Would Make Old Lucullus Blink By Edith M Barber
A nostalgic food essay recounts three dinners with elaborate menus and sample recipes. It blends personal reminiscence with step by step hints like caviar dressing and refrigerator rolls, noting appetizing courses from beef to seafood and desserts.
Lights and Laughter on Palisades Trails
Light of New York era scenes on Sundays and holidays as crowds ride the Dyckman street ferry to Interstate Park atop the Palisades. Campers from 23 states, mountain climbs, and a risky note about the Croton water supply. A Westfield church becomes a beer garden and a joke about a Swedish applicant. A quixotic horse ad fuels a tale of five extra horses. 1933. Bell Syndicate WNU Service.
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Dyckman Street Ferry
Interstate Park
Palisades
New Jersey
Manhattan
Hardy
Palisades Park
Lostlake
Croton
New York
Mary Alice
Andy Freeman
Bell Syndicate
WNU Service
The Baileys at the Fair and the Hudson Park hike
The article describes a park hike along steep paths and a winding road into the rock masses near the Hudson. It notes city views, shelf like cliffs, and giddiness from the river skyline. Hikers travel in parties, often well dressed or with knapsacks, and picnics are common.
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Hudson
Lower East Side
Refrigerator dough recipe bake in hot oven 450 degrees
A compact recipe fragment describes shaping dough into thin rounds, buttering, folding, and letting rise until doubled. Bake in a hot oven at 450 degrees Fahrenheit for about 20 minutes. The note is credited to Bell Syndicate and WNU Service from 1933.
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Frigerator
Bell Syndicate
WNU
Toothache Cure Sent by Radio to Vessel
Boston Chelsea Marine hospital doctors provide a wireless dental prescription for sailors at sea. The instruction: apply oil of cloves to the cavity with cotton, then, if needed, give a drink of whisky.
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Boston
Chelsea Marine Hospital
Robin Disrupted Practice At Wabash Gun Club
Two robins built a nest on the braces of a target at the Wabash gun club causing a temporary interruption to a club practice session.
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Robin
Wabash
Ind
How it Started by Jean Newton
An early piece on the origin of credit and debt collection. It narrates the discomfort of both debtor and creditor in pursuing payment, tracing the term dunn to historical bailiff Joe Dunn and noting the long tradition of debt enforcement from ancient barter to modern money owed.
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Jean Newton
Institution of Credit
Dunn
Joe
Henry ‘VII
Bacon
Belt Syndicate
WNU Servica
Appetizer Ideas From A 1933 WNU Service
A neighbor’s column offers simple fruit juice mixtures for cooling drinks and quick snacks. It suggests mixing juice with ginger ale over ice, spreading peanut butter on crackers and toasting, and assembling appetizers as an evening starter. It also describes bacon wrapped olives broiled on toast rounds as a crisp bite.
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Associated Newspapers
WNU
Painter and Poet Clash Over Poem in Editor Row
A poet recalls a three week hospital stay after an editor rejected a poem and threw the poet down six flights of stairs. The painter frame is tied to the draft and public dispute.
Silver Foxes and Arctic Variants in Farm Pens
A verse comparing silver foxes with red and Arctic foxes, noting silver fur used for high priced collars and the rarity of silver variants. It mentions farmers raising fox cubs in pens instead of cattle or poultry, and ends with a playful appeal not to seek explanations for color.
Howe About Rediscovering Morality in Isolated Wiseman
In Wiseman near the Arctic, Robert Marshall lived alone for over a year and reports a cross section of 127 residents. He found no crime, no newspapers, or welfare workers, yet a surprising majority tested above average intelligence. He argues reformers create artificial troubles and defends individualism over communism, noting shifts in gender roles and respect for work.
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Robert Marshall
Wiseman
Arctic Circle
United States
Marshall
Vitamin utopia hinges on diet says Dr Quigley
Dr D T Quigley of the University of Nebraska Medical College envisions a vitamin utopia where proper eating doubles lifespans and keeps people healthy and active. He notes climate iodine and sea soil would be needed, no sugar or salt, honey allowed, beer containing vitamins, and fat reduction unnecessary.
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D. T. Quigley
University of Nebraska Medical College
Quigley
Liberal education through letters recalls Steele’s remark
A Boston Globe piece notes that a new liberal education comes from letter writing. It highlights how youths aged thirteen to thirty are shaping knowledge through long written exchanges, contrasting with schools and suggesting enduring value in personal correspondence as a formative activity.
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Ruth
Richard Steele
Tatler
Prue
Steele
Boston Globe
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