Jerry Muskrat Plans New House Near Smiling Pool
Jerry Muskrat tells Peter Rabbit he will build a better winter home near the Smiling Pool after the flood swept away his old house. Peter notes the risk, and Jerry vows to locate a safer site, using careful scouting over the pool’s edge while planning for next winter.
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Jerry Muskrat
Peter Rabbit
Smiling Pool
Peter
Jerry
Laughing Brook
T. W. Burgess
WNN Service
Military ensign history linked to Roman standards
The note traces the evolution of the military ensign from a square cloth on a spear to a cross-bar emblem. It links symbols such as the whip and lash to leadership authority and mentions the McClure Newspaper Syndicate WNU Service as the source.
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McClure Newspaper Syndicate
WNU Service
Watch Position O Ball In Chip Shot
Golf instruction notes common errors arise from ball address position. Proper stance and foot placement ease the chip shot, keeping the ball low and controllable. Bobby Jones demonstrates relaxed posture with feet close together to allow free arm swing.
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Bobby Jones
A Recipe for Living and Sweetening Life
A 1933 verse-poem urges readers to treat life like a cookbook, adding sympathy and comfort to brighten homes and hearts. It compares life to dough and batter, arguing that more than customs is needed, a constant supply of sweetening fine tunes daily living.
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Douglas Malloch
WNU
Fresh Carrot Salad Delights With Lemon Gelatin
A recipe hint describes a bright salad using tender carrots finely grated with onion and celery, stirred into a lemon gelatin for a refreshing, easy dish. It emphasizes variety in servings and tasteful combinations.
Training for Flying at Their Own Expense Many Royalists Beheaded
Training for flying at their own expense, royalists beheaded during the Reign of Terror. The French Revolution saw 2 500 royalists guillotined in 15 months. After Sedan in 1871 20 000 royalists executed in a single week.
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Sedan
Fragmented humor and oddities from old exams and history
A collage of quirky lines touches on humorous exam tidbits, farming woes in the West, safety in air with carbolic acid, Greek cabinet resignations, skeleton definitions, capital punishment debates in schools, Sirens myths, and notes on ragweed seeds in Ozark shelters.
Youth Confesses He Slew Mother for Cash in Flint
Balfe Macdonald a seventeen year old and companion William Terwilliger sixteen confessed to killing Grace Macdonald for money. They fled from Nashville after the murder in the Flint mansion where the mother a fifty four year old widow of a banker was found slain. The youths described their plan to run away and their flight to Louisville where they learned of the mother’s death.
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Flint, Mich
Balfe Macdonald
Balfe
William Terwilliger
Nashville
Tenn
Macdonald
Grace
Terwilliger
Bill
Tewhey
Louisville
Indians Claim Love Charms Influencing Marriage
In Wisconsin at Ashland in the Bad River reservation a group of Chippewa petitioned Judge Risjord for clemency for Dorothy Beauregard who pled guilty to deserting her 11 children. They alleged love charms by a local medicine man and widespread witchery, seeking mercy on her behalf.
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Squaw Ashland
Wis
Bad River Reservation
G. N. Risford
Dorothy Beauregard
Babidesh Cederroot
Risjord
Bailiffs Routed by Women in Toronto Eviction Clash
In Toronto's Ukranian community three eviction officers tried to remove Andrew Mishka and his ailing wife from 1 Cameron Street. They were met by four strong Ukrainian women who attacked them. One bailiff was thrown out front, another out back, and the third fled. A cardboard sign in the Mishka home window proclaims we will fight all eviction cases, signed Council of the Unemployed.
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Toronto
Ont
Andrew Mishka
Cameron Street
Unemployment Council
Mishka
Council of the
Robin Uses Extra Caboose During Nesting Pause
Benton Harbor Michigan report says a marathon robin nesting under a freight train caboose paused flight to guard two blue eggs. Conductor Roy Blodgett noticed the bird beneath the car and a crew added an extra caboose with the order to use it until the robin finishes.
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Benton Harbor
Mich
Roy Blodgett
Lightning burns watch in pocket near Pinetree Idaho
Carl Beebe escaped serious injury after lightning struck while he rode three horses near his home in Pinetree Idaho. He was dazed but fine except for facial burns and a watch burned through in his pocket. the center horse survived without harm.
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Pinetree
Idaho
Carl Beebe
Beebe
Colleen Moore’s Hollywood Rise From Tampa To Stardom
Colleen Moore recalls early life in Tampa and Detroit, a six month tryout with D W Griffith in California, and rising to stardom at Selig and other studios. She describes roles from The Bad Boy to Little Orphan Annie and first talking picture Smiling Irish Eyes, plus injuries and long filming stretches.
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Hollywood
Lillian
Dorothy Gish
Alma Rubens
Bessie Love
Mildred Harris
Carmel Myers
Mr. Griffith
Selig Studio
Lucky
Charles Ray
Irene
Twinkletoes
WNU
Esther Howard rise from stage to screen stardom outlined
Musical comedy star Esther Howard, described as a legitimate actor, made her picture debut alongside Marilyn Miller years ago. She has since appeared in The Woman Tamer Vice Squad Yellow Ticket Wicked and Ladies of the Big House establishing a notable screen career.
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Esther Howard
Marilyn Miller
Modest Raquel Torressy Shuns Fame in Public
Raquel Torressy, noted for modesty, often wears dark glasses on streets unlike her studio or home. She is seldom seen without them, maintaining privacy in public.
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Raquel Raquel Torressy
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Bobby
Bell Syndicate
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Ton
Bert Taylor Anderson
Los Angeles
Anderson
Rose Ida Anderson
Roners
Venizelos
Sang
Ozark Mountains
Australian Ballet
Hal C. Herman
Colleen Moore
Tampa, Fla
Cleve
Walter D. Howey
Chicago American
Essanay
Chicago
D. W. Griffith
Griffith
California
Detroit
Detroit Conservatory of Music
Mary Kelly
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