Farmer Brown's Boy Digging a Compost Pit
In midsummer Farmer Brown's Boy digs a deep six foot compost pit in an unused sandy garden corner to rot leaves sods and barnyard matter for next spring's crop. Sammy Jay suspects a trap but waits to learn the purpose while the boy worries about keeping animals safe.
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Farmer Brown
Brown
Green Meadows
Green Forest
Sammy Jay
Sammy
T. W. Burgess
WNU Service
Age's Place by Douglas Malloch
Poem reflects the tension between aging and youth while seeking relevance. The speaker laments aging's fading role yet asserts enduring experience and vitality inside, amid a world dominated by youth and rapid change.
Renovating a Shabby Umbrella with Ammonia Wash
A simple home remedy instructs brushing the umbrella with a warm water and ammonia solution to restore its condition. The guidance emphasizes thorough cleaning to revive fabric and frame.
Tasettes and Veal Heart Dishes For Everyday Cash Cooking
Daily problem for housewives is choosing seasonal dishes that are economical. Tasettes use apples with brown sugar flour butter eggs milk and raisins steamed in cups with custard. Veal Heart recipe serves sliced calf heart fried with bacon fat onions served with stock pimiento green pepper bay leaf and tart jelly after slow simmering.
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Western Newspaper Union
Secret to halting over swing in iron shots found
In 1914 Francis Ouimet learned a key grip from Hilton in England that stopped an over swing with irons. By placing the right thumb atop the shaft Ouimet could limit and control the swing for crisp contact, a technique readers can try to cure a similar fault.
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Francis Ouimet
England
Hilton
Ouimet
Bell Syndicate
Defray in College Life At 1933 Bell Syndicate Poem
A compact line from a 1933 Bell Syndicate WNU Service piece ponders the meaning of defray and what a man does for a son in college, reflecting era concerns about finance and duty.
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Bell Syndicate
WNU
Knight Time
Boners Soldier Turns Traitor in Civil War Tale
Arnold Bennett, a Union soldier, is described as betraying the Union, sustaining injuries in battle, and begging for permission to wear his Union suit again, highlighting a chaotic wartime moment.
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Arnold Bennett
Boners and Wordplay From Jumbled Examinations
Humorous tidbits arise from exam papers and essays with playful definitions and puns. The excerpt notes playful misuses of terms such as hydrophobia and apostrophe and includes riddling lines about Burns and posthumous birth.
Debutante Fashion Show Highlights Advanced Spring Styles
The National Retail Dry Goods Association convention in New York showcased debutante fashion featuring puffed sleeves and wide revers on a taffeta blouse in sharp blue paired with a neutral gray suit.
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National Retail Dry Goods Association
New York
Governor Winthrop Desk Name From Printing Error
The New York Sun notes a Boston furniture firm Charak named their slant-top desk Governor Hancock desk as a trade name but a printer mislabelled it Governor Winthrop, and the misnaming persisted. The mix up shows how a printing error can stamp a product with a lasting identity.
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Governor Winthrop
New York Sun
Charak Furniture Company
Boston
Governor Hancock
Youth Scribbles His Sensations in Dying by Gas
In Camden, Isaac W. Eason Jr., 26, left two whisky bottles beside him as he turned on four gas outlets and a radio, writing notes on dying before police found him. he warned his father and brother, spoke of the pangs of death, and asked to have his body cremated after his suicide.
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Camden
N. J
Isaac W. Eason, Jr
Eason
Randolph- Macon College
Petersburg
Isaac W. Eason
United States
Washington
Wilson
James Mercer Davis
Ocean County
Young Eason
Robert
Richmond
Mother
Love
Dog Survives Fire in Car Trunk
German police dog belonging to Warren Sherman of Summer Street escaped unharmed after his owner’s car caught fire. Sherman started the motor, the vehicle backfired, flames erupted, and firemen found the dog lying on the rear seat as the car burned beyond repair.
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Weymouth
Warren Sherman
Summer Street
Sherman
Mr. Sherman
Tussle With Thief Nets $7 for Intended Victim
Milwaukee resident Charles SneidDieger fought with a burglar who entered his home and stole $15 from a dresser. In the struggle the intruder fled, leaving $22 behind for SneidDieger to net a $7 gain.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Charles Snieddieger
Sneiddieger
Snieddieger
Reverend Grubb Fends Off Bandits During Robbery
In Altoona Pennsylvania the Rev Vernon D Grubb of St Pauls Reformed Church repelled two bandits who accosted him at night. One robber was armed but Grubb knocked both to the ground and escaped in a car.
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Altoona
Vernon D. Grubb
St. Paul's Reformed Church
Reverend Grubb
Immense Mettur Dam Project in British India Progress
The Mettur dam in South India, largest in the British empire, aims for completion by September 1934. It will contain 54 million cubic feet of masonry, cost about 3.5 million dollars for cement, feature a 95 foot waterfall across 630 feet, and irrigate a million acres to boost fertility. Work advances at the head works and distribution network.
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Mettur
South India
Doctors Promote Creosote Based Cough Medicine
Article touts Creomulsion as a powerful remedy for lingering coughs colds and bronchitis. It claims creosote and six other ingredients rapidly stop persistent respiratory illness and offers a money back guarantee if relief is not achieved.
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