Mocking Bird Tricks Peter Rabbit with Voices
In a woodland tale Peter meets a sober stranger who turns out to be Mocker the Mockingbird. He imitates Glory the Cardinal and other birds in a playful concert, fooling Peter and Mrs Goldy as they laugh at the bird’s clever voice skills. Peter learns voices can mislead as much as looks.
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Peter Rabbit
Glory
Cardinal
Peter
Old Orchard
Ance
Mocker
Mockingbird
South
The Perfect Fool Q A Column by Ed Wynn
A short humor Q A feature answers reader queries on Florida nerves price hikes a hotel owner and a sponge versus non sponge race death by own action and a teen’s grocery store job question about pounds and ounces.
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ED Wynn
Roads built by Americans and a riddle about De tour
A reader asks why a grocer won’t hire him and a tip suggests saying 14 ounces make a pound. A respondent explains “Roosevelt boulevard and Lincoln highway” were roads built by Americans, and in a road quip a Frenchman is blamed. the name given is De tour.
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D. Liveryboye
Mr. Wynn
Roosevelt Boulevard
Lincoln Highway
The Vine Finds a Trellis for Heavenly Growth
A poet reflects on a vine failing to climb a bare shack wall until a trellis brings it upward. The piece links the image to divine guidance and the loftiness of God’s work to help us rise above, framed as a personal meditation.
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Wnuu
Tea table delights and simple peanut muffins
A Western Newspaper Union recipe style article advises affordable tea table styling with orange peel jasmine flavoring, decorative open sandwiches, light bread rounds, mayonnaise and cheese piping, and fruit and candy to elevate aesthetics. It ends with a peanut muffin recipe using flour, baking powder, sugar, peanut butter, milk and butter.
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Western Newspaper Union
How to Set a Dinner Table for Formal Entertaining
A guide lists essential items for a proper table setting including a foundation such as a tablecloth or mats. It covers centerpieces, place plates, flatware for courses, candlesticks, serving dishes, appropriate glassware, salt and pepper at every two places, and a napkin at each setting with notes on bread and butter plates and the use of place cards depending on the occasion. It also notes optional fancy cards and common accompaniments like salted nuts olives radishes and celery vary by table type.
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Mra
Emily Post etiquette guidance for teen social rules
A collection of Q and A on teen conduct from Emily Post. Topics include visiting after dining with strangers, returning invitations, paying expenses for out of town guests, introducing a father's wife to strangers, and seating norms for mixed gender groups. Practical, period tone guidance from WNU Service.
Taller Earth Center Affects Perceived Mountain Heights
German calculations cited by Literary Digest place Mt Chimborazo in the Andes as the globe’s farthest point from Earth’s center, with Everest ranking lower. The list also includes Huascaran, Cotopaxi, Kilimanjaro, and Kenya, noting the equatorial bulge shifts heights.
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Mt. Everest
Mt. Chimborazo
Andes
Literary Digest
Chimborazo
Everest
Huascaran
Peru
Cotopaxi
Ecuador
Kenya
East Africa
Kilimanjaro
Africa
Word Urge Resurges as Noun in Modern Language
A prose note traces the noun urge as it reemerges in current usage after a century of restricted use. Literary Digest cites Whitman as rekindling the form with his 1884 Leaves of Grass and suggests renewed standing in contemporary diction.
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Literary Digest
Walt Whitman
Ewill
Unknown Genius Gave American Buggy to World
Smithsonian historian Carl W. Mitman notes the first light wagon with springs appeared around 1820, leading to the spring wagon and the buggy. By 1840 the one hoss shay and gig appeared, and railroads later threatened the buggy’s dominance before the automobile largely ended the trade.
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Carl W. Mitman
Smithsonian Institution
National Capital
Pathfinder Magazine
Little Girl Healed After Psoriasis With Cuticura
Mrs Marie Johnson of Omaha recounts her three month battle with psoriasis on her daughter's face. She used Cuticura Soap and Ointment as directed and reports relief and healing. The ad notes prices 25 and 50 cents and offers free samples from Cuticura Laboratories Dept R Malden MA.
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Marie
Johnson
Ames Ave
Omaha
Neb
Cuti
Cura Laboratories
Dept. R
Malden
Mass
Adv
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