D Annunzio’s Goldfish Grave in Versailles and Other Anecdotes
Gabrielle d Annunzio once visited Versailles seeking a grand writing setup and, after writing a French verse play for Ida Rubinstein, left a quirky tale of a goldfish’s death. Bischoff buried the fish in the garden by instruction, a Sardine grave later marked, and the episode echoed recalls of a canary and a police stop on a London bridge.
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Rudolph Bischoff
New York
Westbury
Trianon Palace
Versailles
Gabriele d'Annunzio
Ida Rubinstein
St. Sebastian
d’Annunzio
Pyrenees
Bis
Mr. Bischoff
Galvinni
Gabriele d’Annunzio
d'Annunzio
Preparing Rice and Meringues From a Home Column
Readers’ questions cover gelatin substitutes using agar-agar and marshmallows, Chinese method for cooking rice, and making lemon meringue pie. Includes a pear marlow recipe and agar-agar lemon jelly, with baking guidance and tips to prevent meringue shrinking.
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China
Slow to Get There Stalker Joke Rings Like Old Windy
Fragmentary quote paints Windy as a slower pursuer and a pun about a stalker and a sharpened pencil. The exchange hints at patience and timing in a humorously literal way.
How It Started By Jean Newton
An article discusses the expression the Old Adam and its meaning. It notes the idea of human tendency toward evil, tracing origins to Adam and referencing Shakespeare in Henry V. The piece explains variations like the offending Adam and the common use of the phase today.
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New York
Queensborough
Jean Newton
Shakespeare
Bell Syndicate
WNU
City People Flocking to Georgia Farmhouses
Valdosta area tenants fill every habitable dwelling as city migrants move to farms. They shelter families in vacant houses, make leases with landlords, and seek a crop income despite lacking funds for farming or feeding until harvest.
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Georgia
Valdosta
Bearded Wild Man Reported Near Bowie Texas Cave
A bearded long haired man, likened to Tarzan, allegedly scales rocks and trees with ease near Bowie. Visitors to a local cave report the man appears to flee or float away as they approach.
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Texas
Bowie
Tarzan
My Neighbor SAYS Bat Salt Before Cooking
Reader tips on cooking and home hacks including salted bat advice and kitchen tricks. Practical steps cover searing meat finishing, glueing chair glides, and slicing fresh bread with a heated knife. White sauce method uses milk flour butter salt stirred with an egg beater for smooth results.
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Associated Newspapers
WNU
Daphne Chooses Geoffrey Over Pete At Garden Party
Daphne Baker flirts with Geoffrey Collins after choosing to dance with him at a unemployed relief garden party. Pete By, a stubborn, protective figure, watches her drift from him and imagines a bungalow by the river with Daphne. The scene ends with Daphne choosing Geoffrey and Pete clinging to a hopeful dream.
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Eter
Peté
Pete
Daphne Baker
Daphne
London
Geoffrey Collins
Geoffrey
Ripay Hill
Safe for Her He Aren't You Afraid of Sharks
A light exchange on fear of sharks yields a playful reply about man eating specimens nearby, implying local danger or superstition in a casual conversation.
Phoenix Rise Ends Wiggins Corner Name Era
In 1933 the Texas town formerly known as Wiggins Corner adopted the name Phoenix and organized a boosters club to promote local growth and civic pride. The change marked a fresh start for the community and its businessmen.
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Wiggins Corner
Texas
Phoenix
Boosters
Modesto Man Faints After Vanity Charge Arrest
Peter Dussell, 44, was arrested on a vacancy charge in Modesto California. He received a bath haircut and shave before fainting after looking in a mirror.
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Modesto
Calif
Peter Dussell
Dussell
Memory Tricks for Fun and Mental Skills
An article presents several memory challenges and imagination tests. It lists a mixed set of items to memorize, backward digit sequences, and a vivid read aloud paragraph, followed by a game matching famous names to fictional telephone numbers.
Time Brings Change Beckington Abbey to Become Club
A Bath syndicate plans converting Beckington Abbey Tear Frame England once home to a religious order into a dance club and restaurant reflecting modern business boundaries.
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Beckington Abbey
Tear Frame
England
Bath Syndicate
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Farrer
Tumover
Matt McGrath
County Tipperary
Bell. Syndicate
WNU Service
United States
Wright Field
Dayton
Ohio
Edith M. Barber
WNU Servica
Poland
Moscicki
Bialowics
Adam
Peter
Dorothy Douglas
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
WNO Service
Cheerio
Dorothy Edmonds
Herbert Hoover
Lexington
Manude Adams
Stony Brook
Lionel Barrymore
Murray Hill
S. Parkes Cadman
Lincoln
Sinclair Lewis
Framingham
William Shakespeare
Paddington
Western Newspaper Union
Caldwell
da. W. B. Caldwete
Doctors
Meh Daliahd Faye
Tera
Anaes
Dean’s
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