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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1930
Page
9
An essay from the McClure Syndicate praises picnicking as a national pastime aided by cars. It links outdoor meals to relaxation, novelty, and social cheer, noting the blend of primitive pleasure and modern comforts, plus the convenience of driving to secluded grounds for wholesome meals.
A 1930 poem excerpt by Douglas Malloch celebrates kindness shaping work and community. It contrasts old rivalries with shared labor, noting increased cooperation, gentler speech, and a lighter burden as wealth grows. The speaker calls labor fueled by kindness a source of brighter life.
The piece discusses virtue as a quality valued by people and examined through the lens of personal appropriation. It reflects on how admiration for virtue can influence behavior and self-perception in everyday life.
A 1930 Western Newspaper Union piece offers varied chicken sandwich recipes. It lists methods for chicken and celery, pecan, almond, and bacon variations, plus mixtures with capers, greens, ham, and pickles, all spread on buttered or fresh bread with mayo or cream.
The tale credits a goat with saving Guatemala's export dairy by domesticating wild goats amid a ban on malted milks in Yucatan. It humorously describes a purple cow field, peanut-headed goats butt the cows, field hands harvest peanut butter, and peanuts and cloves making up body parts in a whimsical Metropolitan Newspaper Service spoof.
A folklore belief says placing a ladybug on the hand and asking what reward awaits determines fate. If the bug flies upward, the omen points to heaven. if it flies downward, the sign is unclear or negative.
A historical note lists nations within Rome's boundaries in the present day including Great Britain, Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, Italy, Austria, Albania, Switzerland, Egypt and the Balkan states.
A tall house wanders through a city waking residents and scattering objects, trampling a market, toys and people. A quiet boy tickles the house’s feet until it collapses in laughter, then returns home. An Italian poem fragment ends with a cheeky note on appetite.
An advertisement extols Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a safe laxative for all ages, highlighting lab supervision, plant ingredients, and the claim it is the world’s largest selling laxative. Also promotes a marriage endowment plan from Capitol Matrimonial Alliance Club in Austin Texas.
Salesmen visiting established hardware and department store trade should find it advantageous to carry our line direct from the factory. Rolls Royal Co., Valparaiso, Indiana.
A Shanghai youth wrote that the modern Chinese girl must embody ancient virtues and modern ideals. She must be smart yet not extravagant sociable yet not boisterous political understanding without practice and recognize a man’s rights without insisting on her own. He says he cannot find her.
A conversation quotes Senator Sorgum musing on a future statue in his honor and his family preferring absence of such public art. He notes art critics’ agitation adding strain beyond political fault-finding as public life draws closer to memorial displays.
Major General J. I. Clinkscales, commander of Y Forests Cavalry and a leader of Confederate Veterans in Texas, credits Nature's Remedy NR Tablets for his health. He explains that disobeying nature causes trouble and that the 25 cent box helps when stomach souring, bowels tight, or indigestion occurs. He notes millions use NR Tablets daily.
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