Kingfisher Home Threatened by Mink in Riverside Tale
A scene from a children story shows Peter the otter anxious as Billy Mink stalks Rattles the kingfisher family at a sandbank. Billy reaches the doorway and, despite Peters pleas, nears the young kingfishers while Rattles returns with a fish and guards them.
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Billy Mink
Peter
Billy
Birds
Rattles
Smiling Pool
Rattles the Kingfisher
T. W. Burgess
Unusual Butters and Herb Flavors
A Home Cooking note shares recipes for Herb Butter Horseradish Butter and Green Butter. Each uses half cup butter with herbs or horseradish and includes serving suggestions for lamb, steak, fish, and greens. The piece ends with a light quote about bathing and a brief attribution to Bel Syndicate WNU service.
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Matilda
Bel Syndicate
WNU
Bound to Clear By Tom Wall Opens A Positive View
Poem attributed to Douglas Malloch through WNU Service features Tom Wall optimistic about weather and harvest. The piece notes perseverance, noting rain and gloom but forecasting clearer skies and productive work ahead. It emphasizes grit and steady effort despite bad conditions.
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Tom Wall
Tom
Douglas Malloch
WNU
Bread riddle hints at worldwide need and appetite
A compact garland of wit from 1932 notes bread as both what the world has and still kneads. The line plays on bread’s universal presence and ongoing demand, reflecting daily life and humor from Bell Syndicate’s WNU Service.
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Bell Syndicate
WNU
Kitty McKay by Nina Wilcox Putnam
A humorous clipping presents BONERS from examination papers and essays. It notes that during the Napoleonic wars crowned heads trembled and offers playful definitions such as a graph being an animal with a long neck and a good orator breathing through his diagram.
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Kitty McKay
Nina Wilcox Putnam
Death Valley Love in the Mojave Desert Tale
In Death Valley a dying woman seeks life with water and love. Bull Graham recalls a past heartbreak while guiding Lonesome June and the desperate girl toward the hotel as she contemplates death and a new relationship. The old man reveals his lifelong romance with the desert.
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Graham
Mojave Desert
Death Valley
Bull
Lonesome June
Jenny
Buzzard
Bull Graham
June
Plum
Los Angeles
Collectivist Power Behind Inca Rulers
Dr. Victor A. Belaunde, a Peruvian scholar, argued at a George Washington University Hispanic Seminar that Inca rulers built a socialistic state by organizing labor on a team-work basis. He said individuals were lazy alone but the race was active collectively, a fact historians often overlook.
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Victor A. Belaunde
George Washington University
Doctor Belaunde
Belaunde
Jackals: Open Range Carnivores Across Continents
Jackals are wild canids of the Canis aureus group found in southeastern Europe, southern Asia, and northern Africa. They hunt in packs at night and feed on carrion and small animals including poultry. They scavenge lion kills and are common in lion country. some believe they may be progenitors of domestic dogs.
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Europe
Asia
Africa
Hole in One Baffles Rye Club Crowd
An unusual hole in one occurred at Rye Country Club New York on the seventeenth hole. Edward J Morrissey tee shot struck a house 50 yards right of the green, caromed back to the edge then rolled into the cup at 108 yards.
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Rye Country Club
N. Y
Edward J. Morrissey
The Great Stone Face Profile in New Hampshire
The Great Stone Face, Hawthorne recorded in 1832, gained fame after Nathaniel Hawthorne visited in 1832 and wrote the tale 16 years later. The fragment notes a 1805 discovery by Nathaniel Hall during partridge hunting for road workers near Profile Lake. Nations seek only to break each other in business, not war.
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Hawthorne
White Mountains
New Hampshire
Nathaniel Hall
Profile Lake
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Slogan Idea Sparks Quick Quip in Louisville Courier
A fragment from the Louisville Courier-Journal captures a brisk exchange on campaign or ad copy with a sharp line about filling the tank. The piece hints at advertising wit and era-typical media banter.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
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France
Somme
Prince of Wales
BY Thornton W. Burgess
Western
Jim Bausch
Jim
Kansas
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Lady Macbeth
Mussolini
King George
On George
England
Royal Navy
Rritania
McClure New Syndicate
Bites
Generous
Saurtock-Neal Co
Nashville
Tenn
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Warsaw
Mass
Lydia E. Pinkham
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