Hints on Planning the Meals by Nellie Maxwell
Medical and household guidance on planning balanced meals emphasizing thrift and simple ingredients. Advice covers meat with vegetables, bread and cornmeal dishes, breakfast cereals, and the value of home made bread. warns against overreliance on meat and notes mono dieting. Includes general observations on individual dietary needs and food quality.
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Nellie Maxwell
Western Newspaper Union
The Almighty Dollar Coined by Washington Irving
The phrase The Almighty Dollar, widely associated with hard business spirit, was actually coined by Washington Irving. He introduced it in his 1837 book The Creole Village, reframing money as a deified force in a gentle literary style.
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Washington Irving
Beautiful Wales as British Tyrol
Wales is praised for mountain scenery likened to the Tyrol. Snowdon, the highest peak at 3600 feet, is noted for bold, graceful contours and a summit view unrivaled in Britain.
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Tyrol
Snowdon
Britain
Children’s Corner Word Spelling Game Instructions
A playful classroom activity explains a game using a box or basket, slips of paper with words, and pencils. Players draw a word and spell as many shorter words as possible within a time limit, guided by a captain who shouts GO.
Weather Man Surrenders in Umbrella Folly
A weather man, urged by villagers to grant endless sun rain and snow, finally rebels and leaves with magical umbrellas. Children panic as the town faces an unknown forecast and parents rush to see the missing figure. The tale spotlights human fickleness and desire for perfect weather.
The Weather Man and the Magic Umbrellas
A village tale describes a Weather Man who tends two magic umbrellas marked SUNSHINE and RAIN. When tired, he wanders away with the umbrellas while villagers plead for him to return, and children sing that they will be content with any weather.
A New Cross-Word Puzzle and Weather Tale
A light cross word prompts clues for pets vessels trees birds and domestic animals. The weather man smiles as umbrellas are returned to the tower with a sunny demonstration, and villagers express relief and a vow not to complain again.
Prince Abdul Kadir The Ex-Sultan’s Son Goes To Work
The piece recounts Prince Abdul Kadir once worth fifty million dollars who, after Turkey became a republic and he was expelled with little money, failed in love and wealth. He sought rich American wives but found scant fortune, and now applies to Hungary’s labor ministry to join a gypsy orchestra as a violinist.
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Abdul Kadir
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The
Bell Syndicate, Inc
The Inquisitive Snoop Through Time and Taste
A whimsical creature described as a curious being living in coffee roasters for aroma, seeking sewing circles for crumbs of talk. It is aged, with a worn nose, longer ears, and decayed frame by five years. Once a water bird with flat feet, now legs but no feet. Its body is a peanut and head a filbert, with bean ears and toothpick legs.
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Metropolitan
When the Bugs Buzz Around and Envy Stirs the Mind
Riff on temptation and envy where crowds chase danger and story swallows, with a Chinatown sage’s line about envy driving a boy to stone the bird and mute the song. The piece contrasts human folly with the lure of trouble and silent complicity.
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Hi Ho
Chinatown
Washington Star
Eagle Causes Blackout In Savoie Valley Villages
An eagle flew into overhead power lines cutting electricity for three villages near Lyons France. Workmen spent the night locating the fault and found the bird electrocuted just outside Longefroy near Tessens and Mascot, leaving the area without power.
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Savoie
Lyons
France
Longefroy
Tessens
Mascot
Weems the First Itinerant Book Agent of America
Parson Mason Locke Weems known as the first itinerant book agent in America. He carried a Life of Washington and morality tracts, touring houses across the young nation to distribute literature and moral guidance.
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George Washington
America
Weems
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