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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1933
Page
3
A playful verse describes a fisher as long and slow on land but swift in trees. It lists its diet including fish frogs porcupines mountain beavers and a shrew. The poem warns that the fisher is a fierce foe to small animals and a threat on the trail for foxes and cotton-tails.
A practical guide to shortening kitchen work in hot weather. It outlines two plans: prepare and store baked items like roasts cookies and pastries ahead for multiple days, or use quick dishes with bakery desserts. A baking day can cut daily cooking time and fit modern fridges for bulk prep.
A terse exchange unfolds with an anxious speaker confessing a kiss and the other reacting with a mix of surprise and playful insistence. The dialogue hints at impulsive romance between two unnamed individuals.
A 1933 WWNU Service item offers tips from a reader on home care. Lavender oil can deter mold in damp weather a soap and magnesia wash cleans a white raincoat using a nail brush. It also suggests soaking beans rice and dried fruits overnight and trimming pie crust after fitting it to the pan.
Miss Marion T. Chapin of Providence escaped serious injury after a lightning flash startled her as a storm hit Chicopee Massachusetts. She lost control of the car which skidded on hail and rolled down a 40 foot embankment, leaving the vehicle wrecked.
A weekend meal outline lists Friday dinner of broiled swordfish and parsley potatoes with tomato salad, Saturday lunch featuring crab salad and bread and butter, followed by tea and cookies, and weekend dinners including veal leaf with tomato sauce, creamed potatoes, and cucumber salad. Sunday features oven fried chicken, baked sweet potatoes, corn on cod, romaine, ice cream, and cake with a Sunday supper of cold veal leaf and ginger ale, plus ahead prep like icebox rolls.
In a 1933 Bell Syndicate World News service piece, Clifford W. Hart ridge recalls past fame and meets a contact on West Forty third Street. He cites criminal pay scales for racketeering acts, detailing per person costs from theft to murder and bombings.
A 1933 menu plan and notes on the Harry K. Thaw trial history are presented. The text covers a Luncheon menu including gelatin salads and baked ham, then shifts to Irvin S. Cobb wires and Jerome the trial, focusing on Clif ford W. Hartridge, Thaw’s attorney, his disbarment, and later suit against the Thaw family.
John Barleycorn is used as a personifying symbol of hard liquor. The piece notes long held debates about barley based drink, traces the Barleycorn name to innkeeper links, and cites the 1683 song Sir John Barleycorn as earliest recorded use.
The Great Western Railway begins daily air services between Cardiff and Plymouth under a 4 year old act. The flight time is just under one hour, versus over four hours by rail, marking a new use of air transport to meet highway competition.
A hungry patron voices dissatisfaction with a canvas, and the artist admits the work suffered from hunger, saying he had not eaten for three days. The exchange underscores how deprivation affected the creation of art.
In Boston Captain Joseph A A Wilson of the U S A donated a trophy for the Dumb Flyers. The event references a 1933 court of inquiry and mentions pilots and errors in flying. The text is garbled but indicates a prize linked to aviation mishaps with an uncertain beneficiary.
A broad essay argues Americans should abandon excess work and pursue richer leisure and self improvement. It cites finance schemes, health, home beautification, public clubs, and reading, while laments political and intellectual decline since the Civil War, with anecdotes about Bernard Shaw and English wit.
In New York the Bolingworth proxy plot centers on Jeffries Sanderson and Aurelius Smith. A val uable proxy paper vanishes as a plane roars away, but Smith reveals an empty envelope hid in his pocket after a staged distraction. The trio confronts the maid and a rat trap ruse.
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