Farmer in City Seeks Time to See Town
A farmer staying at a city hotel asks the clerk about meal hours and wonders when he will have time to explore. The clerk explains meals run 7 to 11 for breakfast, 12 to 3 for dinner, and 6 to 8 for supper.
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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1936
Page
7
A farmer staying at a city hotel asks the clerk about meal hours and wonders when he will have time to explore. The clerk explains meals run 7 to 11 for breakfast, 12 to 3 for dinner, and 6 to 8 for supper.
A Chicago era style note recalls Brother Simpson asking about meekness and patience. The reply uses a farming metaphor with mules and corn to show a club’s greater effectiveness. The Brooklyn Eagle tone frames a spoke lesson in everyday virtue.
Quilt pattern for a tulip themed applique titled Pride of the Garden offers an inexpensive, easy project for all ages. Includes cutting sewing finishing yardage diagram and block guide for single and double bed sizes with contrasting material tips. Send 15 cents to The Sewing Circle Needlecraft Dept 82 Wight Ave New York NY.
A humorous domestic exchange shows a wife lamenting lack of praise and a husband retorting that a manager would not throw compliments like a fan. Both voices playfully reveal marital expectations and humor.
A collection of old home hacks covering cooking, cleaning, and storage. Tips include dissolving fish bone with lemon juice, lowering gas stove flames to save fuel, reheating gravy separately, whipping gelatin to thicken, flouring cake tops for frosting, storing soap, trimming wallpaper selvage, using kerosene or tobacco dust to deter plant lice, and serving lettuce without water on leaves to ensure dressing sticks.
Yale Semitic expert Dr. Julian J. Obermann announces discovery of a prebiblical Semitic language from Ras Shamra tablets near Antioch Syria. The tablets claim a 30-sign alphabet linking cuneiform writing to alphabetic script offering a new key to ancient and modern alphabets.
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