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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1908
Page
22
A nursery tale describes Chubby ignoring his mother to skate on a thin river ice. The ice breaks, he nearly drowns, returns home soaked and chastened, and vows not to disobey again. A second riddle hints at a three word phrase meaning something bright that only comes at night, with the answer to appear next week.
A compact reading features an acrostic titled Mother An Acrostic praising motherhood with Arthurian tone, followed by short quotations by Pauline Johnson and Horatio Bonar. It emphasizes truthfulness and devotion, urging respect and honesty as guiding values for children.
A Baltimore Sun poem envisions a personal sanctuary called the House of Hope. It contrasts royal pomp with a nest of love built by two hearts, resting beyond glory and strife, where a lass awaits the beloved through lanes of golden gates.
A Minnesota grocer settles a bean counting guess by weighing beans to a bushel and showing it takes about 119000 beans. He then weighs silver to dollar bills, placing 22 bills against one silver dollar to balance.
A Christian Age essay recounts a renowned horse trainer who tamed a temperamental horse by first gaining inner composure. It argues self control is the key to mastery, noting anger in others can only master us if we let it, and urges practice of inner discipline to achieve strength and success.
A small boy pretending to be a skey answers a Bible lesson question. After a long lesson the class asks what Peter did to show penitence. A student volunteers and says he crowed three times.
A teacher recounts Joseph and his brothers and asks why Joseph cautioned them not to quarrel on the way. The boy quips they had no tail-board to the cart, turning the tale into a lightheaded pun.
A Philadelphia Record reminiscence about keeping guineas on a farm. The birds’ dainty heads and loud “Buckwheat” cries mark them as alert sentinels and wary companions. A caretaker recalls hatching one under a hen, taming efforts, and a lone pullet lost to danger as a Guinea hen adapts to the flock.
The 1830 poem Mary Had a Little Lamb is claimed by two authors Mrs Sarah Josepha Hale and John Roulstone. Hale, editor of The Lady's Magazine, denied the claim before her death in 1879. Roulstone’s alleged twelve lines and Mary E Tyler’s testimony fuel debate, with memory doubts and possible later resemblances.
The text explains curious properties of numbers such as 9 and 37. It notes that multiplying 9 by any number under 20 except 11 yields products whose digits sum to 9, with examples like 8×2 equals 18 and 8 plus 1 equals 9. It also describes that multiplying 37 by multiples of 3 up to 27 yields identical digits in each product, such as 3×37 equals 111 and 27×37 equals 999.
A cottage dwelling cricket in a mountain wood inspires nightly concerts in a large voice from a tiny performer. The little cricket has debuted on a concert stage without formal training and without reading music. Its fame grows as it entertains, though its nightly singing may keep villagers awake. The tale nods to Dickens and the well known Cricket on the Hearth.
A nautical recount from Forest and Stream describes a dramatic whale hunt. The crew uses explosive harpoons and bomb lances to subdue a massive pig fellow, with multiple boats and lines as they pursue and finally claim the prize. The captain praises the crew and rewards the mate for a daring capture.
A poetic scene portrays the sun as King Sol gazing over the land with a flaming eye and declaring the earth could not move without him. The verse presents a vain sky ruler asserting sole power over world motion.
A set of playful comparisons ponders why bread resembles the sun and cannons resemble cigar holders. The verses hinge on wordplay about rising and setting, hunting for tunes, laborers with hands, and jewels found during searches.
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