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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1930
Page
2
A poem praising simple riches in family love and health. The speaker counts life, a spouse, children, home, friends, work, and a guiding light as true wealth, beyond gems or gold. The verse ends affirming the gift of health and enduring love as the gold God meant.
Some species grow to about 500 pounds with the black sea bass and the black jewfish highlighted as notable examples.
A 1930 Western Newspaper Union feature offers simple, quick lunch ideas for serving children. It suggests tiny cream puffs, olives wrapped in bacon, fruit salads, crostaches, sardines on toast with cheese, spiced ham, and caviar eggs on toast. Recipes include lemon fish sauce, ginger orange marmalade sandwiches, poached eggs with caviar, and anchovy scrambled eggs for easy, tasty meals.
A short quirky note urges trimming finger nails on Monday and clearing medicine bottles and pill boxes to promote health, attributed to the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.
Chicago recalls a Mark Twain moment from November 12, 1879, at Haverly’s theater when General Grant requested Twain’s words. After banter, Twain joked he could not deliver a good impromptu speech without hours to prepare, a quip reported by the Chicago Evening Post.
The text notes that the Indians likely followed trails already used by bisons to reach salt. These animals needed salt, and their journeys away from grazing grounds led herds to the lowest mountain passes and easiest routes.
A detailed account describes the White Ash tree from its height of 60 to 80 feet and gray furrowed bark to smooth grayish green branches and rusty buds. It notes 7 to 9 leaflets per leaf, usually seven, with dark green tops and silvery white undersides, its pest resistance, folklore about lightning and snakes, and historical uses for bow paddles and agricultural implements.
Artistic manuscripts brighten texts with vignettes and colors or gold. Fifteen centuries before Christ, papyrus Book of the Dead rolls bore brilliantly colored scenes. Later, as writing shifted to alphabetic form, the important letters were illuminated.
Vienna dispatch reports a man named Fritz Mimmler tried to jump from a third floor window after his collar button failed. A chauffeur stopped the attempt. the button finally fell away, prompting Mimmler to end his life by what the piece terms slow suicide. The column argues daily irritations similarly harm us more than a single leap.
The Washington Star notes many American Indian languages lack the B sound, citing Aztec and many North American tongues. It cites Jamez of New Mexico with a perfect B and Pomo in California as possessing it, and mentions Bagil, a Pomo heroine whose name is pronounced Bahgeel, as an example of a B starting name.
The text states milk is a complete food containing casein and albumen nitrogen, fat, milk sugar, salts and water. It suggests milk could support human life indefinitely though no such long term experiment has been conducted.
A quirky excerpt describes a creature called the Galloway Gink living in Ireland’s peat bogs. It features hairy side growths, a coat brushed by muck, and a fragile temperament when distressed. The odd construction uses a chicken feather quill, a pecan body, toothpick neck, spaghetti tail, and cloves for ears and feet.
A father recalls a schoolyard tale of harsh discipline, noting the teacher struck his son with a two foot ruler, while the mother protests and the father suggests a broader lesson about education and punishment. The story grows with each telling.
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