WACO, Texas (AP) – Mrs. Burgman Black, intent on a fine spring garden, purchased a sack of commercial fertilizer and stored in the garage. At the first opportunity she carefully mixed what she thought was the fertilizer with soil in her garden, did her planting, and then gave it all a good soaking. The next…
SIOUX FALLS, S.D., Oct. 9 (AP) — A little girl walked into the Sioux Falls post office to mail a package. M. T. Stark was on duty at the parcel post counter. “Would you please wrap this for me?” the little girl asked. Stark smiled and proceeded to wrap the package. Completing the job, he…
ASHLAND, O. (AP)-From inside lock trunk of a parked car the cries of “lemme out!” attract-a passerby who called police. Expecting to free a small, curious boy, the cops Monday night broke the lock to release a not-so-small and curious wife who said she had hidden there to check up her husband. Police Chief Harvey…
Day and night for more than 72 hours a beautiful black and white shepherd dog has kept vigil at a white post on the Pacific highway eight miles south of Salem near the Alder Springs club, Roy McIntire, who lives nearby, said Wednesday. Evidently waiting for her owner, she eats the meals McIntire feeds her…
ATLANTA, May 10-(P)-A little girl named Flowers went toddling among the flowers going sniff, sniff, sniff. And when Mary Beth Flowers came to the roses, she took a great, big sniff, just about the biggest sniff that could be sniffed. The little Miss Flowers, age 18 months, started crying and ran into the house. Her…
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Dec. 21 (AP) – The annual Christmas pageant given by the Fairbanks High School choir at the Ladd Air Force Base Hospital included a group of girls dressed in angel costumes. The girls were walking down the corridor when a setviceman patient was wheeled out of the operating room still feeling the effects…
LANDSKRONA, Sweden (AP) – Chain reaction: Alex Holmstrom, a Stockholm businessman, smacked his car into a tree here when a dog ran in front of it unexpectedly. He and his wife were knocked unconscious by the impact. A woman on a bicycle just passing by witnessed the crash, went into shock and hit the same…
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Ia., Dec. 4 -(AP) – Mrs. Marie Turnquist, about 65, is recuperating today from 60 hours imprisonment in a midget’s bathtub. Her hands were raw and blistered from her vain struggles to free herself, but she still could joke about her predicament. Her physician said she was in “surprisingly good condition.” Mrs. Turnquist…
Irene Dykstra had a big dream: become a published author. Alzheimers caught up with her before she could realize that dream, but she left behind a folder of newspaper clippings that inspired her story ideas. She was my children’s g-g grandmother, and I inherited her collection. I’m planning on sharing one clip a week in…
Author Christina Suzanne Nelson recommended this book to me, and I’m so glad she did! This book was packed with lots of good information, too much to cover in a blog post, but here are my three biggest takeaways: It’s not that stories don’t need structure, but that structure needs logic. To quote a classic,…