Jerry Muskrat Plans a New House at Smiling Pool
In a scene from 1933, Jerry Muskrat jokes with Peter Rabbit about building a better home near the Smiling Pool after a flood. Jerry weighs risks, rejects the old site, and scouts locations with practical care, while Peter learns a lesson in preparedness.
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Jerry Muskrat
Peter Rabbit
Smiling Pool
Peter
Jerry
Laughing Brook
T. W. Burgess
WNN Service
Watch Position C TM Ball in Chip Shot
The article explains chip shot technique emphasizing ball placement at address, footwork, and a relaxed stance. It notes errors arise from wrong ball position, favors keeping ball forward for control, and describes wrist action and minimal backswing, citing Bobby Jones demonstrating relaxed posture and fluid arm swing.
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Bobby Jones
Sweetening Life With Sympathy Recipe for Living
A 1933 verse by Douglas Mailoch via WNU Service urges adding sweetening to life beyond culinary rules. It compares life to baking, calling for sympathy, comfort, and brightening hearts and homes as essential ingredients for a fuller, warmer living.
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Douglas Mailoch
WNU
Fresh Carrot Salad With Lemon Gelatin Twist
A brief note on savory salads praises new carrot varieties and suggests a tasty mix of fresh grated carrots, finely minced onion and celery folded into a lemon gelatin for serving. The guidance hints at versatile cold dishes and simple preparations.
Royalists Executed in Revolutions Across Europe
A historical note compares executions during two upheavals: in the French Revolution during the Reign of Terror about 2,590 Royalists were guillotined over fifteen months, and after the Sedan surrender in 1871 during the Franco Prussian War about 20,000 Royalists were executed in one week.
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Sedan
Bobs Irons Shot Technique and Classic Salad Advice
The note discusses golf swing with slow backswing and head down, favoring straighter faced irons for the shot. It also includes vintage cooking entries from 1933 covering chicken salad with pineapple, melon cocktail tip, mint syrup, and collard greens served with pork, reflecting Western Newspaper Union content.
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Bobby
Bell Syndicate
Western Newspaper Union
Boners and oddities in old exam notes
A humorous collection of teacher remarks and quirky definitions. It jokes about farming in the West, air safety with carbolic acid, Venizelos resignations, skeletons, capital punishment in schools, and sirens luring sailors with music, dated 1933 Bell Syndicate WNU Service.
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Bell Syndicate
WNU
Ragweed Seed Evidence Dates Indian Cultivation in Ozarks
Large quantities of ragweed seed found in dry rock shelters of the Ozark mountains indicate that ragweed was cultivated by Indigenous peoples centuries ago. The discovery suggests deliberate planting and storage of the weed, revealing a broader pattern of plant use in prehistoric communities.
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Ozark Mountains
Youth Confesses He Slew Mother to Get Her Cash
Balfe Macdonald a 17 year old from Flint and accomplice William Terwilliger 16 confessed to beating his widow mother Grace Macdonald to death with a book end in her Flint home. They fled to Louisville before learning of the slaying, took 45 dollars, rode south, and were captured in Nashville.
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Flint, Mich
Balfe Macdonald
Balfe
William Terwilliger
Nashville
Tenn
Macdonald
Grace
Terwilliger
Bill
Tewhey
Louisville
Place of Refuge for Thoughtless Sinners and Children
The writer extols a personal sanctuary a place of refuge where one may reflect and heal away from judgment. He urges children and adults alike to retreat to their own rooms or a quiet space to regain self control, aided by faith, prayer, and meditation, with guardianship provided by inner strength rather than immediate punishment.
Indians Accuse Love Charms In Wisconsin Case
In Ashland Wisconsin circuit court 24 Chippewa Indians petitioned Judge G N Risjord for clemency for Dorothy Beauregard who pled guilty to deserting her 11 children. They claim a love charm by Babidesh Cederroot controlled her actions and that witchery is practiced among the Bad River Indians.
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Ashland
Wis
Bad River Reservation
G. N. Risford
Dorothy Beauregard
Babidesh Cederroot
Eviction Bailiffs Routed by Women in Toronto Fight
In Toronto, three eviction officers attempting to remove Andrew Mishka and his ailing wife from 11 Cameron Street were set upon by four Ukranian women. The bailiffs were driven out, one by the front, another by the back, with the third fleeing. A cardboard sign in the Mishka home proclaims, We will fight all eviction cases, signed by the Council of the Unemployed.
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Toronto
Ont
Andrew Mishka
Cameron Street
Unemployment Council
Mishka
Council of the
Robin Receives Extra Caboose To Hatch Eggs
In Benton Harbor Michigan a robin perched under a freight train caboose to incubate two blue eggs. Conductor Roy Blodgett spotted the nest in the undercarriage and the railroad added an extra caboose on the next train with an order to use it until the robin finishes the brood.
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Benton Harbor
Mich
Roy Blodgett
Lightning Burns Watch Out of Owner's Pocket
In Pinetree Idaho Carl Beebe was struck by lightning while guiding three horses. He escaped with facial burns and was dazed. The blinding strike melted a hole through his watch in his pocket. the two outer horses died, the center horse survived.
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Pinetree
Idaho
Carl Beebe
Beebe
Happiness as the true measure of a child’s growth
The piece argues that test scores alone do not reveal growth. conduct and inner happiness matter. True growth is a harmonious inner peace that shines in a child’s eyes, movements, and laughter, not mere outer performance. Happiness indicates progress, while anxious or superficial signs may mask a lack of real development.
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United States
Bell Syndicate
Wnyu
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