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Newspaper
Patoka Register
Location
Patoka, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1931
Page
3
The article describes polar bears and their cubs living on ice, their sleep cycles, fat storage, and adaptations like tough paw hairs for icy walks. It notes their swimming and feeding habits from seals and walrus to berries, and highlights the bears as the largest and most beautiful of their family.
A period kitchen briefing describes Banbury Tarts with puff paste and a rich filling baked in a hot oven. It also covers Orange Shortcake with orange slices steeped in sugar and served atop buttered shortcake. Sheep Kidneys are skewered with bacon, seasoned, and roasted until bacon browns.
Walter Trumbull recalls a summer in Brides les Bains and cross‑country talk among James and May Preston Huntington Harter of Mansfield and Philadelphians from Wissahickon and Manayunk. A social portrait blends travel, family ties, and a New York wedding quip with hints of solitude and changing roles.
A humorous radio panel riffs on old timer slang about lacking buttons versus tubes, with a quick jab from an Up-to-Dater listener about missing tubes in the set. The exchange captures a lighthearted clash of dated tech terms.
A reader question explores the origin of the term cop for policeman. It notes that the label predates Fernando Wood and derives from the old English cop meaning to catch, asserting a logical link rather than Wood era branding.
Swedish engineer K. B. Ylander of Ostersund has spent six years on an apparatus to eliminate radio fading. Experts prior to now could not determine the cause of fading. The invention was discussed at a recent radio association meeting.
Experts engineers and telegraph officials in Oestersund report a successful test of the invention on programs sent from distant foreign stations, marking a technical milestone in cross border communications.
In anecdotes from a seasoned mariner, Jones is described not as a typical fisherman but a whaler whose stories reveal a daring, expansive craft and a reputation for bold sea ventures.
Sir Flinders Petrie and his wife discover brick built houses over 4 000 years old in Palestine. The site is believed to be Gaza where inhabitants fled around 2000 BC due to illness.
A column offers practical household hints from 1931. Ammonia to clean ovens and prevent browning, make paper funnels to dispense goods, lemon rubs remove marks, properly time eggs and milk in cakes, and inverted crust aims to form a firm edge for pies.
About 200 women in Teheran burial a cloaked emblem of women’s servitude. A grave was dug and cloaks placed inside with the epitaph Here lies the cloak the emblem of women’s servitude Gods curse be upon it.
Geologist Prof. R. T. Chamberlain led a Princeton expedition to the Beartooth mountains Montana where fossil ostracoderms about seven inches long were found embedded in red shale on Beartooth Butte. The fishlike creatures had a bony shell and jointed flippers.
Earl Kropf, a veterinarian, performed a delicate procedure lancing a lump on Nimbo the lion at the Lion Canton Ohio zoo.
A vintage advertisement urges parents to use Castoria for babies and children with colic, cold symptoms, fevers, and digestive upset. It emphasizes gentle action, no harsh drugs, and safety for infants. The copy appeals to doctors and mothers alike, touting Castoria as a trusted children's remedy.
Castoria involved fragrant foliage used years ago for scenting linens bureau drawers and ribbon boxes. Leaves such as lemon verbena rose geranium and other scented geraniums were dried picked and then alcohol added to create a delicately flavored perfume.
An old fashion mustard plaster is praised but a modern external treatment called The Penetrating Germicide is claimed to be superior. The ad promotes this germicide as the only effective external application and offers mail order from Rollins Co. 538 Beverly St Mass with a $1.25 price and an informative booklet. A brief verse about Little Elsie and Uncle Ned ends the item.
The London Opinion notes a muddled quotation about visits and marriage in a fragmentary item. It references a phrase about bringing something and a marriage line connected to a girl, with unclear context.
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