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Newspaper
Vernal Express
Location
Vernal, Utah, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1934
Page
7
Advertisement for pattern 2005 i3 offering a simple slip design suited to slender or large figures. Details include sizes 81 to 50 and 2144 yards of fabric for size 86, illustrated sewing instructions, and order info to Sewing Circle Pattern Department, 243 West Seventeenth Street, New York City.
A fragmentary excerpt shows a mother speaking of urgent home duties and harsh times while noting twice her husband sent money unasked. The dialogue suggests financial strain and dependence within a troubled household.
A fragment shows Ferdy apologizing to a maid and offering chocolates for a woman who wished for them, highlighting a quirky domestic exchange between a servant and a caller. The dialogue hints at mistaken motive and polite endings.
Mrs Jones asks what hymn the pianist plays and the husband recognizes the piece as the start of Stormy Weather during a Vancouver Province wedding event.
A short exchange about a pupil asking whether her daughter can do anything with her voice. The professor replies it might be useful in the event of frequent need.
Peter and Jenny Wren discuss Hummer the Hummingbird and his nest in the Old Orchard. Jenny explains nesting material, long winter migration, and Mrs Slummer’s two babies while warning about Chatterer the Red Squirrel.
Psychologists at Columbia University’s child development clinic report infants’ impressions leave no lasting memory or influence future behavior. The discussion warns against unnecessary cruelty and frightening a child with tales of the bogey man, highlighting concerns about parental discipline and language.
The article notes no exact evidence for the origin of the term gob in U S Navy sailors but says it was used for English coast guards long ago. An old sense of gob is to spit, suggesting a possible source for the nickname.
A disjointed OCR fragment recalls a mother calling a child “a bad wicked boy” and “trouble to mother” at a public beach. It mentions a dysized mother overheard berating a slow toddler with the phrase Keeping me here freezing You Little Pest while noting babies’ memories.
A Sunday night lunch menu from the Western Newspaper Crisn includes a cheese toast dish with butter milk eggs and paprika, a boiled roast beef with potatoes around it and optional onion or garlic for flavor, buttered parsnips cooked without water until brown, a date and walnut dessert with bread crumbs and whipped cream, and salmon sandwiches with sour pickle and salad dressing on buttered bread.
A terse verse about changing attitudes as boys leave schoolyard games and see girls differently. It contrasts earlier teasing with now treating girls with respect and distance, noting the shift from rough proximity to guarded admiration.
Q and A humor column with letters to Mr Wynn. A reader seeks policy and humor answers on Prohibition surprise, a nude burglar, mileage per gallon, and wheat prices in an economics scenario. Each reply gives a witty, lighthearted solution.
A vintage craft item describes a three piece linen set with floral leaves and border motifs. Instructions suggest green leaves, colored flowers, and outline lazy daisy stitches, offered by Home Craft Co in St Louis along with pricing for one, two, or all three pieces.
Many garden insects prove valuable by destroying pests. Ladybird beetles feed on plant lice and scale insects in both larvae and adults. Ground beetles and their grub cutworms reduce pest numbers. Harpalus beetles, common in gardens, also destroy cutworms. Lacewings and other parasitic insects aid natural control.
The passage notes how the Filipinos were called by the Spaniards as Filibinos or Filipinas in honor of Felina or Philip of Spain during 1565. It mentions native terms Chipfoos and discusses language notes on the phonetic representation of the £ sound and a reference to Wogish and Lagiish languages.
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