Jerry Muskrat Plans New House Near Smiling Pool
In a bedtime tale Jerry Muskrat decides to build a better house after a flood, sparking a playful exchange with Peter Rabbit. Jerry weighs sites, vows to avoid a repeat of last spring’s flood, and scouts the Smiling Pool for a fitting location while Peter watches with curiosity.
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Jerry Muskrat
Peter Rabbit
Smiling Pool
Peter
Jerry
Laughing Brook
Neter
T. W. Burgess
WNN Service
Chip shot technique hinges on address position and footing
The passage explains errors in chip shots arise from ball position at address and right foot placement. It notes the shot becomes easier to control when struck from the correct stance, allowing a low, well controlled flight.
Sweetening Life The Recipe For A Brighter Day
A poem urges adding sweetness to living as one would to dough and batter. It compares life to cooking and calls for forward looking, sympathy, comfort, and brightness to sweeten home and hearts. The author Douglas Malloch frames life as needing gentle, hopeful nourishment.
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Douglas Malloch
WNU
Enthusiastic recruits pay their own training at Navy air station
Members of the naval and marine air units refuse government cash shortages to train, paying their own expenses at the Naval Air Station in Washington, D.C.
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Naval
Marine Air Units
Naval Air Station
Washington, D.C
Water hole chains aid forest fire fight in BC north
The report notes water holes along British Columbia's northern highways supply portable gasoline pumps for fighting fires. It also discusses golf technique with emphasis on relaxed stance, wrist action, and controlled backswing as Bobby Jones demonstrates smooth swing mechanics.
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British Columbia
Bobby Jones
Bobby
Bell Syndicate
Kroners Boners Themed Classroom Tidbits
A collection of humorous exam tidbits and student writings notes made humorous by teachers. The text references Western farming by irritating the land and warns about air with over 100 percent carbolic acid being health dangerous. It mentions Venizelos as Greek cabinet members who resigned and defines a skeleton as a person without meat or skin.
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Venizelos
Fresh carrot salad and Hawaiians style chicken salad featured
The column suggests new salad ideas using tender carrots with lemon gelatin set on lettuce and a mayonnaise dressing. It also describes a Hawaiians style chicken salad with pineapple and celery, garnished with marinated asparagus tips. Collards are praised as a mild, cabbage like green cooked with salt pork for a nourishing dish.
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Western Newspaper Union
White hat and velvet scarf with Lanvin bar pin
A description of a formal ensemble featuring a large white velvet hat with a scarlet crown, a matching white velvet scarf secured by a Lanvin bar pin, and a white silk corduroy velvet swagger coat.
China Faces Famine From Deforestation and Floods
The New York Herald Tribune notes China’s deforestation has stripped northern provinces, causing drought in Shensi and floods on the Yangtse and Yellow rivers. It warns dikes risk failure, threatening millions and urging vast afforestation as the lasting cure, with foreign advisers guiding huge tree-planting programs.
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China
Shensi
Yellow River
Yellow River Valley
North China Plain
Kalfengfu
Honan
Yangtse
New York Herald Tribune
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