Average Length Of American Lives Surpasses Sixty
New York report shows average life expectancy over 60 for whites, with white men at 60.86 and white women at 60.40. Rate of increase cited as six months per year due to scientific momentum, based on Metropolitan Life Insurance data.
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New York
American Medical Association
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Salty wafers with cheese baked to puffed finish
Regipes lists 24 salted wafers and 24 cheese slices with 6 tablespoons butter and 1 tablespoon salad dressing. Mix dressing with butter and spread on wafers, top with cheese, arrange in a shallow pan, bake until puffed, then sprinkle paprika and serve fresh.
Beets with Butter Sauce Recipe
Wash beets and cook until tender. Remove skins and slice or dice. Melt butter, blend with cornstarch salt sugar water and vinegar then cook until thick and clear. Stir in beets and serve. If cooled warm in sauce briefly before serving.
Cookie Recipe For Oats Raisins And Dates
A vintage instruction lists ingredients including peanut butter butter sugar eggs oats raisins and dates with flour soda and milk. Cream fats then add dry ingredients and milk alternately. Drop spoonfuls on a greased sheet and bake in a slow oven about fifteen minutes yields about three dozen cookies.
Salmon Flake Batter Patties with Corn and Cucumber Pickle
Flake salmon and add corn ketchup flour eggs and salt in order. Drop by heaping tablespoons in hot fat and fry until golden brown on both sides. Garnish with slices of fresh cucumber pickle and serve hot.
Mobs Hurl Insults and Threats in Heated Exchange
A heated exchange erupts as insults fly between two individuals with threats overheard. The confrontation features callers trading slurs and a violent line about cutting the throat, highlighting intense personal animosity and public disorder.
Cooking cauliflower in milk and water prevents odor
A kitchen tip notes that simmering cauliflower in a mixture of half milk and half water reduces the typical sulfur smell during cooking and helps the florets retain a bright white color described as college cabbage white.
Tugwell Foresees Civilization Peril From Unattended Soil
Albany N Y. Rexford G Tugwell Under secretary of Agriculture warns that without immediate and sustained action to preserve trees grass and water across the Midwest the region could become a trackless desert by 2235 He urges continued support for federal soil erosion and rural resettlement programs and cites a British explorer tale to illustrate the danger He stresses saving the land and people as a shared nonpartisan goal and pledges commitment to push the program through
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Albany
N. Y
Midle West
Rexford G. Tugwell
Tugwell
New York State
Great American Desert
St. Louis
Mississippi River
Great Desert
Mississippi
Missouri
The Loan Shark Preys on Aunt Mandy
Homer Price recounts a Tyler Journal letter about an old woman who borrowed $8 on a sewing machine from a loan shark and paid $1 monthly as intrust. The man claims the debt remains and threatens seizure, while a letter offering settlement went unanswered.
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Mandy
Aunt Mandy
Homer Price
Tyler Journel
Halifax Sees New Sea Monster Near Shore
Halifax residents report sighting a colossal sea monster described as seventy feet long with a head as large as a car, two stovepipe-like bulges, huge teeth, and a foamy wake, about 300 yards from shore, fueling tourist trade chatter.
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Halifax
N. S
Potato Dimples Dialogue Between Betty and Mother
Betty claims she cleans the potatoes but her mother notices missing peelings. Betty insists she removes all but the dimples, revealing a playful domestic moment.
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Betty
Allred vetoes political ban for state employees
Governor James V. Allred vetoed a bill that would bar state workers from soliciting votes for any candidate, calling the broader restriction an unreasonable deprivation of rights. The measure, by Rep. Ross Hardin, aimed to curb use of state cars in campaigns. A prior veto was by Mrs Miriam A Ferguson.
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Austin
James V. Allred
Ross Hardin
Prairie Hill
Texas
Miriam A. Ferguson
Oddities and definitions in a Minnesota humor column
A collection of humorous phrases and odd definitions touching topics from gypsy moths to octogenarians. The piece claims Minnesota has twice as many divorces as marriages and jokingly assigns a ten dollar divorce rate, noting tongue in cheek observations about honesty and clothing items.
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Minnesota
Boy finishes six grades in four and half months
Peter Mon civais, 17, an orphan from near El Paso, Texas, completed six grades in four and a half months in Johnstown Missouri. Superintendent N D Vogelgesang sees potential for high school in a year and half. Peter had left school at 9, was promoted rapidly, and scored highest in his final exam among four graduates. He was kidnapped in childhood and later found his brother by radio inquiry, living with Tom Callahan in Johns town Bates County.
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Johnstown
Peter Moncivais
N. D. Vogelgesand
Peter
el Paso
Tex
Tom Callahan
Bates County
Broke Man Sells Stamps For Breakfast In Canton
A well dressed young man offered Addis K. Barthelmeh nine three cent stamps for a quarter and claimed a $100 check in his pocket could not be cashed. He said he was hungry and completed the sale before leaving Canton. Do your buying in Whitewright.
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Canton
Ohio
Addis
Ambitious claim sparks rivalry in dialogue
A boast about future success clashes with a sharp retort. Two speakers debate ambition and space at the top, revealing tension and humor in a brief exchange.
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