Lights of New York and Vignettes of a City
A 1933 Bell Syndicate collection recalls New York scenes and characters. An explorer recounts a daring financing offer from a wealthy stranger seeking to join an expedition. Senator Moses mocks autobiography in a quip. Tales of Delmonico’s memories, Hendricks dinner visits, race bets, street vendors, and Fifth Avenue moments follow.
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Fifth Avenue
Forty-fourth Street
Delmonico’s
Charley Murphy
Harvey Hendricks
Park Avenue
Mr. Hendricks
New York
Bell Syndicate
WNU
Grandmother’s Dinner Sparks Family Travel Plans
A humorous exchange about a grandmother visiting to cook for a week reveals family dynamics and a lighthearted look at shared meals. Mrs Newned notes the change after inviting her mother to join them.
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Tom
Travelers Ride Trains Free in Fiji Islands
Washington reports train passengers in the Fiji Islands ride without paying fares under an agreement between the government and Colonial Sugar Refining Company. A limited but regular passenger service operates from Rarawal to Kavaneusau over a light railway gauge, about 90 miles.
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Washington
Fiji Islands
Commerce Department
Fiji
Colonial Sugar Refining Company
Lmited
Rarawal
Kavaneusau
Colo West
Kitchen tips for garden beans and summer vegetables
Warm weather provides abundant salad materials the kitchen cabinet recommends using string beans fresh or canned with salt and cream for a quick hot dish. Save cooking water for gravies and drinks. add sugar to peas, corn, and vegetables for better flavor.
Banana plants die after fruiting then produce new shoot
After fruiting a banana plant dies slowly and a new plant grows from a basal shoot of the old stem, continuing the cycle.
Communistic Colony Planned on Crusoe Island
A former governess reports two German crew members from the Dresden, sunk near Juan Fernandez, plan to form a worldwide communistic colony on Crusoe Island near Valparaiso Chile. They seek recruits from around the world to live in a peaceful, secluded community away from modern life.
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Valparaiso
Chile
Juan Fernandez Islands
Sunlight Yellow Curtains Brighten a Room’s Mood
Gold and pale orange curtains create a lighter, sunnier feel in any room. The warm hues reflect light, boosting brightness and perceived space while adding a cheerful ambiance.
Bad Form Through The Ages In Social Etiquette
The essay traces the phrase bad form from racing the horse to modern etiquette. It notes the term gained metaphorical use in sports and general behavior and emphasizes politeness in social tables.
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Bell Syndicate
WNU
Sugar makes all better except those with plenty of sugar
The piece notes improvements come with sugar except those already rich in it and suggests daily medicine from a home garden. It praises raw vegetables like carrots beets and cabbage for easy digestion and health. It ends with a quip that a society girl's temper is likely made of belle metal.
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Western Newspaper Union
Corks Game for Rainy Days in Cheerio Chapters
Dorothy Edmonds presents a cork game for children using a pan of water and barricades made from twigs. Four players start with five corks each and must move them around the pan without touching barriers or sides, with the aim of getting all corks back to their section first.
Cork Doll Craft For All Size Children
The article explains making a cork doll from corks strung on flexible picture wire to form arms legs and body. It covers attaching parts with hooks, adding hands feet eyes and features with colored wire and crayons, and saving corks for future rainy days.
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Unica
Quick Dessert Tricks From Home Kitchen
Practical tips from the Associated Newspapers service advise using tart shells for fast desserts, filling with fruit or creamed mixtures. Suggests introducing new foods to children in small amounts and dissolving sugar in milk when frying cakes to reduce grease absorption. Also notes blanching oranges in boiling water to remove rind.
Texas Supplies Sulphur Needs of United States
Texas has been the sole sulfur producer in the United States for two years. In 1931 US imports added, but Texas output totaled 2,128,930 long tons, down 17 percent from 2,558,981 tons the previous year. Six mines supplied the state’s sulfur.
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Austin
Texas
United States
United States Department of Commerce
Becoming Civilized Chiefs Play Baseball
A missionary asks if natives are becoming civilized and the chief replies gradually. Eighteen chiefs played baseball last week and only four umpires were killed.
Restores Sight After Lumbar Puncture at Montreal General
A patient blinded by drinking poisoned alcohol regained sight after a lumbar puncture at Montreal General Hospital. Dr. G. H. Mathewson removed spinal fluid daily for four days. after the second puncture vision returned and was normal after the fourth.
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Montreal
Montreal General Hospital
G. H. Mathewson
Boundaries of the United States Reach Vast Length
The continental United States stretches nearly 18,000 miles along land and water boundaries, detailing a broad perimeter for national reach.
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Continental United States
World's oldest map unearthed by Harvard teams
Harvard authorities believe a crude clay tablet map found by the Semitic and Fogg museums at an ancient site in Iraq north of Babylon is the oldest map in the world. The hollow-hand sized tablet is estimated to date back more than forty centuries.
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Harvard
Semitic and Fogg Museums
Iraq
Babylon
Clock Marvel of Ingenuity at Paris Observatory
A newly completed clock for the Paris observatory announces the exact time every ten seconds by a robot voice when a telephone call is made. The innovation provides the exact time at regular intervals and required many months to build.
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Paris Observatory
Evidence of Antiquity of Hawaiian Islands
Ancient Hawaiian tradition aligns with science as Dr. Arthur Starr Eakle of the University of California estimates Hawaii to be at least one million years old. He cites rock and soil composition, with no silver or gold but copper traces and soils rich in iron and manganese.
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Hawaiian Islands
Arthur Starr Eakle
University of California
Hawaii
Shoes Hide Berlin Cabinet Maker’s Hidden Savings
A Berlin cabinet maker’s wife gave a beggar only four old shoes to distract him from her husband’s income. The shoes contained 1,500 marks in savings, which the beggar sold to a dealer unaware of the treasure inside. The dealer learned the owner’s story from a newspaper, returned the shoes and money to the police, and police returned them to the rightful owner.
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Berlin
Mrs Newwed Mother Recalls Furniture Polish Recipe
In London Tit-Bits a humorous note from Mrs Newwed Mother mentions a furniture polish recipe handed down with a tongue in cheek aside by Mr Newwed who critiques the soup. The playful exchange hints at domestic crafts and kitchen lore in a lighthearted column.
Lightning Strikes Kill Farm Animals in Virginia Yard
In Richlands Virginia lightning struck a tree in a yard killing a cow and six pigs beneath. Neighbor Dick Blankenship was on his front porch and escaped unharmed though his pipe burned and his shoe soles were burned away.
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Dick Blankenship
Richlands
Blankenship
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Olympic Park
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Frab Books Organic Laboratories
Dept.b
Long Beach
Cal
Peterman
ANT Food
Zeptemerk Reg. U. &. Pat
W.'N. U. Cleveland
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