Nimbleheels and Peter the Jumping Mouse Tale
Nimbleheels explains his long tail helps balance for long jumps while Peter admits his own tail is useful as a guide to keep youngsters from getting lost. Nimbleheels carries his tail behind him and stresses the need to protect it, as losing it would affect his landing. The tale ends with both characters reflecting on tail importance.
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Eter Rabbit
Peter
Brier
Nimbleheels
Nimblehee
Canape varieties from caviar to lobster with buttered bread
A vintage guide outlines canape recipes using toast rounds topped with caviar eggs mushrooms anchovies tomato cucumber and crab or lobster. Each item details simple seasonings lemon juice onion juice garlic mayonnaise and light sauces for elegant finger foods.
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Western Newspaper Union
Judges Simple Rules for Marital Happiness From Sabath
Chicago judge Sabath, who presides on thousands of cases and reconciles many couples, offers simple rules to avoid divorce. He cites waving goodbye, patience, teamwork, calm discussion, frankness, shared responsibilities, and daily prayers as the core path to lasting harmony.
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Chicago
Sabath
Fragmented reading snippets from a 1930s text
The passages cover diverse topics including Prussia soil hardship, Uncle Tom’s cabin as an underground railway station, metals arsenic antimony and Bismarck, Shelley’s death in the Gulf of Leghorn, views on cruelty to animals versus slaughter of inanimate life, and a quote about age and brain development. The ear shell snail in the Channel islands is noted for a speed of six yards per minute.
You Are My Music By Anne Campbell
A brief verse extols a loved one as music that sustains the writer through daily life. The lyric promises a heavenly note when the beloved is no longer heard, signaling readiness to heed a divine melody.
Brakes for heated married life urged in old advice column
The piece likens couples to a downhill vehicle and promotes using brakes as rules to pause, calm resentments, and then follow simple, self-evident steps. It argues stopping to think is the key, aligning actions with genuine desires. Bell Syndicate WNU Service.
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Irene
Bell Syndicate
WNU
Poise and Charm Explored by Charity Lectures in New York
A charity series in New York will feature experts from beauty, acting, fashion, poetry and art to answer What is charm. The piece notes charm resists definition, requiring a mix of goodness humor steadiness and inner self sufficiency that many never reveal.
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New York
Bell Syndicate
WNU
Family Quilt preserves history with sheer records
A Sussex Wisconsin woman created a transparent silk quilt that hides old letters and family mementos. The silk allows the records to be read by pressing through, keeping the heirlooms well preserved. The idea contrasts with the usual Bible or album storage mentioned by the Boston Post.
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Boston Post
Sussex
Wis
Grifith’s Hidden Motives and Pierce’s Pellets Ad Remix
In a Literary Digest aside D W Griffith criticizes big business and Ford for chasing transport goals without clear purpose. An advertising note touts Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets as original liver pills promoting liver and bowel health for 60 years.
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Dr. Pierce
Fungus Destroys Car Tops Proves Tough in Lab Tests
A fungus that ruins motor car tops by eating wooden hoops and sometimes fabric is found to be long lived by lab tests. It can grow and reproduce even after five years in completely dry conditions.
When Little Girls Show Temper A Child Health Tip
A health advice column urges calm discipline through gentle bowel care. It promotes pure California Syrup of Figs as a safe laxative to keep children regular without harming appetite, arguing a sluggish bowels affect behavior and mood.
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California
Open Question on Gift of Gab and Modesty
Quoted aphorisms note that the gift of gab remains debatable while urging moderation in modesty. The Lafayette Journal and Courier quotes the question and Wallace Broun’s remark on humility.
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Lafayette Journal and Courier
Lleywood Broun
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BY Thornton W. Burgess
T. W. Burgess
WNN Service
Craig-Dhu
Merioneth
Wales
Prussia
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Shelley
Gulf of Leghorn
Channel Islands
Giriigagsp
Harlow Higginbotham
Joliet
Ill
Pada
Womans Eyes
Jean Newton
By Anne Campbell
D. W. Grifith
Henry Ford
Literary Digest
Smith
Tom
Waite
General Foods
Battle Creek
Mich
W.n
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