Billy Mink Attacks Kingfisher Nest in Laughing Brook
In this Children’s Story, Peter the beaver senses danger as Billy Mink crests toward Rattles the Kingfisher’s sandbank nest. Mink struggles up the loose sand while Rattles returns with fish, leaving Peter to mourn the looming tragedy and hope for a rescue that never comes.
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Rabbit
Smiling Pool
Rattles the Kingfisher
Laughing
Billy Mink
Pater
Billy
Birds
Rattles
Peter
T. W. Burgens
WNN Service
Beavers and Baths Seem to Herald Sundown
A fragment from a 17th century-sounding scene shows Matilda remarking on a day that grows bright as girls peel off to bathe at sunset, with Wilk mentioned in the seaside setting.
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Matilda
Unusual Butters G Unger Sauce and Butter Variants
A vintage recipe note describes herb butter horseradish butter and green butter to accompany meats fish and lamb. It lists ingredients including butter parsley lemon juice horseradish pepper grass and cayenne with directions to mix and chill for serving.
Butter Preparation Note From 1932 Western Union
A fragmented instruction notes butter addition steps including mixing and passing through a sieve into a bowl with timing unspecified. The source cites 1932 and the Western Newspaper Union as the origin.
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Western Newspaper Union
Boners and quips from education pages of Napoleonic era
A Nina Wilcox contributed piece mocks exam papers with humorous captions. It notes railroads watering stock as a joke, portrays Lady Macbeth in grotesque terms, and uses facetious to describe Mussolini’s followers. It surveys witty deflections on language and rhetoric with playful definitions.
Bound to Clear ly puddles in a wet harvest tale
Douglas Malloch writes of Tom Wall who faces a rainy spell with grit. Even when skies gray and work paused, Wall plans to build a bin and wait out the downpour. The message: times may be bad, but the fields will dry and the harvest comes.
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Tom Wall
Tom
Douglas Malloch
WNU
Fable of the Hungry Fattes Seeker ae Se By George Ade
A satirical tale recounts a bungling boat trip for a tuna and a bumbling lover seeking fame in a club scene. It follows a failed fishing misadventure, a cocky Grizzly hunt, a flirtatious escapade with a vamp, and Herbert J Prangle’s rise and fall as fame through publicity and self delusion.
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George Ade
Catalin
Coney Island
Guardian Angels
Dauntless Nimrod
Sallora
Rita Pozeta
Chamber of Commerce of
Oklahoma City
Okla
Europe
Monte Carlo
Bill
Bud
Herbert J. Prangle
Flo
Mr. Prangle
Tin
Uancle
Jason
Herb
York
Gréphie
Rangoon in India: a growing city by the river
Rangoon in India houses about 400000 people with a good water supply and modern homes. Built along the Rangoon river about 40 miles from the Bay of Bengal, it features a great pagoda likened to an inverted ice cream cone. Visitors come from far and wide to see this sacred site.
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Rangoon
India
Bay of Bengal
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