1933 World’s Fair broadcasts featured Lithuanian and Ukrainian halves
Seer natson announces a November 15 program with Lithuanian and Ukrainian halves from 3 to 5:80 p.m. and 3:30 to 4, featuring Genevieve and Stephanie Zimbalist. Future days include greetings to Luvia, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, and a December 6 showcase “A Century of Progress” sending reputations worldwide to Canada and France.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seer Natson
Ensbeanian
Prion
Progranm
Genevieve
Maxim Korteluck
Stephanie Zimbalist
Fai
Luvia
Czachoslovakia
Roumania
Bulgaria
The Old Duck Ranch and Midwestern Poultry Changes
A veteran poultry marketer recalls Midwestern shifts from winter shipping limits to cold storage and transport advances. He recounts buying ducks on four Iowa acres, building waterworks and slaughter facilities, housing thousands of ducks, and selling them in boxes after cold storage. He notes competition from Long Island and the rise of specialized poultry farms threatening local broiler production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Llinda
Middle West
Fee
Iowa
Long Island
Easy methods on old fruit cake recipes for home bakers
A guide to simple fruit cake methods using ready prepared ingredients. It outlines shake free tasks like peeling fruit and shelling nuts, then provides three recipe variations Viking Fruit Cake Yankee Fruit Cake and Tennessee Fruit Cake with ingredients and baking steps for rich dark and economical options.
Jokes and Quips From a Bygone Page
A collection of humorous exchanges and quips from a newspaper page. A motorist shields a game with a wary cop, a playful wedding anniversary banter, a claim about a paper’s accuracy, and a pun about an Englishwoman's weight expressed in pounds.
SISTER TRIO PLAYS ONE ROLE ON SCREEN
Three sisters Mariposa Monterey and Luisine portray a single character in Rich Man's Folly starring George Bancroft. Filming took place at Bethlehem Shipyards Quincy Massachusetts where the Mariposs launch was shot. The Monterey ship served as the mime ship while the keel for Lulline was laid and photographed. A rapid film schedule began with a launch within a week, a project normally lasting eighteen months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Bancroft
Bethlehem Shipyards
Quincy
Mass
Paramount Star
Monterey
Fragments of Old Tales and Echoes of Nonsense
A collage of humorous exchanges and misheard lines features a absent minded hunter who bakes pancakes on a griddle, a quip about stealing a car, and a college trio greeting Father Abraham Jacob Saul. A street scene shows a mother and child discussing straw strewn to dull traffic noise near a house with a hedged baby’s crib.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abraham
Father Isaac
Father Jacob
Saul
Kish
Cave Aimdy
Classified Ads Mixed Fragments and Quips from a Local Paper
A jumble of lines from a newspaper page shows garbled classifieds and anecdotes. It includes a child selling small pets and straw, stray quotes about lawyers and doctors arguing profession merit, a sibling joke about a new sister, a wife prompting her husband about buttoning a dress, and college student banter about a failing problem.
Washington Ends Military Commission In New York Return
Washington rode into New York on November 25, 1788, at the head of a grand parade marking the British evacuation after more than seven years. The event followed his long struggle for liberty and signaled the end of his military command as he prepared to surrender to Annapolis and retire. The commemoration, led by the United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission, urged nationwide remembrance of his revolutionary leadership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rge
Washington
Uae Ples
Harlem
Bowery
New York
Pennsylvania Packet
Washingjton
Clinton
Knox
Queen Street
Broadway
Cape’s Tavern
Congress
Annapollis
United States
George Washington
Aveeuican
Changing Times on Women and Gifts Across Eras
A reflective piece notes shifting views on women's importance over three years. It parodies a past gift of laundry soap and a wringer, then cites a modern gesture of giving paper and a new typewriter ribton New York Herald Tribune. It discusses the phrase giving a cop to Cerberus as a bribe to quiet a troublesome customer and explains Cerberus as the three headed Greek mythic guard of the underworld.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Herald ‘Tribune
Cerberus
Cerberne
Washington's Lost Thanksgiving Proclamation Unearthed
The 1789 presidential proclamation calling for a National Day of Thanksgiving was long forgotten after its Oct 3 1739 date and found in 1921 by Dr. J. C. Fitzpatrick. The document, handwritten by William Jackson and signed by George Washington, was purchased for $300 and now resides in the Library of Congress as a treasured artifact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
George Washington
George Washingon
New York
Philadelphia
Washington
J. C. Fitzpatrick
Manuscripta Divison
Library of Congress
New York City
Fitzpatrick
Wm. Jackson
Farm Sales and Property Sales in Rural Illinois Listings
Hiram George will hold a closing out sale Monday December 7 at his farm seven miles south of Mt Carroll five miles west of Chadwick and two miles east of Argo starting at 11 o clock. Sale includes horses cattle hogs farm machinery hay grain and household goods. Elisabeth Lewis property will be sold December 5 at 2 pm at the front door of the Thomson Bank. Ursa H Hartman will close out sale December 10 at the John Hartman farm eight miles southwest of Chadwick one mile south and two and a half miles east of Ideal Store starting at 10 30 with lunch at noon. Items include horses cattle sheep hogs chickens grain and farm machinery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hiram George
Mt. Carroll
Chadwick
Argo
Welock
Elizabeth
Ursa H. Hartman
John Hartman
Ideal Store
York Globe Trotters to play Ameraca Legion cagers at Fulton Coliseum
Fulton and dignity crowds welcome the York Globe Trotters as they visit for their fourth annual appearance. The team, known for colored collegiate stars, features center Jackson who can grab three balls at once. They previously played 61 games in a span of 61 nights, a remarkable endurance record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fulton
York Globe Trotteri Ug
Amerca Legion
Fulton Coliseum
Kane
Ed Boya
Jackson
Changing Aaystay Dialogue in Scots Dialect
A dialogue fragment shows a speaker asking if their golf patting is improving, and another responds that it is not getting better or worse, just eating queer. The exchange uses Scots phrasing and humor in a condensed vignette.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack
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Pro@rees
Globe
Canada
Recifes
News of Hollywood
Chas
Hamatra
Dukes Lusery
Joe
Ales
Alan
John Ashpole
Thomson, AL
Morrison
Carrell le F
Arthur E. Kniss
Lanark
John Loftus
Albany
Warsaw
Minis
N. E. Pell
Lincoln Highway
John Millex
Preston
Lews
Circular Egg Carrier Co
Vineland
N. J
Reppert
Box X
Decatur
Thomson
B. E. Lewis
Thome
Poe
Fred Smith
Poland
On Whistler
Unite
Wamingtong
T. H. Herrity
Wiles Bie
N. D. Goff Jeweler
2Nd Street
Clinton, Iowa
Kurt
Jaenicke
South Ind Street
W. H. Foster
M. D
Wilson
Fine Prairie Farms
Choice Farms
Mercer
Henry
Rock Island
J. Graske
Clinton, Lowe
the White-Phillips Company, Inc
First National Bank
Davenport
Musk Optical Co
Fulton, Ill
Aaystay
A. R. Johnson
Fisher
Shoe Hospital
Main Ave
Lyons
Banta
Tae
Stoecks
Howes
Tee
John A. Crook
Jad St. Clinton
BE — Ic
Johannes Bros
St. Cristes
Lows
Dallam’s Nursery
N. Ard St. Clinton
Dr. Rush
Sage
Hansen’s
Second Street
Careea RT
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