Phantom Rider Haunts a Kentucky Country Home Visit
Henry Carroll guests at a Kentucky mansion where Aunt Dinah’s ghost tale lingers. A midnight gallop on the frozen turnpike spooks him and Martha as a moonlit chase culminates in a bold claim of never returning home.
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Henry Carroll
Kentucky
Carroll
Mr. Rankin
Martha
Dinah
Marthe Rankin
Ghost
Miss @fastha
Mars Rob
de Crick
Chile
Mars Walker
Mary Rogers
Carrol
Aunt Dinah
Walter S. Hiatt
New York Times
Artists And Their Models In Portrait Truths
A column on the link between beauty of face and form in portraiture notes that ideal faces rarely combine with ideal figures. Painters often assemble features from multiple models and rely on artistic interpretation to convey fleeting expression.
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Church
Ringing Roll of Dixie Rekindles Civil War Valor
A poem tribute by Frank L. Stanton features veterans hearing the ringin roll of Dixie in memories of battle. Images of gray uniforms, Jackson and Lee, battlefield echoes, and fields of grain honor fallen heroes as phantom soldiers rally one final time before eternal rest.
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Dixie
Jackson
Lee
Frank L. Stanton
Atlanta Constitution
Rhode Island Governor Endorses Woman Suffrage Belief
Gov Garvin of Rhode Island declares support for woman suffrage in a speech to the Rhode Island Woman Suffrage Association. He predicts adoption in Rhode Island and other New England states, noting success in other states and that it will prevail nationwide.
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Garvin
Rhode Island
Rhode Island Woman Suffrage Association
New England
What a Boy Can Be And Do In A World Of Light
A poem and science ideas blend in a jotted page note for youth. It urges boys to seek truth through kind words and deeds and exalted aims while offering a salt water egg experiment as a playful learning activity.
The Glass Diving Bell And A Four Footed Mail Carrier
Two curious items from a Kansas town feature a physics demonstration using a glass cover to trap sugar under water and a Newfoundland dog trained as a mail carrier. The canine carries sacks up to forty eight pounds from the platform to the post office, proving remarkable strength.
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Kansas
Festival of the Dolls in Japan May Blossoms Peach Flowers
The Festival of the Dolls marks a May celebration aligned with peach blossoms. Japanese girls and women dress in holiday attire while mothers decorate rooms with sakura boughs and display many decorative rolls for daughters. A banquet is prepared for the mothers and served after the rolls are enjoyed.
To Make a Square Kite
Instructions describe constructing a square kite with split bamboo frame and Scotch cambric cover. The frame is about one half longer than wide, bent backward at top and bottom to bulge outward, held by twine from corners above and below, with two tails at the lower corners.
Two Curious Tricks To Light A Candle From Smoke
A candle lit without touching the wick by burning until a long snuff and then blowing out. A bright wreath of white smoke curls from the hot wick and a flame touched to the smoke works even from two or more feet away.
The Dog and Adjective Game Described
A simple classroom word game uses a running sentence about a dog where players replace adjectives starting with A within ten counts. Two rows face each other, the first player begins with active, the opposite must swap to an A adjective like amiable or drop out.
Riddles and Jokes From a Home Page Teaser
A jumble of child friendly quips on ships lies and lemons. The jokes include puns about Adam and Eve leaving Eden pairing with dice, a paper of tobacco as the world’s largest circulation, and a self focused solo.
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Garden of Eden
How to Pronounce it Backache Spelling Tricks
A friend learns to pronounce the phrase backache by spelling it out in three syllables. The text notes that people often mispronounce it as Hindustani or something exotic, but the word is simply backache.
Puzzle Picture Making Saltpeter From Air
Professor Muthmann of the Polytechnical Academy in Munich demonstrates that passing high electric currents through moist air from one platinum point to another forms nitric acid which can be gathered to produce saltpeter at less than a quarter of its present cost.
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Muthmann
Polytechnical Academy
Munich
Monarch Butterfly Life Cycle and Migration
The article describes the monarch butterfly from caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly. It notes its milkweed host, orange and black coloring with white wing dots, brush footed legs, migratory behavior, and the dramatic autumn gatherings as hundreds travel south.
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Princeton
Aves
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