Mud and Mischief At Paddy Pond
Paddy the Beaver hides as Buster Bear rolls in mud to ease bee stings from Busy Bee. Farmer Brown's Boy also coats face in mud and watches, while a breeze clues Buster into a hunter’s scent and he heads toward the rushes where Paddy and the Quack family shelter.
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Paddy the Beaver
Paddy
Farrer Brown
Buster Bear
Quack
Farmer Brown
Buster
Bee
Beaver
T. W. Burgess
WNU Service
French Dishes Chaux a la Creme and Boeuf ala Mode
Step by step kitchen notes describe Chaux a la Creme batter pastry fried into puffed bites filled with whipped cream or jelly. Boeuf ala Mode covers marinating beef in spiced vinegar, larding with pork, stuffing with crumbs and herbs, browning, simmering with vegetables, then serving with potato balls and onions. Included is Salad Romaine with crisp lettuce leaves prepared for serving.
Posterity Thematic Puzzles From A 1932 WNU Service Note
A quirky text lists obscure terms and playful definitions. It riffs on posterity through absurd examples and wordplay referencing Notre Dame gargoyles and angels, offering a humorous look at language and memory from a 1932 WNU Service bulletin.
Man as mortal not the stellar creation says poet
A reflective piece notes humans as flawed despite long time of time and nature's order. It contrasts steady celestial cycles with mortal errors and urges virtue in strength bravery truth gentleness and usefulness. The writing references a 1933 quote and a companion dressing recipe instruction.
Viking Jewelry Cache Found Near Visby Sweden
A cache of pearls gold ornaments and inlaid jewelry was found under a large stone near Vis by Sweden by two fishermen. The trove includes 150 pearls 9 gold pendants and 25 bronze inlaid necklaces. No burial site nearby suggests a hidden stash by the owner for safekeeping. Gothland island and Visby hosted later Hanseatic trade activity.
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Visby
Sweden
Gothland
Baltic Sea
Hanseatic League
Douglas Fairbanks Jr Delivers Ham It Plot Rebuff at Studio
Douglas Fairbanks Jr burst into a First National writers meeting and pitched a new plot he had just thought up. He outlined it in detail but without dates and was dismissed as episodic and no good by the gathering of story writers. He left with a grin and quipped that the tale he had just told was the plot of Hamlet.
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Douglas
Fairbanks, Jr
First National
Hamlet
Boston Herald
Kruschen Salts Ad Promises Safe Fat Loss
An elderly reader testifies that Kruschen Salts helped her lose 65 pounds by taking a half teaspoonful daily in hot water before breakfast for four weeks per jar. The ad touts affordability and recommends buying at any drugstore worldwide.
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Bates
Beech
Iowa
Jose
Mel Casa Pee
Easy to Believe and Blooming Idiot Sayings
A fragment quotes a conversation on belief and family praise. It notes a man described as the flower of the family and contrasts it with a jab about a lazy man found to be a blooming idiot.
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Eee
Dada
WNU
Roners
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Paris
Henry
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Bel Syndicate
Lord’s
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Lincoln
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