Health hints from Nellie Maxwell offer old time tips
An assortment of health advice appears, citing E R N E as a purifier and promoting beets, asparagus, onions, and garlic for circulation and tonics. Exercise guidance stresses posture and breathing, with lemon water for digestion. Recipe notes include baked corn and tomatoes and a final Old Testament word count claim.
Suspicion and Trust Tested by a Summer Plan
A correspondent recalls a humiliating moment from suspecting her maid of planning to leave for a summer resort. She stayed home, while her mother doubted the maid's commitment, causing the narrator to read every action as a hidden scheme to abandon them in a time of need.
Why We Are Penny Wise Pound Foolish
A reader argues that daily trips to save twenty cents a hundred on ice ignores transportation costs. He boasts of frugality while the hidden expenses of gas wear on the car and time wasted offset any savings.
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M. H. Thomson
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Penny wise and pound foolish thrift in everyday life
A long discourse on short sighted savings shows the danger of penny wise choices. It argues small immediate saves overlook larger future losses and warns against suspicion harming loyalty and efficiency. The piece cites personal examples of misplaced frugality and distrust.
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Penny
Humorous missteps in domestic life from Fred Barton
A letter to the editor humorously recalls small honest blunders in marriage. The writer notes cheerful reactions to mistakes like misidentifying a minister and overripe tomato garden adventures, arguing everyday fails keep couples grounded and avoid paragon-like perfection.
The Children’s Corner Craft Game
Children are given plain wrapping paper pieces cut into small shapes two inches or less. Each child creates a picture by pasting shapes into a design, then a vote decides the best overall creation. Peffen Beard.
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Peffen Beard
Breakfast Craft and Seed Necklace Fun
A family breakfast lesson turns into a seed craft project. Betty and Bobby string cantaloupe seeds into necklaces and build decorative seed boxes, while Father and Mother guide the craft and plan a seed painted jewelry box and a handmade cinema using a shoe box, mirrors, and funny paper strips.
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Bobby
Mother
Betty
Marion Brownfield
The Most Important Things by Douglas Malloch
A reflective verse on memory and the heart, suggesting past places linger in the mind and touch, and that the present often feels dominant while the past remains quietly essential. The poem asserts that little, meaningful moments endure within us.
Memory Improvement Pamphlet Explained
A reader asks about a pamphlet given as a reminder. The other person clarifies it is a booklet on how to develop one’s memory, described in a brief exchange.
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Don Martin
Rio Salado
Laredo
Texas
Portrait of Burns by Rae burn found in Scotland
A Raeburn portrait of Robert Burns from 1803, missing for over a century, was reportedly found by a miner's wife in Larkham Scotland. The canvas measures 27 by 23 inches with an indistinct Rae burn signature. It was purchased for a few shillings in a Glasgow second hand furniture shop.
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Raeburn
Robert Burns
Larkham
Scotland
Burns
Glasgow
Lydia E. Pinkham Remedy Praised By Dothan Woman
A Dothan reader reports the Lydia E. Pinkham Vegetable Compound helped ease her nervous and rundown condition. She says it made her strong enough to tend her four children and hopes other suffering women try it.
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Dothan
Ala
Lydia E. Pinkham
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