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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1930
Page
7
A talking dog visits a town and inspires local hounds to learn speech. The baker tests them with letters and aims for a jam tart prize for the first to spell a word. The dogs rush to form CAT but realize a cat does not exist and feel ashamed.
A observed toy craft story describes making fuzzy-wuzzy animal figures from pipe cleaners with scissors and a paint box. A comic episode follows dogs failing to talk like people, visiting a butcher and a cheese monger who promise rewards for speech, ending with the dogs fleeing in fright led by a strange dog. The piece is credited to Mary Laurence Turnbull Tufts.
The Poppled Koink HE Koink, a speckled groundhog, is a ham-growing creature valued for rooting out gophers. It feeds on parsley and duck soup, with wild specimens thinner due to meal limits. After foraging, one finds the creature resembling a paper-shell pecan with golden speckles, though they are rare.
A parent reflects on the rift between generations as youth reject older standards. The piece urges parents to earn their children's confidence rather than insist on being right, arguing doubt keeps adults young and better protects youths in times of danger.
Warm weather recipes from Nellie Maxwell offer several punchy beverages for hosts. Recipes include Chocolate Frappe with chocolate and sugar chilled to thick cream, grape juice and ginger ale mix, Loganberry Milk Punch with evaporated milk, and Orange Nog with milk and orange juice. Also featured are Fruit Punch with mixed fruit and citrus juice, Honey Milk Shake with eggs and milk, and a cheese roll garnish with olives and pimientos.
An unusual description portrays a creature assembled from edible parts like a bent pin tail, tusks and legs as cloves, ears and feet as split peanuts, and a back spine of assorted popcorns, credited to Metropolitan Newspaper Service.
The piece notes that modern public libraries in the United States emerged around 1850 with real growth from 1876. It cites Salisbury Connecticut as the earliest tax supported town library in 1808 and Peterborough New Hampshire as the oldest still existing public library from 1833. It ends with a blunt quote about the dumb having one great advantage from the Buffalo Evening News.
A Flapper Fannie quip from the Bell Syndicate praises a tender-hearted boyfriend who would not strike an attitude, reflecting social banter of the era.
McClure Newspaper Syndicate presents a study on the recoil against prohibitions. The piece argues that people resist don’ts because they challenge personal impulses and past actions, triggering automatic defense and action in favor of the forbidden act.
A poem explains how money grows when saved. It contrasts spending on daily needs with saving two dollars when one will do, suggesting adding the extra to savings to earn more later. It emphasizes that money laid away compounds.
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