Jerry Muskrat Builds Sturdy Home by Laughing Brook
Jerry Muskrat toils on a new house beside the Laughing Brook and finds happiness in productive work. He emphasizes strong foundations rooted in bulrush roots and sod, recalling the flood that swept away his prior home and insisting on broad, stout walls built to endure.
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Jerry Muskrat
Laughing Brook
Tak
Jerry
Taughing
Walla
Paddy the Beaver
Green Forest
Green Meadows
Smiling Pool
T W Burges
Wnu Bervica
Price and worth in hard times from Douglas Malloch
Poet Douglas Malloch reflects on prices of joy and folly, noting many goods have fallen while the cost of lasting happiness remains the same. He suggests honest character outweighs wealth as a richer measure of true fortune in any era.
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Douglas Bratoch
WNU
Michigan
Elis
Valucy
Tred Rundall
Amés Town
Randall
Golf Ball Change Sparks Modern Swing Adjustments
The shift to a heavier ball reduces need to custom tilt for lift and favors longer shots. Bobby Jones uses his driver in fairway play, while brassie and spoon shots become easier for the average golfer.
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Bobby Jones
Jones
Bell Syndicate
WIN Service
Through a Woman's Eyes
A fragment quoting an astrologer who says the best day to transact important business is when the constellations under which you were born align, describing a predicted lucky day based on birth planets.
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Nature
Sumatra
The Lucky Day Prophecy Spoils a Woman’s Deal
A 1938 Bell Syndicate feature claims a woman’s astrologically foretold lucky day brings power and success. She dismisses caution, acts on a pending deal, and gains favorable outcomes including a key executive contact and a husband. The piece ends urging readers that tomorrow could be their own lucky day.
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Iiler
Bell Syndicate
WIN Service
Equinoxes Move Zodiac Signs in Humorous Note
A lighthearted snippet notes that the precision of the equinoxes shifts Zodiac Signs. It mentions temperance differences by region and features a humorous quip from Priscilla about John. The piece ends with a playful medieval reference and a nod to Bell Syndicate via WNU Service.
Banana Desserts from the Mottier Cook Book
Banana desserts feature bowls and creams with banana pulp milk gelatin sugar and whipped cream. The banana gavards scald method uses a milk base with gelatin and banana pulp to set into a mold. A banana and coconut dessert adds lemon juice meringue coconut and browning. Banana bread pudding combines bread milk sugar bananas and eggs with a custard sauce.
Banana Fluff Dessert From 1933 Western Newspaper Colon
A recipe outlines Banana Fluff with sugar milk and lemon, then marshmallows cream and mashed banana pulp folded in. Serve hot or over ice cream with crushed strawberries for garnish.
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Colon
A Bachelor Git Says A Jocular Line On Age
An ironic quip from a 1933 WNU Service item mocks aging and gauge on appearances. The line suggests a man may feel younger or older than his years depending on mood and perspective.
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Ben Syndicate
WNU Service
Acreage Needed by Deer
An acre of forest supports four deer in summer, indicating larger tracts are required for sustainable populations. The note suggests several acres are necessary for longer term needs.
Roadside Marketing T. J. Delohery
A Michigan fruit grower’s roadside market shows sales rise and fall. Poor salesmanship and neglecting customer needs hurt repeat business while courteous, knowledgeable service and flexible guarantees build trust and profits.
The Queen of the West Featured in Welk Prize Story
A garbled text fragment hints at a Welk prize story titled The Queen of the West. Mentions include Beulah Stems, Bexbun, and Anhe with vague references to produce, sections, and intermountain themes.
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Ray
Intermouniiin
Buppert
Slogan origins and modern usage traced from clan cries
The word slogan comes from Gaelic slaugh hairm meaning cry of the host. In modern business a pithy sales message or policy statement is called a slogan.
Peiping's Ever-Changing Names Across History
Feiping China has been called successively Chi Yen Yu-chow Nanchung Yenshing Chung-fu Khanbalig Ta-ta Peiping-fu Pe jong and then Peiping.
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Feiping
China
Chi
Yen
Yu-chow
Ta-ta
Peiping-fu
Pe Jong
Peiping
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Thornton W. Burgess
Wes Alf
T O
New House
Sy Douglas Malloch
Twins
England
Amed
Viscountess Furness
Reginald Vanderbilt
V'scountess
Thelma Morgan
Gloria Morgan
Jerry Haya Morgan
United States
Buenos Aires
India
San Francisco
Great Britain
Knights Templars
France
Lous XI
McClure
Cy Jean Newton
America
Priscilla
John
Henry the Eighth
Jane Austen
Mottier
T. J. Delohery
Western Newspaper Union
Sally Sez
Swanencen
Horna
Orkney Islands
Fomona
Hoy
Scotland
Welk
Walvis
Ketchum, Builders’ Supply
Singapore
Man Tigers
Strait
Johore
Nonora
Mr. Owl
Owl
Intermountain
Salt Lake City
State of
Ohio
Namee
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