Johnny Chuck Returns Home After Harsh Journey
Johnny Chuck decides to return to the Old Orchard home after a trek driven by hunger and danger. Sammy Jay advises starting at noon to avoid predators like Reddy Fox and Old Man Coyote, and Johnny reaches the entrance to his home where Polly Chuck greets him with a terse welcome.
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Chuck
Johnny
Polly Chuck
Johnny Chuck
Roddy Fox
Sammy Jay
Sammy
Reddy
Mrs. Fox
Old Man Coyote
Bowser
Polly
Reddy Fox
Green Forest
Vegetable oils and sugar dressing recipe tips
The article discusses using vegetable oils as cheaper olive oil substitutes in dressings. It provides a French dressing recipe with oil vinegar salt and pepper, and a pepper juice sugar mix with sugar vinegar and pepper to a hard boil then resting.
About That Boy Annie That Boy
A reflective monologue on a mother watching her son grow. The speaker compares his maturation to her own youth and past mistakes, noting how he begins to resemble his father and adopt his former tricks. The tone is cautious and moralizing about parental memories.
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Annie
Douglas Malloch
WNU
Home Canning and Cookery Fragments From 1933
Recipes include boiling jelly with pectin and paraffin sealing, a mayonnaise method with vinegar oil and syrup, an avocado omelet with toasted crumbs, and turnips mashed with Irish potatoes for use as a salad base. Provided by Western Newspaper Union in 1933.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Newspaper Union
Golf Practice Lessons From Jones and Smith
A golf writer compares Bobby Jones and MacDonald Smith on practice methods. Jones varies distances and uses different clubs to keep work sessions engaging while targeting the flag. Smith drills shots he already handles well to build good habits, cautioning that golfing form can shift with repeated experimentation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bobby Jones
Jones
MacDonald Smith
Smith
Syndice
Cat's Tail Rises Like Ruler When Petted
A cat arches its back and raises its tail in a stiff, ruler like pose when stroked along the back. The response signals pleasure and alertness as the motion continues to a natural pause.
Boners and humorous exam tidbits from old school texts
A collection of classroom jokes and humorous misstatements from exams and essays. It includes playful definitions and garbled historical references such as Gandhi's army sharing meals, steam as heat crazed water, Romans dining on one elbow, and Joan of Arc burned to a steak, framed as light amusement from 1933 Bell Syndicate WNU Service.
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Joan of Arc
Bell Syndicate
WNU
New Sports Costume From Kargers in New York
An individually designed sweater costume from Kargers in New York features a diagonally woven brown and homespun skirt with a tri angular center design, a lacy gold blouse with a diagonal scarf, tiny puffed sleeves, and a brown leather bow on the belt to accent individuality.
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Kargers
New York
Mystery of the Russian General Kidnapping Continues
Paris reports three years after General Koutsepoff vanished amid Bolshevik intrigue. Marie Elianoff-Graff, once linked to the case, also disappears in Switzerland as investigators chase the Cheka led conspiracy across Milan Brussels and Paris.
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Paris
Koutsepoff
Marie Elianoff-Graff
Switzerland
Affaire Koutieport
Koutieport
France
Foch
Moscow
Barmine
Milan
Italy
Continent
Death beckons 15 more X ray heroes
London report notes fifteen X ray pioneers across Great Britain dying from incurable radiation injuries. Fourteen earlier workers have died. many were radiologists and wartime technicians who faced exposure treating injured soldiers. The sufferers live quietly in cottages or suburbs, unseen by the world until death.
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London
Great Britain
Shires
Manchester
Edinburgh
Newcastle
Bandaged Hand Used by Man to Gyp Merchant
A confidence man in Pueblo pretended a hand injury to cash a bogus check for 12.50 at a local shoe company. The check bore a non existent bank name Citizens' State Bank of Denver and a signature from a nonexistent casualty company. The bandaged hand fooled the storekeeper who cashed the draft.
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Pueblo
Colo
Citizens’ State Bank” of
Denver
Watch Saves His Life by Stopping Thug's Bullet
A Chicago man Fred Falk credited his life to a watch received fifteen years ago. At 7619 Chappel Avenue he learned burglars were in his brother's bakery on 2006 East Seventy first street. Falk confronted them. a burglar fired, the watch absorbed the bullet and protected him with only a slight bruise.
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Chicago
Fred Falk
Falk
Chappel Avenue
East Seventyfirst
Palk
Squirrel Attacks Man on Street in Mount Vernon
A man is treated for a leg wound after a gray squirrel attacked while he walked. Earlier a woman was bitten by the same animal. Mount Vernon hosts many gray squirrels with rare attack reports. The article notes possible rabies as a cause before describing the animal’s killing.
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Mount Vernon
Ralph Spartman
Flattering Pancho Villa Saved Man From Death
El Paso writer George Millar relates how Villa freed him after ten days of flattery during captivity in 1920. Millar, a mining engineer, deflected execution by recounting Napoleons and Caesars to portray Villa as a grand leader.
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el Paso
Texas
George Millar
Francisco
Pancho) Villa
Mexico
Scheherazade
Millar
Villa
Napoleon
Caesar
Hannibal
Peter the Great
Alexander
Great Khan
Fireman Risks Life to Save Woman from Mud
New York Mrs Louise Trisci seventy sank in mud on Hook Creek flats near Jamaica Inwood Fireman Leon ard Reuss heard her screams and crawled into the bog using a ladder and plank He flung a plank over a bog hole and crossed to rescue the fainting woman dragging her to firm land before the plank and ladder sank under him.
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New York
Louise Trisci
Hook Creek
Jamaica
Inwood
Leonard Reuss
Reuss
Fight Over Ownership of Chicken Ends in Courtroom
In Birmingham a dispute over a hen's ownership between Mrs. Mary L. Jones and Mrs. Daisy Morris escalated to violence. The chicken was killed during the fight. Morris was arrested but acquitted on an assault charge.
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Birmingham
Ala
Mary L. Jones
Daisy Morris
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Amazon
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Farley
Roosevelt
Representative Fish
By Douglas Malloch
Koutlepoff
Europe
Marie Rilanoff-Graff
Brussels
Roizemann
Death
England
Thug
Man
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