chained Eight Years in Tank in Argentina
Police in Rosario report Aurelia Boniparte twenty two was found chained inside an iron tank in an emaciated speechless state. Arrested suspect Juan Guyama, a rejected suitor, confessed to kidnapping her eight years ago and imprisoning her in the tank.
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Rosario
Argentina
Aurelia Boniparte
Juan Guyama
Weight of brains of three year old gorilla Okero
Okero a three year old gorilla in the National Zoological Gardens of Washington was studied by Dr. Connolly. The brain weighed 466.6 grams and could have grown to about 1100 grams if he lived. The text notes a human brain typically weighs over 907 grams and jokes that intelligent men have brains equivalent to three gorillas.
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Okero
National Zoological Gardens of Washington
GC. J. Connolly
Laughing at Troubles Small Comfort Not Paying Bills
A humorous saying notes that while laughter can ease strain it does not settle financial duties. The line contrasts mood relief with real monetary needs, implying practical action is required to cover expenses.
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