Pigwigs the Toy Horse Reclaims Chubby’s Affection
Blinkie and Chubby share a playroom filled with toys after Christmas. Chubby’s prized Pigwigs, a graceful toy horse, faces neglect as a new drum and candy cane capture his attention. A mischief by Pigwigs provokes Chubby to threaten and break objects, but Blinkie suggests mercy. After Pigwigs acts out, Chubby forgives him and resumes riding, declaring Pigwigs his best friend.
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Blinkie
Chubby
Santa Claus
Pigwigs
Chub
Ned
Pearlie
Mamma
Banbury Cross
History Conundrums and Riddles for Readers
Four questions pose historical curiosities about a ruler needing a horse an opera title for an airship rider a Duke’s name linked to a hilltop meeting place and a Queen feared Knox. Riddles follow about something that bears devours reaches pole to pole and is seen in places you cannot be with a limit on what you host.
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John Knox
England
Solomon's Riches Questioned By a Boy
A boy asks why Solomon would be truly rich if he slept with his fathers and had not a bed to himself. The line wryly challenges toil or grandeur from a biblical tale in a local voice.
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Solomon
Dickey
Children’s Holiday Games and Lincoln Birthday party hints
Philadelphia Record describes Blind Man’s Buff style games with a Jingler and bell, plus variations with mock pig in ring and spectator amusement. It then offers a pencil pickup party trick and Lincoln’s Birthday party ideas asking guests to dress in 1860 styles with simple, period-appropriate decor and dining.
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Philadelphia
Jingler
England
Lincoln
Labyrinth Puzzle and Valentine's Day Party Sketch Surfaces
A strange labyrinth puzzle asks which of three houses a man atop a peak started from, with a crooked path marked by black enien. The text shifts to two party descriptions including a land of hosts serving coffee and a Valentine children’s party with heart shaped invitations, candy hearts, grand march and pink desserts.
Child Prodigies of Music Across History
The article surveys famed composers from childhood including Samuel Wesley, Franz Schubert, Handel, Vieuxtemps and Mozart. It notes Wesley at eight hearing a march he wrote, Schubert at several young ages, and Mozart composing at five, reflecting on precocious talent through the ages.
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Sir Edward Elgar
Queen's Hall
Sir Edward
Samuel Wesley
Franz Schubert
Handel
Vieuxtemps
Charles Halle
Liszt
Chopin
Rubinstein
Halle
Joachim
Alcohol: a poison and social danger in early guidance
A public health note warns that alcohol is a poison not a food. It asserts that regular use leads to chronic alcoholism and that beer is less intoxicating per cent but still harmful. It links alcohol to insanity, epilepsy, paralysis, liver and kidney disease, dropsy, tuberculosis, and harm to offspring.
Old Lady Slim and Old Man Fat Depart Quietly
A cryptic verse notes an elderly pair leaving home in matching bonnets and hats and disappearing from the neighborhood, with no neighbors seeing them again. The fragment hints at a missing persons tone without additional details or dates.
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Slim
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Maud Walker
Shayvery
Conundrums
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