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Sonny sits on a step musing about trees shedding clothes in winter and putting them on in summer as a humorous thought from The Automobilist.
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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1936
Page
6
Sonny sits on a step musing about trees shedding clothes in winter and putting them on in summer as a humorous thought from The Automobilist.
A mother admonishes four year old John for handling her purse while he insists he was helping. He claims to have licked stamps to prepare letters, illustrating a curious, affectionate scene of everyday domestic life.
In a witty Annapolis Log item a salesman laments a lifelong misfit as he admits wearing left shoe on the right. Strawfoot jokes he has been club footed for twenty years, adding a light note on footwear mixups.
Recipe fragment for Orange Pecan Waffles with 14 percent cups flour salt sugar baking powder and Jewel Shortening plus eggs milk orange marmalade and pecans. Instructions include mixing dry ingredients and wet components then cooking on a waffle iron and serving with Orange Fluff made by beating cream with sugar and marmalade.
A fragmented list links colors with disparate items and moods. The passage pairs Blue with optimism and ink, Green with jealousy and immigration, Purple with rage and odd socks, and White with a baby's soul lilies and laundry. Other entries mention wives, vegetables, paint, and various life motifs.
A quotation attributed to C Kingsley considers goodness as the beautiful, supreme form and badness as the ugliest. The line emphasizes goodness as the world's most striking quality and contrasts it with ugliness.
An old advertisement warns toward nagging and mood discomfort, urging use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for menstrual and functional disorders. The copy portrays marital strain and claims the product helps nature tone the system, promising relief from cramps and nerves.
The guidance suggests asking for product samples through merchants or by mail and then buying the merchandise from local merchants if satisfied, promoting local shopping and direct inquiry. The advice emphasizes evaluating samples before committing to purchase locally.
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