Skunk Facts and Fables from a Farmyard Tale
This verse presents a view of skunks as pests that damage nests and eat eggs yet also notes beneficial roles in the farm by feeding on beetles bugs and rats and even mice. It describes features such as a white dorsal stripe and a nocturnal perfume defense. It warns readers not to handle or approach skunks due to their strong scent.
Lost Gowanus House in Brooklyn History Recovered
A long lost Gowanus house once used as a Continental Army block house near Fifth Avenue Brooklyn is unearthed by unemployed city workers after a 28 year digging hunt. The piece recounts Washington’s headquarters use and the 1776 chase by Lord Howe, with civic groups likely to aid in a future park department decision.
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Barter Exchange Sells Blood for Hospital Use in Fort Worth
Blood sale emerges as a new service from a Fort Worth barter exchange. City County Hospital requests a transfusion and Henry Baker, an unemployed man, is assigned the task to provide the blood.
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Henry Baker
Breakfast: the wise choice for balanced mornings
Edith M. Barber argues against skipping breakfast, urging a three meal plan. She cites mental steadiness, better morning efficiency, and easier fruit and milk intake, recommending ready to eat cereals, whole grains, and bran for bulk and digestion with occasional eggs.
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Edith M. Barber
Breakfast dishes and egg based recipes featured
A discussion extols breakfast as a savory meal and offers recipes for morning dishes. It highlights eggs as a low calorie yet mineral rich option and includes a recipe for Scrambled Eggs With Corn Flakes with butter milk salt pepper and corn flakes.
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How It Started By Jean Newton
A concise historical note on how language evolves with human progress, using shrapnel as a case study. The piece links word origins to invention by General Shrapnel and notes its early wartime significance. It includes additional vintage kitchen recipes for creamed ham with anchovy and tomato sauce, reflecting period culinary guidance.
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My Neighbor or Says Jelly and Cleaning Tips
A 1933 Associated Newspapers feature offers home hacks for quick jelly setting by dissolving in hot water, dissolving laundry marks with carbolic acid, removing heat marks with wood alcohol, and twisting crullers by rolling dough and slashing before twisting for a firm shape.
Remittance and Divorce Mention in Humorous Exchange
A brief dialogue notes Maude is divorced and hints at alimony payments of two hundred dollars a month. The line mocks haste in marriage and suggests regular support as part of the settlement.
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Maude
Mayor Pays Salaries in Taunton Pocket Reserve
Taunton Massachusetts mayor Andrew J. McGraw paid 55 street department employees from his own funds after the city could not cover their salaries, covering a critical payroll shortfall.
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Taunton
Mass
Andrew J. McGraw
Proper Baking Techniques For Consistent Cakes And Pastries
Practical guide on following directions and using correct ingredients for reliable baked goods. Notes include measuring baking soda level, sifting flour before measuring, choosing cake or pastry flour for tender crumbs, and using mild acids to simulate soured milk with substitutions for dairy.
Strange Cable Message From Texas Flyer Sparks Russian Confusion
A cablegram to American distance flyer James Mattern reads only Attaboy Jim my with signature San Angelo. Soviet telegraph officials cannot locate Attaboy in the dictionary and mistake San Angelo for the flyer’s Texas hometown, forwarding the message to Jimmy.
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San Angelo
Texas
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