Hogwallow News Droll Local Tidbits From Gander Creek Road
A town miscellany reports Sile Kilden warning motorists about a mud hole on Gander Creek road but inviting business if stuck. A Deputy traces a suspicious traveler with a tall black contraption and a rubber ball. Other notes cover a cafe ladder wash stopping foot traffic, a protracted Hog Ford meeting, Slim Pickens shopping, Jefferson Potlocks seeking tunes, Poke Barley warming feet, and Raz Barlow planning a Christmas gift idea.
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Sile Kilden
Gander Creek
Price of Luck
A stage aside reveals a barter between a man and a friend as they discuss money and retrieving the mother in law from a station. The exchange tests loyalty and humor in a compact London print moment.
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John
Thrift Through Reusing Farm Waste Across Industries
Science drives thrift by turning farm waste into value. Cornstalks and straw yield paper tar gas and many products, with potential yearly income gains of about 1.5 billion dollars. Researchers note hundreds of materials from waste including substitutes for ivory and wool, and new uses for cane residue.
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United States
High Authority
O. R. Sweeney
Iowa State College
S. W. Straus
American Society For Thrift
Barnum on Advertising and the Printer’s Edge
Quotation from Fourth Estate recalling P. T. Barnum’s view that spending most wealth on advertising outperforms plain article content. He warns that a skilled printer who can pair simple type with broad audience reach is the true threat and seeks such a partner as a friend.
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P. T. Barnum
Fourth Estate
Grandma's Window and Melly on the Hill
A child Melly walks up a hill watched by Grandma at a upstairs window. The story recalls Melly's visits to Grandma Worthington at 4 Worthington Lane and the warm, caring bond they share.
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Melly
Grandma
Jack
Little Melly
Worthington Lane
Worthington
Mother
Daddy
SAWS By Viola Brothers Shore
Excerpt from Viola Brothers Shore column ends with wry aphorisms about explorers lovers and bachelors clubs. It riffs on relationships health and independence with humor and social commentary. The piece closes with a copyright notice.
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Viola Brothers
Something Rotten in the State of Denmark Origin
The phrase’s origin is traced to Shakespeare’s Hamlet from 1602. Marcellus and Horatio remark on strange events, with Marcellus declaring Something rotten in the State of Denmark. The line appears in Act I Scene V when the ghost appears and calls Hamlet aside.
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Denmark
Aven
Hamlet
Horatio
Marcellus
Why of Superstitions by Harving King
A column argues turning a housewife’s apron on a new moon connects to ancient moon worship. It traces apron symbolism from Egypt through Greece and Rome, notes secret society aprons as a possible survival, and cites Thistleton-Dyer on generational beliefs.
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Europe
Isis
Valley of
The
Nile
Greece
Egypt
Rome
Thistleton-Dyer
Why is a newspaper like a woman answers from readers
A Southern newspaper asked readers why a newspaper is like a woman and offered a one year subscription for the best answer. Replies include beliefs about truthfulness, thinning pages, bold type, readability, value of back numbers, fearlessness, influence, news reach, and personal ownership.
Gravity Law Question from a Curious Child
A teacher explains gravity to students as the law that holds us to Earth. A child asks how we could have stuck to the ground before such law existed.
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Dunk Botts
Depuy
Tickville
Hog Ford
Calf Ribs
Slim Pickens
Bounding Billows
Jefferson Potlocks
Raz Barlow
AES
Pace & Montgomery
South Side
Main St
Fastey
Grandma and
God
Bachelors’ Club
By Jean Newton
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Gulf
Quaker State
Supreme Service
L. LaRoe & Company
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