Ready for Guests Dishes Make Prep Easy and Elegant
A 1933 Western Newspaper Union feature offers make ahead ideas for hosting. Chicken Salad in Cracker Boxes uses gelatin bound cracker boxes filled with a celery and chicken salad. Whole Wheat Bread Sandwiches combine butter with cottage cheese and salted peanuts as a filling.
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Western Newspaper Union
Seafaring Men Drafted To Drink But Not Drive
A humorous item notes seafaring men prone to collisions while drinking. It defines Poners as humorous exam tidbits and offers definitions for faith, period, period costumes, polygon, and sinecire in a light satirical tone credited to 1932 Bell Syndicate WNU service.
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Bell Syndicate
WNU
Peter spies Rattles Kingfisher’s hidden burrow discovery
Peter the Rabbit hides and watches as Rattles the Kingfisher dives to a ground burrow by the Laughing Brook. He confirms Rattles’ underground home and notices Billy Mink approaching, foreshadowing a contest for the fish-filled lair.
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Rabbit
Rattles
Kingfisher
Peter
Rattles the Kingfisher
Laughing Brook
Billy Mink
Billy
T. W. Burgess
WNU Service
You Cant Stop Women by Douglas Malloch
A 1932 poem asserts that women cannot be stopped from working through household tasks and labor. It playful ly notes women sweep dust, mend items, and manage chores, while claiming the only way to halt them is to reduce their duties. The piece critiques gendered labor expectations with humor.
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Douglas Malloch
WNU
Illiteracy Gap: City Less Illiterate Than Rural Population
Census figures from the Department of Commerce show city illiteracy at 4.3 percent for ages ten and over, with rural areas higher at 15.11 percent for seniors. The data define illiteracy as inability to read or write in any language.
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Department of Commerce
The Best Treatment for Falling Hair
Dandruff and itching scalp addressed by Rab with Caticura Seap to clear minor eruptions and improve scalp health. Seep Sc ointment 25 and Sée Satople seb Gree. Address: Caticure Dept 3T Maiden Mace.
Pendulum Clock Shows Gravity Effect on Travel
An official at the Dominion Observatory notes a pendulum clock gains about one minute 20 seconds daily when moved from Ottawa to the Mackenzie River mouth due to latitude gravity differences. At an elevation near 5000 feet on a British Columbia mountainside it loses about 13 seconds per day.
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Ottawa
Mackenzie River
Northwest Territories
Dominion Observatory
Department of the Interior
British Columbia
Think Without Thinking, Rice Leader Says
Dr Edgar Q Lovett of Rice Institute Houston argues education should train perceiving remembering and reasoning to work by will with machine-like efficiency and precision. He calls for students to develop thinking powers that operate without conscious effort.
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Edgar Qdeil Lovett
Rice Institute
Houston
Texas
Italian shoemaker poet resumes work after poetry on shoes
A sixteen year old shoemaker-poet in Frosinope Italy regains his job after authorities notice his verse written inside women's footwear. Employers had discharged him when news spread that customers valued the sentimental lines hidden in the inner leather.
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Frosinope
Italy
Swindler in Belgrade Sentenced to Five Years Hard Labor
Michael Obradovich of Belgrade Yugoslavia received five years hard labor for swindling twenty five fiancées over five years. He was ordered to repay every cent he swindled. Several victims offered to pay his fine if he would marry, but he declined.
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Michael Obradovich
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Population of Cities Over One Million
A historical note states that twelve percent of the nation’s population resides in cities with populations of 1,000,000 or more. It highlights urban concentration and the distribution of residents in large metropolitan areas.
Knows His Girls Harry Proposes to Rose
A playful exchange between Harry and Rose centers on a marriage proposal. Rose gently declines while praising his good taste, ending with a lighthearted nod to mutual respect.
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Harry
Rose
Alwaya
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