Sleepy Cat Fourth of July Feud in Gunlock Rodeo
In Sleepy Cat a Fourth of July celebration spirals into conflict as Jerry Van Tambel watches a dangerous cigarette trick turn ugly during a Circle Dot rodeo challenge. Texan Bill Denison, facing McCrossen’s tricks, stuns the crowd with a bold display and a dramatic bracelet toss, revealing a hidden rivalry and a cautionary showdown under Dr. Carpy’s watchful eye.
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Sleepy Cat
Southwest
Jane van Tambel
Gus van Tambel
Gunlock Ranch
Doctor Carpy
Crusty
Henry Sandy
Circle Dot Ranch
Dave McCrossen
Gunlock
Bill Denison
McCrossen
Harry Boland
Denison
Stranger
Boland
Bill Pardalee
John
Pardalee
Selwood
Sandy
Lefever
Circle Dot
Carpy
Jane
Texas
Jake Spotts
Spotts
Barney Redstock
Rebstock
Redstock
Dr. Carpy
Carey
the Wrangler
Harry Tenison
Medicine Bend
Tenison
Madison Square Garden
Text from a Western tale interview about a cigarette act
The Texan confirms seeing a fire cigarette act in New York Madison Square Garden two years ago and notes the rider who introduced it there. The wrangler recalls details from winter two years past under artificial light with white paper. The exchange hints at Elliot Tenison and Sandy discussing the rider’s skill and false impressions.
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Wrangler
New York
Tenison
Sandy
Madison Square Garden
Vintage Citrus Cooler Recipe for Summer Servings
A simple fruit punch recipe serves 20. Pour two quarts of boiling water over one glass currant jelly and one cup sugar, then cool. Stir in juice from six lemons and two oranges, add two more thinly sliced oranges, and a quart of cold water. Add ice and mint sprigs in each glass.
Grape Jelly Clove Cinnamon Tea Simmered Syrup
A vintage recipe item instructs melting one glass grape jelly with four and a fraction cups boiling water. It adds eight whole cloves and a crushed cinnamon stick in a tied bag, simmering fifteen minutes, then flavors with lemon juice and serves hot or iced.
Currant Jelly Adds Sweet Twist to College Teas
Currant jelly is dissolved in boiling water in equal parts, cooled, and poured into lemonade prepared in the usual way. The pink lemonade is then served as a popular beverage at college teas and dances.
Tea mix with lemon and jelly twist
A quart of chilled strong tea is sweetened with a jar of beet or currant jelly blended to a liquid and finished with one tablespoon of lemon juice. Stir, then pour over ice to serve.
Minted lemon milk beverage instructions
Beat 1 glass of grape jelly to a liquid add 1 tablespoon lemon juice and blend well. Slowly beat fruit mixture into 1 quart whole milk. If desired a few drops of mint extract may be added before serving. Serve with an ice cube in each glass.
Minted Pineapple Lemon Cooler Formula
Dissolve broken grape or currant jelly in boiling water then cool. Stir in lemon juice pineapple juice and mint flavoring with cold water. Serve over crushed ice with mint garnish dipped in sugar for a refreshing drink.
Solomon Said It First
Comic remark notes that today repeats yesterday with different people as the paper carries familiar events in new names. The line playfully comments on news sameness across eras.
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Solomon
Security Board May Divide Texas Into Districts
The Federal social security board plans dividing Texas into two or three unemployment insurance districts as part of the national program. About 100 districts nationwide would have headquarters in principal cities with San Antonio as the current regional office for Texas, Louisiana and New Mexico. Dallas and Houston likely favored if only two districts are created. Final plans are expected within a month or two ahead of a January 1 start for the insurance program.
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Washington
Texas
Federal Social Security Board
United States
Louisiana
New Mexico
San Antonio
Dallas
Houston
Northern Brazil cotton crop forecast at 812000 bales
The first official forecast for Northern Brazil in 1936 puts harvest at 812000 bales of 478 pounds each, down 3 percent from 839000 bales in 1935. Previous years show 1934 at 722000 and 1933 at 447000. total 1936-37 not yet estimable as Southern Brazil delays planting until September and harvests begin in March 1937. Northern Brazil contributed about 49 percent of Brazil's annual 1933-36 cotton crop average of 1,363,000 bales.
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Washington
Brazil
Emil Sauer
Rio de Janeiro
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Brazil Cotton Output Rises Sharply in 1935-36
Cotton production in Brazil shows a marked upward trend with the 1935-36 crop totaling 1,743,000 bales, up from 1,322,000 bales in 1934-35 and 1,015,000 bales in 1933-34, compared with a five year average of 505,000 bales through 1932-33.
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Brazil
Ninety-Two Years of Abstinence Ended by Toast
Chicago veteran Rollin B Organ marked his ninety second birthday by ending a 92 year streak of total abstinence with a champagne toast. The Civil War veteran’s long abstinence spanned most of his life, highlighting his remarkable personal milestone on the occasion.
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Chicago
Ill
Rollin B. Organ
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