Counting Our Wealth
Poem excerpt from 1930 by Douglas Malloch celebrating family love as wealth. Mentions a couple with children and a supportive network, contrasting riches with health and companionship. Also notes large fish species like black jewfish and black sea bass.
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Douglas Malloch
Quick Lunch Ideas For Busy Mothers And Children
A 1930 Western Newspaper Union guide advises mothers on fast tasty lunches for children. It suggests bite sized treats like cream puffs, sardines on toast, olive wrapped bacon bites, fruit salads, and crostaches with cheese. Recipes include fish sauce, ginger orange marmalade sandwiches, poached eggs with caviar, and anchovy scrambled eggs for speedy meals.
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Western Newspaper Union
Superstitious Sue Advises Health Actions
A McClure Newspaper Syndicate column urges readers to perform quirky rituals such as trimming nails on Monday and cleaning medicine bottles to bring health, presented as superstition friendly guidance.
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McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Twain After Dinner Speech At Grant Banquet
Chicago recalls a Mark Twain anecdote from November 12, 1879, at Harverly’s theater. General Grant, honored after his world tour, urged to hear Twain who joked he cannot improvise a good speech without hours to prepare.
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Chicago
Mark Twain
Twain
Haverly’s
General Grant
Clemens
Chicago Evening Post
Indians Follow Bison Trails To Salt Licks Across Passes
In their migrations herds of bison followed established trails to salt licks away from their grazing grounds. The paths crossed low passes and easy gradients, guiding the animals during their journeys to and from essential mineral resources.
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Maantaing
Knowing the Trees Common and Uses of Ash Wood
A description of the White Ash tree notes its height from 60 to 80 feet with gray furrowed bark and silvery underleaf surfaces. It mentions leaflets typically seven, insect resistance, folklore about snakes and lightning, and historic uses by Native Americans for bows and paddles, plus modern textile and agricultural tool manufacturing. A quoted line from Knowing Nora comments on women wanting credit.
Illuminated Manuscripts Across Antiquity
The text traces illuminated manuscripts from Fifteen centuries before Christ when the papyrus Book of the Dead bore bright vignettes to later alphabetic writing where the key letters were highlighted with illumination.
Death by Own Action in Vienna Collar Button Tale
A Vienna dispatch describes Fritz Mimmler attempting suicide by jumping from a third floor window after a collar button mishap. A chauffeur says the man tried five times to fasten the button before the stud fell away, prompting the fatal choice. The piece argues habitual fussing and impatience leads to slow self destruction, exceeding the insignificance of the collar button at issue.
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Vienna
Fritz Mimmler
B Sound in Native American Languages And A Pomo Heroine
A discussion notes that many Native American languages lack the B sound, including Aztec and most North American languages. It cites Jamez in New Mexico as having a clean B and Pomo speakers in California possessing it, and mentions the name Bagil as a Bahgeel pr in the Pomo mythos with stories about her.
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Mexico
New Mexico
California
Bagil
Washington Star
Milk as a Complete Food Claim Explored
A historical note asserts milk contains nitrogenous elements, casein, cream fat, milk sugar, salts, and water, suggesting its sufficiency as a complete food. The author discusses its nutritional completeness and potential dietary benefits.
Fragmented 1930 Bell Syndicate Caption Teaser
A damaged OCR fragment hints at a 1930 Bell Syndicate caption or joke line. The incomplete text references pain and wet imagery, but no clear人物, place, or event is discernible.
The Galloway Ghink Creature From Irish Boglands
A whimsical tale describes an imagined Galloway Ghink living in Ireland’s peat bogs. It details its hairy facial growths whiskers and a fragile, tearful nature, and humorously explains how a hunter might misjudge its sack and the creature’s peculiar construction using simple, found materials.
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Galloway
Ireland
Camellia History Tied to Early South Gardens
The article notes camellias thrived in old Southern gardens and that some of the first plants brought to America remain near Charleston. It states the camellia is related to tea and may have been named in honor of a monk named Kamelius.
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America
Charleston
Kamel
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Ildren
City Child and Grandmother in Farmhouse Echo
A city child asks if the old farmhouse feels small after city life. Betty quips about a kitchenette as grandmother reacts, in a light domestic comic vignette from Chicago Daily News.
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Betty
Chicago Daily News
Congress grants California Indians right to sue over 1851 1862 land losses
Congress approves legal action by California Indian communities claiming land losses from treaties of 1851 and 1862. The ruling enables addresses damages and restitution efforts against affected parties and aims to settle longstanding territorial disputes.
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California
Nebraska farmer reports killing 103 rats on farm
A Nebraska farmer claims to have killed 103 rats on his farm using a product called Kills Rate Only, said to be effective and recommended by authorities. The note mentions potential risks to poultry and even baby chicks.
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Nebraska
Ebraska
Poultry Ven Dany
Farm Woman Benefited From Marriage and Farm Work
A Lickdale resident recalls marrying a farmer and helping run a 64 acre farm for eleven years. She credits farming life with improving her status and stability, noting she now manages household duties and supports the farm.
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Tion
Rion
Nam. Corp
Bawaxay
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