The Fable of How Weddings Have Sold Off
A satirical account of a lavish wedding for Rosalie Jellaby and Walter Dingleforth, detailing extravagant décor, crowded venues, and social commentary. Guests debate modern nuptials, with老gossipers recalling past wedding customs and criticizing today’s appetite for display. The piece ends noting the usual justice of the peace fee.
Causes of Earthquakes Puzzles Experts
A Detroit News writer notes earthquakes arise from multiple causes. The main factor is faulting where rock slips in the crust. Shifts along a known fault after 1906 California quake reached one to three feet over 300 miles. Other causes include volcanic explosions, cavern collapses, avalanches, landslides, and delta slope slumpings. Great quakes cluster near volcanic regions and near continental edges by the sea.
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Detroit News
California
The Holly Oak Suiting Southern California Parks
A Los Angeles Times writer notes California has over 200 oak species with fifteen native to the state. Among southern natives the evergreen live oak Quercus agrifolia is common in parkways, but the holly oak from southern Europe may perform better near the ocean due to less mildewing and twig borer susceptibility, though the native oak grows straighter when young.
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California
Europe
Los Angeles Times
Early U S Postal Privileges Expanded in 18th Century
The record notes that on March 3, 1797 letters to George Washington could be received and conveyed free of charge, with later revisions in 1799 replacing death penalties for mail robbery with flogging, franking privileges extended to John Adams in 1801, and a 1802 act moving mail between Petersburg Virginia and Louisville Georgia to mail coaches. A general post office opened in Washington on May 29, 1800.
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George Washington
John Adams
Petersburg
Louisville
Washington
Mind and Body Nourished by Wise Food for Thought
A 1933 Bell Syndicate WWIU feature argues mind and body require nourishment, detailing how mental food rivaling physical sustenance sustains health. It urges feeding the mind with positive thoughts books and ideas, stressing courage happiness and spiritual growth through noble companionship and study.
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Bell Syndicate
WWIU
Will Be Sought If a Man Always Expresses Opinion
A compact aphorism notes that if a man never voices his view, others will demand his stance and seek his opinion in every matter. The saying underscores social pressure to speak up and the expectation of opinions from public figures.
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Europe
Rosalie
Akron
Belasco
Rockefeller Foundation
Dun
Bradstreet
Abner
Springfield
Capitol
Justice of the Peace
Advice to daughters on Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription
Miss Celesta M Fivecoat of Omaha says one bottle of Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription cured her nervous depression headaches and low energy. The ad promotes the medicine for nervousness monthly pains heat flashes and catarrhal drains and urges readers to write Dr Pierce’s Clinic in Buffalo NY.
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Dr. Pierce
Celesta M. Fivecoat
No. 17Th St
Omaha
Buffalo, N. Y
Kruschen Salts Promises Shape Change For Women
A Worcester Massachusetts reader from January 3, 1933 states Kruschen Salts reduced her hips and double chin after about two months. The ad claims the product safely reduces wide hips, a prominent chin, and boosts spirit and youth, with a money back guarantee after the first jar.
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P. E. Gardner
Worcester
Mass
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Walter Dingleforth
Jellaby
Old Post Regulations
OUR Comic
Little
Finney
Law
Éntern Newspaper Union
Lissen
Tonic
Einstein
Ando
Deisy Fly Killer
Harold Somers, Inc
Brooklyn
N.Y
Daisy Fly