Snake charmer organ grinder in Harlem friend of New York
A husky colored man from Dallas known as Jim Dixon sells wooden snakes across New York. He claims a six month drunken driving tale to charm buyers while admitting the snakes are fake and hand carved. He travels citywide and often sells to Harlem residents, with music from nearby street performances adding to his act.
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Financial District
Uptown
Harlem
Jim Dixon
Dallas
Texas
Fort Worth
New York
Forty-third Street
Hungary
Swart
Yankees
Bronx
Dixon
Sunday Supper Best of Meals
A nostalgic guide to Sunday supper options and cooking notes. It covers waffles and griddle cakes with advice on iron use, batter consistency, preheating times, and baking, plus recipes for cornmeal waffles and various griddle cake batters. A brief 1933 item relates snake business and a sidewalk scene with a parrot shipment and street kids.
Whimsical verses sketch a quirky hunter of fur
A playful poem describes a man who admires a rabbit diet and keeps long whiskers like his northern kin. He enjoys fish and occasionally hunts a fat wild turkey hen, revealing a humorous, rustic appetite.
How It Started By Jean Newton Down in the Dumps meaning explained
The article traces the expression down in the dumps from a music term for a melancholy tune to its modern sense of sadness. It cites Shakespeare and notes the historical shift in usage and meaning.
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Jean Newton
Bell Syndicate
WNU
Junk Shop Extracted From Man's Stomach In St Gallen
A man arrested for theft in St Gallen underwent surgery to remove a miniature junk shop from his stomach. Doctors retrieved broken spoons a safety pin a wood screw window fastenings iron pieces nails and more, with X rays showing additional metal fragments remaining.
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St. Gallen
Switzerland
Home canning tips and kitchen fixes from 1933
A 1933 column offers practical advice from the Associated Newspapers WNU Service. It notes using lemon juice with salt for iron mold on linen, keeping meringue light with water or baking powder, and prepping canning jars with rubbers. Peppermint oil deters mice, guiding readers on household nuisances.
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Associated Newspapers
WNU Service
Locomotive 2717 Declared War Hero and Retired
A battle scarred British War veteran locomotive No. 2717, captured by Germans in Cambrai 1917 and used in No Man's Land, has been withdrawn from service and broken up after a 1,220,000 mile travel record. It was the only British engine ever captured and later recaptured by the British in 1918.
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London
Cambrai
No Man’s Land
Out of Style Dialogue on Spring Thoughts of Youth
A brief exchange contrasts how young men perceive love and poetry in spring. One speaker asks for belief in such thoughts, the other argues that young men rarely pause to think.
Classical Education and Household Regrets Across Time
A column reflecting on patent roofing versus pine shingles, the appeal and limits of a classical education, and the social pull of honesty, regulation, and family life. It contrasts personal experience with public policy ideas and ends with a 1933 Bell Syndicate note.
Oldest Copper Cookware Traces in History and Homes
Copper emerges as the earliest cooking metal from 2320 B C in bronze form and widely used in ancient homes. American colonists brought copper pots and pans, but iron tin and aluminum later eclipsed it in households, while hotels and European kitchens kept solid copperware.
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United States
Baby Could Not Sleep Blisters Over Body
Mrs. Sandy Sowell of Gladys Virginia details a two month rash on her baby that started on the feet with watery blisters. After trying remedies, a reader bought CuticuraSoap and Ointment from Cuthura Laboratories and reports the child was fully healed in about a month. Soap 25c Ointment 25 and 50c Talcum 25c. One sample each free. Address Cuticura Laboratories Dept. R Malden Mass.
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Sandy Sowell
Gladys
Cuthura Laboratories
Dept. R
Malden
Mass
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