Peter Rabbit suspects Jerry Muskrat’s house is a bluff
In a bedtime tale Peter Rabbit doubts Jerry Muskrat is building a water house. Grandfather Frog argues the visible part is the easy end and urges Peter to learn diving to see what lies beneath. Peter wishes to dive but stays above, while Jerry continues his underground work.
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Peter Rabbit
Jerry Muskrat
Peter
Jerry
Grandfather Frog
T. W. Burgess
WNT Service
Pimentos Add Zest To Dull Dishes In Colorful Ways
The piece extols the Spanish pepper pimento for flavor and color in meals. It describes sizes from small bottles to seven ounce cans and gives two recipes Pimento Stuffed and Pimento Canapes with steps for filling stuffing ingredients and baking or cooking until brown.
McClure Syndicate Feature Dd You Know
Feature from McClure Newspaper Syndicate outlining daily trivia notes from the WNU Service. Includes quick curios and concise observations for readers.
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McClure Newspaper Syndicate
WNU
The Baby's Rule
A poem by Douglas Malloch from 1933 imagines a baby’s pure judgment. It contrasts adult divisions by wealth birth and race with a baby’s simple measure of kindness, suggesting love and goodness are what truly matter to infants.
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Douglas Malloch
WNU
Flexible Shafts and Ouimet Golf Clubs
Francis Ouimet tests wooden clubs with shafts bent under the grip to create a flexible shaft. The design favors a slow swing, higher whip, and smoother, more accurate shots, reducing the urge to smash the ball.
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Francis Ouimet
Bell Syndicate
WNU
Kroners Boners Excerpted Errors From Exam Papers
A collection of humorous tidbits from teachers notes and exams. The snippets include odd definitions and misunderstandings, such as the idea that an octogenarian is an animal with eight young at birth and that exports are things found on land.
Life's Plan Not Based on Speed
An American writer argues progress comes from steady, small improvements rather than frantic haste. The piece contrasts embracing slow, purposeful effort with chasing impossible quick gains, noting that a single mile of improvement may outvalue a rush toward nine thousand miles per minute. Bell Syndicate 1933.
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Bell Syndicate
WNU
Sinking Britain Tied to Tide Movements in Blue Paper
A Montreal Herald report summarizes a government Blue Paper showing England slowly sinks into the sea. Felixstowe suffers two inches in fifteen years while the Bank of England sits six inches lower than in 1895. St Paul’s drops three inches. Seismograph data link land movement to tides and tunnels beneath the Thames deform at high tide.
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England
Felixstowe
Bank of England
St. Paul’s Cathedral
County Hall
Westminster
Waterloo Bridge
Thames
Montreal Herald
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Egional Forester
R. H. Rutledge
Center
G. Ben Ross
Idaho
Charles L. Sampson
Boise District
Citizens’ Conservation Corps
Woodsman
Chicago
By Thornton W. Burgess
Girugago
Olivia
Bell@yndicate
Oy Western Newspaper Union
By Douglas Malloch
Kroners
Australia
Edward
Marshal Foch
Marshal Haig
Marshal Field
WNU Service
Papa
Bank of America
Los Angeles
Canada
Detroit
Ambassador
Norton-Palmer Hotel
Preston . Norton
Windsor
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