Mr Mocking Bird Faces Down a Great Food Swindle
Raymond Fuller Ayres tells of Mr Whistler a.k.a. Mr Mocking Bird who schemes to cheat Mr Rooster in a drought famine. Whistler imitates voices to steal corn oats and rice from the store while others pay. After drought ends he is exposed, jailed, and forced to repay debts, losing his own voice to a mocking imitation. The tale ends with a cautionary moral about deception and hunger.
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Mr. Rooster
Man
Mr. Robster
Rooster
Hawk
Mr. Crow
Judge Owl
Mrs. Hen
Seldam
Mr. Whistler
Mr. Sparrow
Rubin
Hen
Mr. Robin
Mr. Rice Bird
Rice Bird
Sai
Mr. Crows
Crow
Mrr
Whistler
Mocking Bird
Lessons From Fables From A Childs View
A teacher praises humor as essential in vocation and uses fables read to grammar grades to teach morals. A class recounts the stag and antlers lesson and the wolf and lamb tale, illustrating cautions about boasting, thinking before acting, and valuing practical virtue over beauty.
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Europe
At- Tanta
Y M C A Annual Camp Set for July at Demorest Georgia
Members of the Junior department of the Young Men's Christian Association announce the annual camp outing at Demorest Georgia from July 3 to July 16. The camp operates with freedom under limited safety rules, featuring daily schedules of flag rituals, meals, boating, swimming, Bible study, campfires, and prayers. Notable attendees listed include Howard R.H. Parker John F. Blodgett Jr Wendell M. Gray and several others.
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Young Men's Christian Association
Demorest
Howard RH. Parker
John IF. Blodgett, Jr
Wendell M. Gray
Wilmott Ferguson
Howard Fisher
Floyd McRae
Kenneth McRee
J. L. Wright
Charles Jones
George Volberg
Charles S. Broward
Rucker McCarty
Lewis Parker
Thornton Fincher
Earle@. Watson
Ham Edison
Fred Ogletree
Robert Haverty
Paul Coleman
George Leake
Clinton Amorous
Manual Training Exhibit at Boys' High School Impresses
The recent manual training exhibit at Atlanta’s Boys' High School drew large crowds of students and adults. Teachers and director Mr Utterbach received praise for fostering practical skills, with girls' sewing and boys' carpentry and framing on display. The event showcased how manual training balances physical and mental work, preparing students to value labor and craft alongside academics.
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Atlanta
Utterbach
Inflammable River Craft Focus of New Orleans Fire
New Orleans Picayune notes the Sunrise blaze underscores dangers of wooden river steamers. It argues for less inflammable materials, better life boats, and possible use of light steel hulls or steel upper works to reduce risk while keeping river service affordable and efficient.
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New Orleans
City of
Pittsburg
Ufe
BILL CROW HERO BIRD IN BATTLE AND DEATH
A long feature tells of Bill Crow a crow raised by Dick and Debby in Birdville. Bill protects Debby fends off a meat hawk and eagle, battles the robber eagle, is slain, and buried with a marker reading HERE LYS BILL THE HEROE. He and Dick share a deep bond with birds and the town.
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Bly
Billy
Deborah
Debby
Biily
Bily
Billy Crow
Bird Town
Billy the Crow
Birdtown
Birdvilla
Gill Crow
Chip Jarr
Birdville
Rock Cabin Cove
Uncle Bam
Uncle Sam
Bill
Sam
Attie Debby
King Bird
Phoebe
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Constitution
Junior An
MR. Mocking Bird
Raymond Fuller Ayres
Powder Springs
Herbert Traynham
Mrs. W. L. Traynham
Conda William Moore Pearson
Mrs
Frank Pearson
Bwapap
StaUate Laurang
Apd Ee
Mississippi
Washington
Pentry
Lee Green
Edgewood
William Davis
Charles Grist
State Street
Frank Robinson
Ray Benjamin
Formwalt
Monroe Norman
George Wells
West End
Horace Paul
State
Edwin Staufficher
Boulevard
Fair Street Boys
Plano Fund
Crew Street
Fair Street
Bill Crow
Hero Bird
Dan Beard
New York Academy of Science, Linnean Society
Ornithological Union
Zoological
Payne
Madison Square Garden
Emer
Lys
New York Telegram
Morris
The
Isle
Empress Josephine
New York World
St. Pierre
Martinique
Trola
Fort de France
Napoleon III
Josephine
St. Pierre Fa
Rocka
Mont Pelee
Ruth Hale
BH. J. Hale
Winder, Ga
Paote
Condon
Margery M. Wiggling
Mrs. H. Frea ‘Wiggins
Brunswick
Edward Traynham
Mr. and Aire
Ww. L. Trayn
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