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Newspaper
Saline Observer
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1932
Page
7
Jake, oldest of four boys, secretly enters a Y M C A pie eating contest after missing the football game. He wins three dollars and buys presents for each sibling while his family learns of his success and dinner becomes a celebration.
This article describes making miniature doll house furniture from two pasteboard boxes. Use the box cover and one box section for two stories, cut sides, and form three provided pieces plus additional items. Dressing patterns can be altered to craft a bed and a sturdier table with paper strips, and a couch can be created by widening the center portion of the dresser pattern.
Lights of New York featured a Wynn versus Hazzard golf match at the Sound View course in Great Neck Long Island. The scene drew actors managers writers and a few golfers with high stakes betting and tense play before Frank Craven overtook the duel.
A 1933 Western Union clipping outlines appealing recipes for Orange Cream and Tapioca Cream plus cookies and fillings. It describes gelatin-orange desserts with whipped cream, a tapioca pudding, and varied sauce options. It also mentions Club Cookies with prunes and apricots and a note about meeting the Boston Braves in New York with Bill McKechnie.
A ceremonial welcome in Boston honors Henry Gowdy, recalling his service in World War I and his return to baseball. Mayor Andrew J. Peters lauds Gowdy as a patriot while fans raise a fund for a lasting token of esteem, a diamond ring, amid crowd applause.
The piece explains the saying none of you knows where it pinches but he that wears it, tracing to a Roman general Lucius Aemilius Paulus who divorced his wife and used the line to justify his action. It notes the origin dates to 229 to 160 B C and appears in a 1932 Bell Syndicate feature.
Great Falls Montana reports 78 buffalo hides tanned locally and sent to 14 national parks and the national park service in Washington. Hides from the Yellowstone park herd were distributed among Rocky Mountain Glacier Grand Canyon Colonial Monument Zion Wind Cave and other parks with totals to Washington and various parks.
New Bedford pass holder Timothy J. O Leary who earned the Purple Heart says he wore the smallest uniform in World War I. At enlistment he stood 5 feet 2 inches, wore size 5 shoes and served with New York’s Fighting Sixty‑Ninth. He once was an orderly to Col. William J Donovan and stood within 20 feet of Joyce Kilmer when Kilmer was killed.
A reader quote about fairness cites rising divorce costs exceeding the price of a marriage license, highlighting concerns over equity in marital dissolutions. The discussion underscores financial strain tied to formalizing separations.
A Carlyle aphorism cautions that excessive scribbling dulls thinking, urging restraint and clarity in expression.
A fragmented note offers home guidance: rub walnut scratches with shelled walnut oil until absorbed, then polish with a soft cloth. It mentions strawberry jam atop ice cream, alternating layers in a tall glass, and using other jams likewise. It also includes stray instructions about raisins in cakes and an electric bulb stocking tip.
The article argues that Jerusalem has long inspired composers across two millennia. It cites biblical figures and major composers from Lassus to Bach, Handel, Mozart, and Gounod, noting sacred works tied to Christ and the apostles. It links Jerusalem’s history to musical creativity and the dramatic instinct in poetry and music.
A brief exchange features Miss Cayenne joking that golf can be tiresome while noting the speaker has a friend who talks about it endlessly. The light quip pokes fun at the game and social banter surrounding it.
Dialog between companions on future wealth and attitude. A witty line about park benches being upholstered and contrasting views on difficulty versus ease. The exchange emphasizes practical humor and a proverb style reflection.
An old ad describes Mercolized Wax promising youthful skin with weekly applications and dissolving powders for wrinkles. It also notes a product claim about “Lassite” powder and hazel mixture for wrinkle removal. A separate piece discusses a Jivaro bridal blouse custom weaving requiring months of work, with women sewing skirts and men wearing only skirts.
A fragment describes a scalp care regime with Cotients Ointment and Cuticara Soap, claiming hair health improvement and relief from minor eruptions. Mentions pricing by unit and a Malden Massachusetts department source. Also notes Fraulein Brunhilde, a German giantess in London, about eight feet tall and unable to ride regular taxis.
A sixteen year old craftsman in Frosinone Italy won back his job after employers learned that verses written inside women's shoes boosted sales. The discharged boy can now write poetry on the inner leather as part of his revived employment.
Michael Obradovich of Belgrade Yugoslavia was sentenced to five years of hard labor for swindling twenty five fiancés over five years and ordered to repay every cent. Several victims offered to pay his fine if he would marry, but he chose prison.
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