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Newspaper
Titonka Topic
Location
Titonka, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1932
Page
3
Jake, the older brother in a thrifty family, skips supper to win a blueberry pie eating contest and brings home four packages. He spends his winnings on presents for each family member and a chance to attend a big football game, while his blue stained suit and excited tale light up the home.
Walter Trumbull notes a golf match at Great Neck Long Island between Ed Wynn Jack Hazzard and Frank Craven joining in a lively scene. The event attracts actors managers writers and a few golfers with bets reportedly high as Craven lightens the moment with a humorous aside and tale of a show needing a funny tune.
Henry Gowdy, celebrated catcher, returns from service to the Boston scene amid a mayoral speech and a public gift of a diamond ring. Prominent locals financed the token of esteem as Gowdy stood with the ring, words failing him before a single exclamation.
A vintage recipe collection presents orange cream dessert and tapioca cream with whipped cream, plus chocolate and caramel sauces. It includes club cookies with shortening and sour cream dough, and a prune and apricot filling, all detailed for home use.
This guide shows how to create miniature doll house furniture using two pasteboard boxes. Use the cover for one story and the box for the other, stacking top sides up and ending with a folded front. It suggests three pieces plus more, with tips to lengthen a dresser for a bed, stabilize a table with paper strips, and widen the center of a dresser to form a couch.
A 1932 Bell Syndicate item explains the origin of the phrase know where the shoe pinches from a Roman general Lucius Aemilius Paulus who, when asked why he divorced, held up his shoe and said none of you knows where it hurts but the wearer.
Timothy 7 O Leary of New Bedford Mass recently awarded the Purple Heart says he wore the smallest uniform. He enlisted at 5 feet 2 inches and shoe size 5. O Leary served in New Yorks Fighting Sixty ninth and was briefly orderly for Col William J Donovan. He stood within 2 feet of Joyce Kilmer when the poet was killed.
The fragment warns that incessant scribbling is deadly to thought, echoing a Carlyle quotation about restraint in writing. It emphasizes conciseness and focus over continual, aimless composition.
Hides from the Yellowstone park herd, 78 in total, were tanned here and shipped to 14 national parks and the national park service in Washington. Distribution includes Rocky Mountain four, Glacier two, Grand Canyon four, Colonial Monument four, Zion one, Bruce Park one, Hot Springs two, Wind Cave two, Acadia four, Grand Teton four, Lassen Volcano one, Mount McKinley six, Hawaiian one, and Yellowstone thirty. Remaining hides went to Washington.
Advice on repairing scratches with walnut oil and polish, plus a quirky method for layering jams in a tall glass. Also mentions using a light bulb as a stocking udinar and cake finishing tips with warm water and separators.
A lesson on Numbers 10 guides readers through Israels march from Sinai. It details a 605000-strong army organized into four divisions, signals to march and rest, the ark's central role, Gods guiding presence, and Moses seeking Hobabs counsel before journeying toward Canaan. The piece stresses obedience to divine leadership and the need to trust Gods plan.
A compact collection of cryptic aphorisms and scattered phrases. The lines mention faith, growth, perfection, trifles, and a note about turning over a new lent. Names and clear context are missing, leaving a mosaic of scraps rather than a cohesive article.
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