Peter Rabbit and Sooty the Swift Meet at Old Orchard
Peter Rabbit watches Sooty the Swift soar overhead in the Old Orchard at twilight. Johnny Chuck challenges Peter to distinguish Sooty’s true identity, arguing many neighbors are misunderstood until they learn more. Peter admits uncertainty, reflecting on curiosity, friendship, and how appearance can mislead.
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Johnny Chuck
Brownie the Thrush
Peter
Fitter
Sooty
Swift
Skimmer
Huhl
Johnny
Huh
Peter Rabbit
Chuck
T. W. Burgess
To Find Truth Through Reason Or Feelings
A quotation from F. W. Robertson on truth, arguing two paths to understanding. He asserts that profound truths are felt, while deep insight comes from love and emotional perception. The passage emphasizes loving a person as the best route to understand him and feeling a truth as the sole means of grasping it.
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F. W. Robertson
Harles Farnsworth
Tunistan Valley
Ore
Idaho Line
Perfect Caster Sets World Record in National Casting Tourney
Perfect Caster Frank Stee of Lincoln Park Casting Club Chicago achieved a perfect 100 at Carnegie Lake Pittsburgh in the National Association of Scientific Casting Clubs tournament. The score marks a new world record for dry fly accuracy casting, the first perfect score ever recorded.
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Frank Stee
Lincoln Park
Chicago
National Association of Scientific Casting Clubs
Carnegie Lake
Pittsburgh
Boners and Blunders in a Laugh-Laden Review
A fragment lists humorous academic tidbits and wordplay such as a sure-footed animal that never misses when it kicks and a bus nicknamed blunderbuss. It notes truancy, resurrection, bare arms, and a noun riddle about trousers, ending with a dated Bell Syndicate WNU Service snippet from 1933.
Sweet Pie and Candied Fruit Treats by Western Union
Many readers will enjoy describing lemon sponge pie orange squares and fig pudding with rich details. Recipes include lemon sponge filling folded eggs and milk with butter sugar and lemon zest. Other items cover orange squares gelatin orange juice nuts candied fruit and a whipped cream lemon sauce for fig pudding.
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Western Newspaper Union
Cookie Day in the Week Song by Malloch
A verse celebrating Saturday as cookie day with playful lines about fixing, mixing, batter, and baking. The poem notes the week from Sunday to Friday and ends with Saturday’s special day. Dated 1932 and attributed to Douging Malloch via WNU service.
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Douging Malloch
WNU
Burn and Scald Definitions and Fatal Threshold
A burn results from dry heat above 140 degrees IF and a scald from moist heat above 120 degrees PF. Clinically no distinction exists between them. Fatal outcomes occur when about one third of the total body area is affected, even superficially.
California Fig Syrup Promises Gentle Relief for Children
In a classic testimonial, a Western mother recounts using California Fig Syrup to ease her constipated infant. She notes quick relief, improved color, energy, and cheer, claiming her daughter Roma Lucile became sturdy and happy. The ad warns to seek the genuine product by the California label on the carton.
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California
H. J. Stoll
Valley
Nebraska
Roma Lucile
West
Grand Canyon described as vast and uniquely beautiful
The piece notes that the Grand Canyon defies description and calls it a national park since 1919. It explains the Colorado River carved 100 miles of stone over millions of years creating a canyon unmatched in size and color, likening it to a reversed mountain chain as described by A Edward Newton.
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Grand Canyon
Colorado
Ike
Edward Newton
The
Atlantic Monthly
Indistinct Message From A Son About Mother Bunny
An Indianapolis man regularly receives a noon call from his ten year old son. The child’s reply to questions about his mother’s condition is garbled but seems to say she is ill after eating grass. The father fears a dire situation, only to learn the boy meant mother bunny and not his mother.
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Indianapolis
Bunny
Indianapolis News
National savings in 1981 and 2011 depositors and totals
Bank statistics show nearly half the population held savings accounts in 1981 with 51,000,000 depositors and about 28.25 billion dollars in savings. Over the 20 years before 1981 annual savings averaged about 1 billion dollars. By 2011 there were 17,000,000 accounts totaling just under 8 billion dollars.
Swine Ignore Opinions and Pearly Value Claims
A terse note says swine disregard others judgments on value and cannot be teased. The remark underscores their indifference to external valuation and attempts to provoke them.
Promote Bagdad Tea Claiming Quick Slimming Results
An advertisement promises rapid weight loss for women using Bagdad Tea a pure vegetable product. It claims to melt fat from arms legs bust and hips without dieting or exercise offering a money back guarantee and a three week supply for one dollar mailed in plain wrap from Nor-San Laboratories Peoria Illinois.
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Nor-San Laboratories
Peoria
Ilinois
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Tokyo
J Dry
Japan
Hildren’s Story
Thornton W. Burgess
Olly
Mr. Sun
Green Meadows
Green Forest
Bell Syndicate
By Douglas Malloch
St. Louis
Anahl
National Savings
Lydia E. Pickham
Hummel
Hamburg
Potter Drug & Chemical Corp
Malden
Masa
Dr.Morse
Kodak Films
P. O
Fie Molnes
N. U
Des Moines
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