Peter Rabbit Does Not Play Today
In a rural tale from 1932, the Merry Little Breezes seek Striped Chipmunk and friends for a game, only to find all creatures busy or asleep. Peter Rabbit, found working to clear brambles and lay new paths for future play, declines invitations, surprising his peers who expect him to romp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westwind
Tie
Striped Chipmunk
Chatterer
Red Squirrel
Happy Jack
Gray Squirrel
Johnny Chuck
Bobby Coon
Billy Possum
Prickly
Porky the Porcupine
Paddy
Beaver
Jerry Muskrat
Southland
Merry Little Breezes
Peter Rabbit
Peter
Briar Patch
Green Forest
Tye
Brier
T. W. Burgess
WNN
Each Step Will Tell by Douglas Malloch
A thirty lines poem on moral choice and gradual ascent and descent. It argues life is a series of small steps where we rise or fall, with no sudden wall between earth and skies and stresses constant vigilance and adherence to principle. The piece reflects moralizing verse from 1932 supplied by WNU Service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglas Malloch
WNU
Bell Syndicate
Boners A person survives by keeping head above water
A brief note states that a person does not drown in Great Salt Lake if the head remains above water, reflecting a cautious survival reminder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Salt Lake
Boners and paradoxes from old exam humor
A clipped collection of humorous test answers and quips from 1932. It riffs on body care, legal rights, the Magna Carta, butter production, suffrage, and literature. The items parody student reasoning with wry observations on life, liberty, and love in a concise carnival of playful misinterpretations.
Good Sauces Well Made for Meat and Vegetables
A practical guide to sauces with white bases using butter flour onions stock sugar mustard tarragon vinegar and tomatoes. It covers tomato tomato and egg yolk emulsions for roast meats and fish or calves head with lemon juice, attributed to 1932 Western Newspaper Union.
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Western Newspaper Union
Astonish in Mexico City in 1920s feature on its history
A National Geographic prepared survey paints Mexico City as a city of contrasts from Aztec echoes to modern trade. It describes the plaza, palaces, and a waterway network with canals, celebrations, and a traffic stream. It notes historical milestones from Cortes to Maximilian and Mon tezuma, and details the Valley of Mexico’s lakes, dikes, and canals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Geographic Society
Washington, D. C
WNY Service
Exico City
North America
Pascual Ortiz Rubio
Abelardo Rodriguez
Mexico
White House
Mexico City
Washington
Balbuena Field
el Paso
Denver
Colorado
Valley of Mexico
Anahuac
Mexican Highlands
Tenochtitlan
Texcoco
Lake Texenco
Luis de Velasco
Tajo de Nochistongo
Holland
Roosevelt Dam
Panama Canal
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United States
National
Foxhunters’ Association
A. G. Rolfe
Richmond
St. L. Hays
Buckhannon
W. Va
By Thornton W. Burgess
Wolverine
Harry Newman
University of Michigan
By Douglas Malloch
Bruyere
Rockefeller Institute For Cancer Research
Copenhagen
Denmark
Rockefeller Foundation
Albert Fischer
Girugg
Kitty McKay
Nina Wilcox Putnam
America
Mercury
Cortez
Montezuma
Winfield Scott
Maximilian
Diaz
Madero
Carranza
Obregon
Calles
Cinco de Mayo
16 de Septiembre
Plaza Market
the Valley of Mexico
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