Reddy Fox Courtship Plans With Jerry Muskrat
In a moonlit scene at Smiling Pool Reddy Fox taunts Jerry Muskrat as they plot a dry land house. Jerry touts a tunnel entrance while Reddy feigns admiration and cautiously questions future help. The pair debate design details and friendship shifts amid a wry woodland bravado.
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What He Is Not What He Has A Poem Reflection
A Douglas Malloch poem contends that judgment comes from inner character rather than wealth or appearance. It contrasts riches with virtue, warning that deeds shape the soul more than money, clothes, or status.
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Three Good Things for Sunday Supper Dishes
A short menu of three recipes from the Western Newspaper Union offers Supper Dish a cheese toast bake with eggs and spices, Date Puff a walnut and date dessert with whipped cream, and a veal or beef meat stew finished with gravy and sour cream biscuits.
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Western Newspaper Union
Golf swing notes from 1933 Bell Syndicate brief
A technical note describes Civet Cat for Sports turning right to open the blade and drive the ball from the outside on the downstroke. It explains spin to stop quickly and how to play a pitch and run shot with closed club face from the right foot.
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Bell Syndicate
WIN Service
Pop gunpowder joke from 1933 Bell Syndicate WNU
A clipped quip from 1933 by the Bell Syndicate WNU Service asks what gunpowder is and jokes that it is a Chinese invention to keep the Western hemisphere busy.
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Betsy
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WNU
Western Hemisphere
Short Game Choke Down Pitch From 50 to 80 Yards
The piece explains a short pitch shot near greenside traps requiring backspin control. Stewart Maiden advocates ball opposite left foot and restrained hip turn to keep the club from closing inside the line. Toe of the club is used to help the ball check.
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Stewart Maiden
On the Funny Side WHY DAD'S NOSE IS RED
A humorous item notes two domestic workers discuss their employers. One says the husband is cross, and she answers she gets even by starching his handkerchiefs. The gag ends with a brief exchange about love and cave men.
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Boston Transcript
Preparedness Shoe Shop Opens for Lady Customers
A shoemaker tells his assistant to ready to stretch shoes as two women enter the shop. The proprietor chooses to wait on them himself, signaling prompt service.
Boners: Humor Fragments From Exams And Essays
A collection of humorous tidbits labeled boners from teacher exams and essays explains quick notions. It playfully notes checks and balances in government and light definitions like a nomad sleeping anywhere. The tone is quippy and schools it uses to entertain readers.
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Royal Air Force
Air Force
Neighbor plots sly saxophone sale plan
A Portland Express clipping recounts a quirky exchange where a man tries to sell his saxophone by learning to play and advertising it at the same time, claiming a neighbor’s hatred as motivation. The brief item captures a humorous, candid moment in local life.
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Portland Express
Powerful Stuff Run-Ins on a Mountain Tour Tale
The Cincinnati Enquirer reports a rugged tour incident where a traveler ran out of gas crossing a mountain. A moonshiner offered substitute fuel but the vehicle consumed the moonshine, damaging the gas tank within three miles.
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Cincinnati Enquirer
Imitation Influence at the Capitol Questioned
A lady asks about lobbyists around the United States Capitol. Senator Sorghum dismisses the query and describes lobbyists as enterprising individuals who earn large sums by fooling their employers.
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United States Capitol
Senator Sorghum
Fisherman Offers Photo Bet Over Big Catch
A playful exchange in a local scene features a boy offering to sell a photo with a large string of fish for 50 cents. Evans declines the sale and suggests posing for a picture instead.
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Evans
Hard Cash Goggles and Old Plankhunter Voice
A clipped exchange notes a metallic ring in a character’s speech and the other remarks all he talks of is dollars. The dialogue underscores the theme of balancing appearances with the burden of expenses.
Bayer Aspirin Quick Relief Claim Promoted
An advertisement touts Bayer Aspirin tablets as providing fast pain relief for headaches rheumatism neuritis and neuralgia citing a scientific discovery that tablets disintegrate in two seconds after moisture contact The copy emphasizes choosing Genuine Bayer Aspirin and uses the brand name Bayer Aspirin for credibility.
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