May Day Mysteries Stir on Marland Campus
On a perfect May Day at Marland University, senior Tony Peyton discovers Pat Thayer secretly with Ivy Welch in a hidden Bower. Tony confronts Thayer warning him to end the affair, while Ivy professes Engagement, deepening campus tension as Tony vows to act.
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Southern College
Neverending
Marland University
mid-Alabama
Antoinette Peyton
University
Tony Peyton
Marland
Old Main
Larry Welch
Tony
Uliess
Pat
Ivy Welch
Ivy
No-o
Thayer
Pat Thayer
Paterson Thayer
Psi Tau Theta
South
Psi Tau
Larry
The Fable of Becoming Beach Broke
George Ade's satirical tale follows Benny Flicker and Tessie as a self made couple rises from a Bascom Center factory to idle-rich status. In comic form it traces their ascent, public pretensions, and ultimate tax-mired downfall, ending with a blunt moral: The Income Taxes are too High.
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Little Benny
Bascom Center
Odd Fellows
Benny
Tessie
Building and Loan Association
Ben
Newton
Apple
Watt
Paiis
Henry Ford
Elizabeth
Benjamin
Benjamin Flicker
B. Sturtevant Flicker
America Adapted to Nuts as Major Market and Grower
The piece notes the United States leads in peanut production and demand, with imports filling gaps for roasted and processed nuts. It highlights pecan growth, reduced imports post war, and diverse global sources for walnuts filberts Brazil nuts and other varieties, including China Italy France Spain and Turkey.
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China
Italy
France
Spain
Turkey
Brazil
Dame Nature
Amazon
The Black Forest and its Rhine Danube Connection
The Black Forest stands as Baden’s notable feature, a wooded rampart framing views of the Rhine and Vosges to one side and the Swabian Jura to the other. It is a region deeply tied to German heritage and is regarded as the source of the Danube, with debates over its true origin from Donaueschingen’s Furstenberg gardens versus the forest slope itself.
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Black Forest
Baden
Rhine
Vosges
Swabian Jura
Furstenberg Palace
Donaueschingen
Origins of Signing and Stipulation in Language History
The note traces how signing evolved from practical marks to a formal term, linking signing to a cross and stipulation to the Latin stipulari from stipula meaning a stalk. It explains the Roman practice of breaking a thin stick to seal a mutual agreement.
Bed Time Helen and the Bedtime Birds
Bed Time Helen visits a town where many birds roost nightly. The mother explains the birds make noise as they settle in for sleep and a boy chimes in that they are putting on their nighties.
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Helen
U S Farm Exports Boosted by Cotton
The November export index for U S farm products reached 120 percent of pre war, with cotton strong enough that without it the index would drop to 85 percent. Fruit exports rose to 423 percent, cotton 147 percent, and unmanufactured tobacco 144 percent of pre war, while other goods lagged.
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Bureau of Agricultural Economics
United States Department of Agriculture
World Wheat Bins Groan Shipments May Be Larger
The United States Department of Agriculture reports world wheat prospects show heavy stocks from weak demand. July to mid December shipments totaled 261 million bushels versus 355 million last season, leaving exporting nations with larger stocks on December 1, 1932.
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Bureau of Agricultural Economics
United States Department of Agriculture
Bureau
United States
Canada
Australia
Argentina
Missouri
Red W ing man grows apple with red pulp to core
After 12 years in his back yard F H Shoemaker of Red Wing Minnesota produced a russet apple with red pulp. Amateur breeder Burbank created red flesh apples by crossing species. Horticulturists at the state agriculture college plan further experiments to improve quality.
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F. H. Shoemaker
Minnesota
Red Wing
Burbank
State Agriculture College
Pathfinder Magazine
Can Destroy Moths Now In Winter Apple Orchards
Leonard Haseman of the Missouri College of Agriculture urges orchardists to combat the winter moth or apple worm by removing tree bands, scraping bark, and destroying bark scales and winter cocoons.
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Leonard Haseman
Missouri College of Agriculture
Indiana pig crop up 21 percent in 1932
The 1932 fall pig crop in Indiana rose 21 percent from 1931, driven mainly by more pigs saved per litter. Nationwide spring and fall crops show a ~4 percent gain in the corn belt, but total 1932 farrowing was about 4 percent below 1931 per agricultural statistician.
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Indiana
Purdue University
Corn Belt
Worth Thinking Over By The Rev Albert G Butzer
A reflection on self regard vs social approval urging individuals to prioritize personal judgment over public perception, quoting the preacher’s counsel on inner integrity and authenticity.
California treatment promises to cure poor appetite in children
An advertisement touts California syrup of figs as the sole remedy for listless children. It claims the laxative tone stimulates the colon, improves digestion and weight, and cautions buyers to avoid imitations and to seek properly labeled bottles.
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California
Fruits of Labor Quote Reflects Value of Work
A quotation emphasizes that every earned penny represents someone’s hard labor and one’s own effort, highlighting the ethical view of money as a rewards for labor.
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Octavus Roy Cohen
WNU Service
Bell Syndicate
Old
Columbia
Jim
Ocean
City
Howells
Tarkington
Rufus
Blair
Ben Flicker
Chesapeake Bay
America
The
U.S
Albert G. Butzer
New York
IPTEC
St. Louis
Dr. Pierce
Golden
Norman W. Baker
Bartley, Webr
Dean’s
Pann
W.N. U
Lincoln
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