Ignoramus Club Lunch Ends With Side of Disarmament Gag
Stephen Leacock humor piece recreates a club lunch where a dean lectures on disarmament amid lunch temptations. members drift from taboo topics to modern politics yet drift back to golf and gardens as the talk threads through ancient and contemporary history with comic interruptions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Czechoslovakia
Europe
Elderberry
Palmistry
McSorley
Doctor Foible
Sydney Moores
Queen Anne
Dean Yoible
League of Nations
Ignoramus Club
League
Lucarno
Stresa
Catineau
Quebec
England
Hitler
Stephen Leacock
WNU
The Slate Mountain Gold Digging Tragedy
In October 1849 thirty men sought gold near Slate Mountain Colorado and produced about $100000 in ore before early snow forced a halt. Buck Rogers headed back with $500 dust but vanished after a spree. A snow slide wiped out 29 miners, later evidence surfaced but the mine remained lost. James Fulford followed clues but disappeared with the mine unresolved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Slate Mountain
Red Cliff
Colo
Buck” Rogers
Gebriety
Rogers
James Fulford
The Silver Gunsight and the Death Valley Trek
Sixty two men head toward California goldfields with one aiming aid, a crude silver gunsight. After brutal wandering in Death Valley and drought, four survivors press on to San Bernardino where a prospector identifies the silver sight’s origin and motive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sxty
California
Salt Lake City
Sierras
Colorado Desert
Death Valley
Inyo County
George Dennis
San Bernardino
Dennis
Hay Fever Causes and Treatments Shared by Dr. Barton
Dr. James W. Barton explains hay fever as pollen triggered with spring tree types, summer grasses, and autumn ragweed. He cites heredity and nasal deformities as risk factors, and recommends desensitization injections months before symptoms, plus eye and nasal ephedrine remedies. He also warns about intestinal gas, preferred gentle enemas, and cautions against harsh soap suds and high salt enemas.
Festive Trappings Bring Joy to Brides of Moscow
In Moscow during the October quarter, a special room at the registration bureau hosts weddings with bourgeois West style trimmings. It features oriental rugs, hangings, overstuffed furniture, and flowers as brides and a young registrar in formal attire participate. Previously weddings and deaths were recorded in one room, but brides objected to sharing space with widows recording their husbands' deaths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Soviet Russia
Moscow
Brown Hand Bag to Be Crocheted
Crocheted hand bags in brown cotton offer an affordable craft. The kit with 514 by 9 inch bag pattern, crochet cotton, instructions and hook costs 40 cents. zipper and lining not included. Instructions only cost 10 cents. mail to Home Craft Co Dept B St. Louis MO with return envelope.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Address Home Craft Co
Dept. B
Nineteenth and St. Louis Ave
St. Louis
Household Hints From The Pressed Page Of WNU Service
A collection of practical home tips covering fabric care steam methods for wrinkles, sheet reuse as pillow cases, fruit chopper prep with flour and lemon juice, floor cleaning with linseed oil turpentine and water, window polishing with ammonia and tissue, wallpaper stain removal with French chalk, sewing machine oiling technique, borax in starch solution for gloss, ink spills on wood floors cleaned with wire wool, and keeping beef loaf moist by searing in bacon drippings before baking.
Mask as Torture of Affectation Warns Against False Image
The piece cites Arthur Helps on how pretending to be richer, greater, or more learned harms both face and character. It says the mask becomes an instrument of torture, reflecting the social cost of vanity and pretense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur
Consideration on Whistling Depends on Listener Interest
The notion of whistling hinges on whether a person desires to hear it. If the audience is unreceptive, whistling holds little value. if welcome, it becomes a social cue and expression.
Eczema in Big Watery Bumps and Patient Praise
Grateful letters describe eczema relief after using Cuticura Soap and Ointment. A Miss G. E. Reid of 850 Central Ave Hamilton Ohio reports five years of itching and watery bumps ceased after three cakes of Soap and three tins of Ointment. Includes product prices and sample offer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. E. Reid
Central Av
Hamilton
Malden
Mass
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The
Rogues’ Gallery
By Stephen Leacock
Tthat
Babylon
Central America
Dean Elderberry
Editha J. Watsea
SLATE
James W. Barton
Enema
Dr. Barton
Clark
Associated Newspapers
Tere
George
Postum
Buddy
Doctor
C. F
Gunenat Focus
Battle Creek
Mich
W.N. U
U. S
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