Why of Superstitions by H Irving King
The ebb tide belief sinks into continental roots from New England to Old England. The essay links death with tidal ebb and flood, citing Shakespeare Dickens and Tennyson, noting ancient Aristotle and Pliny supported similar views. It discusses sea mystique and the life cycle as primal return to source, framing superstition as a natural analogy.
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New England
Old England
Dickens
Barkis
David Copperfield
Tennyson
Shakespeare
Falstad
Aristotle
Pliny
Meche
Superstitious Sue Poker Tip Column
A McClure Newspaper Syndicate column advises players to use the old bean and play with the grain on the table to invite lady luck while poker games unfold. The piece presents a lighthearted superstition approach to gaming.
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McClure Newspaper Syndicate
What is friendship in steel and gold
A short poem by Douglas Malloch questions friendship through steel and gold imagery. It argues true friends endure strain, with steel that bends not and gold that does not rust, shining brightest in hard times. The piece emphasizes steadfast loyalty over mere surface warmth.
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Ike
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Time and Hour Chorus in a Quiet Evening
A compact verse celebrating the thrush as a timekeeper, eschewing clocks. The speaker finds delight in the bird’s song marking evening hours while feeling the noon within, musing on time’s intimate, natural rhythm. The poem pairs nature’s cadence with human perception of hours.
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Jean Dwight Franklin
Be Wise With Kids Drinks In Hot Weather
The article warns mothers against giving tea or coffee to children in hot weather as it can make them nervous and hinder growth. It promotes milk as a daily staple and suggests using milk in cereals, soups, desserts, and other dishes, while recommending lemonade and fruit drinks as safer, refreshing options. It discourages ice cream for youths, noting it is high in fuel for the body and raises temperature. It endorses orange juice and similar drinks as better refreshments.
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Inman
Postum Company, Inc
Battie Creek
Michigan
Silence Hurts Neighbors Says BeClure Newspaper Verse
A verse argues the pain caused by silent disdain between neighbors, urging empathy and loving one another. It laments hushed slights that ruin reputations and souls, and urges planting goodwill to harvest happiness together along life’s road.
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BeClure Newspaper
Barthelmess Discharged After Tank Camp Lewis Dream
After six weeks in an intense campaign Richard Barthelmess and his English Leather Kid company were honorably discharged from the U S Army at Camp Lewis Washington. A war spectacle screened included 50 large United States tanks with 3000 regulars and 600 civilians watching. An extra asked to enlist in the tanks, answering that he is a pretty good swimmer.
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Richard Barthelmess
Patent Leather Kid
United States Army
Camp Lewis
Washington
United States
Richard
Echoes of Wit and Moonlit Musings in Tit-Bits
A fragment from Tit-Bits offers playful banter about dukes and fortunes, Eloise on a roof with a telescope, and a joke about language. It muses that the chronic could populate a desert island, laments no fountain of perpetual youth, and ponders why the moon is called silver for its halves and quarters.
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Eloise
Aetter
Laughing In Your Sleeve Origin In Fashion History
The piece traces how the phrase laughing up one’s sleeve arose from ancient and modern sleeve styles. It notes that tight season sleeves offer little room for expressions while bell sleeves recall classical fashions. The term survives as a metaphor for hidden amusement.
New Kind of Nerve in Colored Woman’s Tale
A colored woman relates to a North Side matron a tale about a friend with defective eyes. She notes the condition likely cannot improve as the nerve is described as being obstacle nerve affected, reflecting dated language on disability.
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North Side
Woman and Wife Wit and a Final Mistake
A collection of quips and snippets from a newspaper page includes a woman noting her wife reads the papers for answers, a comic misquote about husband and wife, Bath mineral waters tinting glass, and brief jests on poetry and virtue.
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Bath
England
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Gene Carr
Gucclue Newspaper Syndicate
H. Irving King
Bill
By Douglas Malloch
Fife
Feeeet
Western Newspaper Union
F. A. Walker
Lica
Barbara Bourjaily
Pexel Company
Chicago
John
Montreal Star
Wii
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