Healthy Living Do's and Don'ts Advice for Daily Habits
The passage urges standing sitting and walking properly, sleeping well, eating slowly and tasting foods, staying serene, ventilating rooms, dental hygiene, wearing light breathable clothes, regular bowel elimination, adequate water intake, balanced work and rest, outdoor activities, varied foods including hard and bulky items, avoiding poisons, breathing exercises, and moderation in protein and salt. It promotes avoiding infections and maintaining overall wellness.
Wit and Wisdom on Money and Morals
A humorous meditation on money and relationships notes that generosity can shape forgiveness and appetite for gain. It jokes that cash enables desires, while patience shortens waiting, and hints that married life alters priorities from grand gestures to everyday habits.
Make Child Nervous By Being Nervous
A line from an Exchange item questions how to affect a child by showing anxiety and overprotection. It lists behaviors like worrying aloud about his health and habits and denying independence, suggesting the impact of nervousness on a child.
Household Hints for Cleaning and Care
Ammonia removes grease from coat collars and should be used frequently. Paint nails used to hang damp clothes with white enamel. A tablespoon of turpentine on wash day brightens and whitens clothes. Dissolve starch in wash water to make windows clear and sparkling. Use rain water for storage batteries instead of distilled water to save money and avoid charges.
The Poor Are Rich If They Work With Dignity
Poem-like reflection describes the poor as rich when they work at a task they love, save self-respect, eat with gratitude, keep contentment, harbor no hatred, live in homes of kindness, and shut out envy from their hearts.
English Humor Through Ambivalent American Light Tales
In Lord Aberdeen's collection a tale shows American humor as dry and oblique. A stranger asks a local for Hartford distance and is told the route yields about 24,000 miles one way or a mile and a half the other. Another example features a subdued inference in a golf remark about giving it up.
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Lord Aberdeen
Canada
America
New England
Hartford
Bolivar Named Liberator for South American Freedom
Simon Bolivar born in Caracas on July 24 1773 earned the title Liberator for leading Independence struggles in Venezuela New Granada and Bolivia. A noble birth and liberal education shaped a life devoted to liberty. He served as first president of Colombia in 1819 and later ruled North Peru Bolivia before dying of fever near Santa Marta on December 17 1830.
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Simon Bolivar
Caracas
Venezuela
New Granada
Bolivia
Europe
South America
Spain
Republic of
Colombia
North Peru
Bolixia
San Pedro
Santa Marta
Yell Allegedly Helps Momentary Airborne Dizziness
Naval flight surgeons report that a loud high pitched yell with minimal breathing can force blood into head veins to relieve dizziness during flight. The trick can curb dizziness during high speed maneuvers by increasing pressure and blood flow to the brain.
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Naval
Family Resemblance Jokes Surface In Street Exchange
In a light street encounter Mrs. Brown faces humorous misreadings about likenesses between her children and her husband. The passerby notes the girl resembles Mr Brown while the boy is said to resemble Mrs Green, revealing the joke that each child is said to be from a different first husband.
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Mr. Green
Mrs. Brown
Putty Prank Sparks Staircase Showdown
A frascible colonel is struck by a piece of putty from a recently built house as he walks under a ladder. He chases into a room where three navvies confront him. the tallest admits throwing the putty and the colonel asks what he will do. The prank ends with the navvies and colonel in a tense standoff.
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Scotsman
Two Dollar Dinner for Six Mock Turtle Soup Menu
A thrifty menu offers six servings with mock turtle soup two cans at 14 cents each a quarter buys three cans of spaghetti with cheese and sauce stringless ticana bread asparagus peach halves lettuce and mayo costs listed coffee for six at 40 cents a can 194 dollars with six cents for fuel and minor errands.
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Mo Ther
Intelligent Dogs at King's College Hospital Case
In 1887 two fox terriers escorted a collie to King's College hospital London for treatment. Owner Mr Hunt, a noted bookseller, claimed the dogs used their proximity to the hospital to learn from accident victims and help their friend obtain care.
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King’s College Hospital
London
Hunt
Inventions at London Exhibition Boast Odd Contraptions
Boston correspondent reports on the International Exhibition of Inventions in London showcasing a collar boltion that cannot fasten on uneven shoulders, a unique umbrella design and other curious devices.
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London
Boston
Book and Stationery Sale Items at Low Prices
A Good Book Sheaffer Desk Sets Edgar A. Guest Poems Dictionaries priced from 1.00. Parker and Conklin Pencils Fountain Pens range 0.25 to 15.00. Peloubet's Select Notes for 1929. A box of Nice Stationery 0.50 to 1. Pen and Pencil Sets in handsome boxes.
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Edgar A. Guest
Parker and Conklin
Peloubet
Husband's Sins and a Wife's Understanding
A Farm and Fireside piece argues that a devoted wife’s love and patience can cover a multitude of a husband’s faults, reflecting on domestic harmony and marriage expectations.
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Washington
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