Homeward Hope Amid Desert Scandals
Dale and Brant face a strained return to family finances after Brant’s father dies. Dale unsettled by Mimi’s presence, vows patience as Brant plans to salvage the estate. The couple's California desert roots clash with eastern relocation while Mimi’s charm hides wary motives.
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Brant
Atranger
Ara
Horiey
Dale
Evana -Kendall
Mimi
Meade
Isverd
Jostess
Sue
Abe Martin Riff On Tests And Elections In Hazy Note
A fragmented quip shows Abe Martin musing on tests and self worth with sharp lines about dying or seeking office and a paper napkin recalling a best dinner ever cooked, reflecting wit and rural humor of the era.
Wonders of the Microscope Through a Glass Globe
Uncle Ray describes using a simple and compound microscope to view tiny pond life. He recalls Seneca on enlarging small letters, shares his own experiment with pond water and slipper animalcules, wheel animalcules, and notes amoebas coming tomorrow.
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Seneca
Toledo
II High School
Uncle Ray
Unsung heroines of New York's working girls
In New York on March 20 a writer celebrates working girls in the city who, despite poverty and lack of training, maintain dignity. Three women earning under 25 dollars weekly support themselves, rent out rooms, cook, and attend arts events while avoiding welfare. The piece notes many such women marry well and contrast with candid, flawed successful men, then moves to reflections on police behavior and urban life.
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Jamesick
Mimi
Dale
San Francisco
Honey
Hich
Lil de Voe
Phil
Dale Lad
Brant
Italy
Gale
New York
Society
Imarried
Senator Shaver on Capitol Hill A Storied Barber
Washington Daybook profiles John Sims a 41 year Capitol Hill barber who tended U S senators in the Senate wing. Now general supervisor he ensures proper grooming and assigns barbers while cups bearing defeated lawmakers’ names are kept as reminders.
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Narbeet
Washington, D. C
The
Universal Guurch of Holiness
United States
Washington
Ray
John Sims
Senate
Capital Building
Sims
Twenty-sixth and
Capitol Hill
John
United States Senate
Plummer
the Supreme Court
Congress
Pastor John Draws Noted Figures From Nation’s Capital
The article notes prominent visitors to his ministry at the little church near Twenty-sixth and TI streets. It mentions Vice President Marshall who reportedly heard John speak at the Universal Church of Holiness, and Charles G Dawes who attended with his wife, daughter, and friends.
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Little Church
Twenty-sixth
TI Streets
Marshall
John
Universal Church of Holiness
Charles G Dawes
Uncle Wiggily and the High Water
Uncle Wiggily helps Nurse Jane by taking a rice pudding to Aunt Lettie, the old goat lady, in a light humorous exchange. Myr. Longears accepts the task gladly, noting the giver finds pleasure in helping. The scene features Fuzzy Wuzzy and a cheerful, quaint tone typical of Howard R. Garis's Uncle Wiggily stories.
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Uncle Wiggily and
The
Howard R. Garis
Uncle Wigelly
Nurse Jane
Fuzzy Wuzzy
Myr
Longears
Aunt Lettie
Jane
Uncle Wiggily’s Kite Day Errand and Pudding Plan
Uncle Wiggily leaves with a pudding pan, chaffing with Nurse Jane over baking duties. He jokes about bringing back the empty pan for Mr Twisty-tail’s fever and heads to Aunt Lettie’s house, while Aunt Lettie frets about imagined disasters and sparrows using clothes posts as golf sticks.
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Tim
Jackie Bow Wow
Mr. Longeat
Nurse Jane
Uncle Wiggily
Twisty-tail
Uncle Wiggly
Jane
Lettie
Aunt Lettie
Uncle Wigerly
Wigelly
Wiggily
Waterloo Declared Most Prosperous City in February
The Standard Statistics Company reports Waterloo’s February bank debits at 26 percent above the 1920–24 average, the highest February volume in a decade and well ahead of the state average. The release notes a broad manufacturing uptick, with tractors threshing machines and related machinery expanding across the region, suggesting rising purchasing power.
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Waterloo
Standard Statistics Company
New York
Iowa
Fragmentary Note on Uncle Wiggily and Umbrella
A fragmented excerpt mentions Uncle Wiggily and a spring song with odd phrasing about an umbrella turning inside out. Terse, non-cohesive text lacks clear events or identifiers beyond the toy character and a whimsical image.
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Uncle Wiggily
Musterole Promises Quick Flu Relief For Families
An old fashioned mustard plaster substitute Musterole is promoted to guard against influenza, grippe, and pneumonia by rubbing on for warming relief. The ad claims rapid absorption and circulation boost, noting a milder form for babies and small children.
D D D Antiseptic Promises Fast Scalp Relief
An, advertorial-style claim for D D D antiseptic hair and scalp relief. It markets a solution to stopping dandruff and itching with nightly and morning use, noting a 60 cent bottle proves its merits or money back. Available at drug stores and D D D Laboratory in Batavia Illinois.
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Dmg
D. D. D. Laboratory
Batavia
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Pat Winteed
Alle Partners
Miss ‘Parker
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Cee
Sou Hanne
Miss Wones
NCS
Rok Seayee
Yao
Sar
Mugg
Gornnie
Shy United Pearare
SUGAR
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Washington Ees
Joan
Uiversal Church of Holiness
Barbher
Sarters
Carter
Mr. Longears
Uncle Wig- Rily
Wigaiy
Brooke
Mr. Long‘eats
Dee
Fear
Peters
Nora
Kistner
E. F. Kistner
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