Peter Rabbit and Short-Tail the Shrew Meet
Peter confuses his way along a tangled path as he ponders Short-Tail’s tricks. He doubts whether to ask neighbors about his new acquaintance, then decides to return home after chasing many twists and turns. Short-Tail appears briefly, then vanishes as Peter contemplates the shrew’s game.
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Peter Rabbit
Brier
Short-Tail the Shrew
Peter
Westinghouse Air Brake Invention Timeline
George Westinghouse invented the air brake in 1868 and secured the first patent on April 13, 1869 while living in Pittsburgh. The Pennsylvania Railroad tested an experimental air brake setup soon after. In 1872 he further developed the automatic air brake.
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George Westinghouse
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Peter Follows Short Tail Paths In Old Log Mystery
Peter, mistaking Short-Tall for a Mole, seeks the mouse’s private paths after finding an inch wide trail from an old log. He follows a series of tiny paths and contemplates meeting Short-Tall, hoping to make up for lost time.
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Short-Tall
Mole
Peter
Mrs. Peter
Short Tail
Short- Tall
Whitefoot the
Wood Mouse
Homemade Frozen Desserts from 1938 Recipe Notes
A collection of vintage methods for peach ice cream orange sherbet velvet lemon sherbet and related freezes from 1938 Western Newspaper Union. It details ingredients ratios including peaches sugar salt cream milk lemon juice and orange juice with steps for slicing pressing mixing freezing and resting before serving.
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Western Newspaper Union
RONERS Rameses and other humorous classroom lines
A collection of light verses and teacher notes featuring witty lines about RONERS Rameses left mummies in Egypt and other schoolroom quips. It includes odd definitions like an Oxonian as a man who drives oxen and jokes about watered stock and ground mice.
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Bell Syndicate
Proper turning in golf backswing for balance and power
The article explains common faults in the golf backswing where players fail to rotate the left side fully. It highlights the need for the left shoulder to turn with the left arm to complete the backswing, citing MacDonald Smith as a model for full pivot and inside out, balanced swing.
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MacDonald Smith
Smith
Bel Syndicate
French Ice Cream and Custard Base for Warm Weather
A simple custard method yields a nourishing ice cream that holds shape when frozen. Heat one quart milk and slowly whisk into four eggs with three fourths cup sugar and a quarter teaspoon salt, cook until thickened, cool, then add one cup heavy cream.
Enough by Douglas Malloch
A reflective poem about contentment with the old home place. The speaker values what is owned and memories over grander houses or larger farmland, noting the farm’s sufficiency in good and lean times. The piece emphasizes gratitude, resilience, and the sufficiency of simple homestead life.
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Hera
Douglas Malloch
WNU
Interstate Commerce Commission and rail rate powers
The article reviews the Interstate Commerce Commission’s expanding authority over railroad rates and structure. It explains suspension rules, through routes, and the Mann Elkins and Transportation acts shaping consolidation plans for four major eastern rail systems, amid carrier resistance and readjustment pressures.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
Finstein
St. Louis
Denver
Congress
United States
Western Newspaper Union
Fear of Snakes Passed Down Through Ancestry
Dr Raymond L Ditmars curator of the New York Zoological Park says monkeys show inherited fear of snakes based on ancestoral exposure in southern regions. He cites his Dutch ancestry as a reason for his own lack of fear and recalls bringing a king cobra to Washington by pullman.
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Raymond L. Ditmars
New York Zoological Park
Doctor Ditmars
New York
Washington
Pullman
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