Columnist Reflects on Squirrels and Crabgrass at the White House
The columnist notes a hot summer near the Potomac and a neglected White House lawn as he muses on unanswered questions. He recalls a gray squirrel, letters about quack grass versus crabgrass, and a poet gardener Pop who touts mulch. The piece shifts to debate over the OPA, noting lobbying, spontaneous letters, and the impact of citizen communications on Congress.
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WNY Service
Eye Street
N.W
Washington, D. C
Potomac
White House
Ketchiey
Sturgeon Lake
Minn
Akron
Ohio
Robert L
Davis
Thorsby
Alace
Pop
OPA
Senate
Congress
John Q Citizen
Pelion
Ossa
Barbs and Tours Insight Loyalists and Odd Notes
A fragmentary column mentions Charles Gutsikoff taking 60 shirts on a Philadelphia Orchestra tour that runs about 42 days with a stop in Pittsburgh. It also notes a reader inflation note about £940 pills and past $2.75 CM flooring in 1940 and $128 recently, plus a Stalin tulip query and coal industry woes with aging nurses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Gutsikoff
Philadelphia Orchestra
Pittsburgh
Vermont: a land of scenery and notable people
Vermont stands as a thriftful state with a rich history from abolition to universal suffrage. The piece highlights notable Vermonters and landmarks, climate, landscapes, agriculture, industry, and education, emphasizing its Green Mountains, maple production, and prominent natives and developments.
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Vermont
Vermont's 12 Years as an Independent Republic
Vermont existed as an independent republic for 12 years from 1777 to 1791, disputed by New York and New Hampshire and nicknamed New Connecticut before becoming the 14th United State and adopting Montpelier as its capital in 1805. The Green Mountain Boys played a key role in Revolutionary conflicts and Bennington’s towering monument commemorates that battle.
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Poultney
Horace Greeley
Salmon P. Chase
Randolph
Peacham
Thaddeus Stevens
Eugene Field
Newfane
Vermont
Hardy
Samuel Champlain
Canada
Long Lake
la Motte
Isle la Motte
Jacobus de Warm
Chimney Point
University of Vermont
Norwich University
Northfield
Bennington College
Middlebury College
St. Michael’s
Winsocki
Trinity
Burlington
Green Mountains
Killington
Ellen
Lincoln
Camel's Hump
Mansfield
Jay
Green Mountain State
Texas
New York
New Hampshire
Catamount Tavern
Bennington
The
Green
United States
Montpelier
Greater New York Fund
Caler
Newspaperman's Notes on Fame and Flapdoodle
A mosaic of quips and anecdotes on celebrities, reporters, and showbiz figures. Shaw rejects exertion while Sandow boasts, Ann Sheridan misnames Jose Iturbi in Hollywood, Abe Lapidus and Nicol Smith meet in Washington, and Oscar Wilde and others are quoted on temptation and wit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MM. Carter
B. Lytton
Gene Fowler
Susan Cooper
Ben Hecht
Oscar Wilde
Larry Finley
Evelyn Knight
Schopenhauer
Anon
Comfortable Lawn Chair From Pattern 265
A weekend project builds a lawn chair using three stock widths and simple hand cuts. A pattern with bill of materials and cutting diagrams guides assembly. The note touts wartime water proof glues for longer life and offers pattern 265 by mail for 15 cents.
Plant pollination factors include mammals like bats mice
The text notes that pollination is influenced not only by wind water insects birds and humans but also by mammals such as Javanese bats and Australian honey mice.
Kellogg's All Bran Promotes Daily Constipation Relief
An old Kellogg advertisement urges constipated readers to eat Kellogg's All Bran daily with plenty of water. It claims bulk from whole grain helps regulate digestion without being a purgative while providing iron calcium phosphorus vitamins and protein.
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Kellogg’s Allbran
Kellogg’s
Battle Creek
Omaha
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Wiliam Lloyd Garrison
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John F. Winslow
Monitor
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Silver
Mount Mansfield
White Mountains
Adirondacks
St. Johnsbury
Dorothy Cafifield Fisher
Arlington
Robert Frost
Hves
Shoftsbury
Chester A. Arthur
Mt. Mansfield
Mortimer B&. Proctor
George Bernard Shaw
Sandow
Shaw
Hy Gardner
Ann Sheridan
Jose Iturbi
Hollywood
Ann
Jose Shurbert
Ann Schlepperman
Buenos Aires
Gonzaless
Zachary Scott
Nicol Smith
Siam
OSS
Washington
Cloak and Dagger
Smith
Abe Lapidus
Hood
John Powers
Army
Hiroshima
Mike Jacobs
Louis- Conn
Gloria Carnera
Chris Morley
Reuben
Anchor Room
DE Arms
Ruth Wyeth
Bedford Hills
Gisullivan
America
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