Why People Are Curious by M. K. Thomson PhD
An essay on curiosity as a fundamental instinct and emotion guiding action. It explains curiosity fuels science, knowledge, gossip, and fear balance, noting curiosity prevents both recklessness and timidity and shapes romance and discovery.
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Money Matters and Parenting Character
Discussion argues for balanced money talk with children. Avoiding money entirely harms character as money decisions shape daily life and values. Emphasizes that stinginess and material focus can both distort character, urging measured financial awareness in upbringing.
The Dollar Sign and Graceful Living
By JEAN NEWTON, the piece discusses money as a source of ugliness and dishonesty when underthought, and argues true refinement comes from forethought about money. It claims both modest and wealthy can live gracefully without debt when money is considered in time and perspective.
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Bell Syndicate
The Busy Maid by Douglas Malloch
A 1930 poem extols the housewife as the most honorable of employments. It contrasts domestic duties with wider female pursuits, praising the maid who serves at home while keeping confidences and remaining unseen and intimate to those she serves.
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Douglas Malloch
Eat Vegetables Twice a Day
Article emphasizes eating vegetables twice daily with many nutrients and minerals listed. It urges children to grow their own produce, notes vegetables aid digestion and provide phosphorus calcium magnesium iron and vitamins, and shares a Tomato Delight recipe with tomatoes cabbage onion pepper celery salt paprika and mayonnaise served on lettuce.
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Western Newspaper Union
Budapest Two Cities Across Danube Link by Six Bridges
Budapest covers 80 square miles with two old towns, Buda on the right bank and Pest on the left. Six bridges connect the banks and unite the old world calm of Buda with Pest’s bustling, new world energy. The capital is regarded as one of Europe's most beautiful cities.
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Great Roaring Powk Creature From Nutty History
A playful museum-narrative describes the powk creature feeding on scrap iron near locomotive works. The beast has a paper shell body, a filbert head, navy bean eyes, corn wings, and peanut feet. Its name derives from the sound of a boiler when a powk is struck.
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Metropolitan Newspaper Service
Humble and Proud Quote Attributed to Velimirovic
A brief excerpt presents Nicholai Velimirovic urging humility and confidence with a philosophical contrast between stars and people. The text emphasizes equality of essence across humble beings and lofty aspirations.
Children’s Corner Verse Puzzle With Four Letter Objects
A two line verse in a circle with missing letters and six four letter objects at the center. Readers must write the object names and use their letters to complete the circle text ensuring no letters remain unused. Harvey Peake signs the puzzle.
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The Prince Who Would Not Smile A Folk Tale
A spoiled Prince gains happiness from a poor lad who lives by helping others. The kingdom learns joy when the Prince joins the lad, sharing acts of kindness, helping a crutchbound boy, a coatless child, and a busy mother. The Prince smiles at last.
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Making Daffodils and Hindu Beliefs in India 1930
Instructions describe making daffodil crafts with yellow and tissue papers, using spools to form petals and green cardboard stems. The article then discusses Hinduism as practiced in India with emphasis on tolerance, belief in karma and transmigration, moksha, and the Hindu view of life as suffering and a desire to escape it.
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India
Western Newspaper Union
The Hindu and Mohammedan Social Gap in India
The article argues that over seventy million Hindus and Muslims form a deep social rift in India. It contrasts caste versus equality, water at stations, cow worship, temple idols, language, and architecture as reflections of Hindu and Muslim worldviews. It stresses inherent incompatibilities in social systems and belief.
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