Apple of His Eye Wins Miss Sanderson Prize
Tommy Atkins, a plain Maine schoolboy, enters a summer composition contest by attaching words to an apple. He creates a living apple with handwritten phrases around it, earns the teacher’s praise, and wins the prize for originality despite imperfect spelling.
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Tommy Atkins
Maine
Tommy
Johnny Dale
Harold Ball
Miss Sanderson
Ament
Iove
Sherself
Alway
Sput
The Chipmunk Awakens to Summer’s Sunlit Life
A vivid portrait of the chipmunk as a sun loving, cheerful hermit waking from winter. It forages along fence rails, climbs to ten feet, fills cheek pouches with nuts, and slips into its hidden earth den. Prospects darken when corn ripens and hunters threaten this small creature.
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Chicago News
Daisies and Clover Poem Recitation
Poem lines describe daisies and clover across the wide land. Children collect blooms and cherish the scent and bright field beauty as they linger in the breeze.
Two Little Aprons
A playful verse from Chicago News describes two aprons dancing in the sun free and high above the grass. They recount being shut in a dark jail by Dorothy and later freed, now swinging in an apple tree with merry, carefree motion.
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Chicago News
Buseover
Dorothy
Barnum Tricks Sailors With Apple Feint on Transatlantic Voyage
Editor recalls Barnum on a transatlantic steamer entertaining passengers especially children with sleight of hand. He balanced an apple on his head under a hat and pretended to eat it without touching the hat, then revealed the apple intact. A singer on board later refused to perform until Barnum intervened, noting the singer had won a prize at a Barnum baby show thirty years prior.
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Tommy
Chicago News
Barnum
Mr. Barnum
Gme
Mad dog thwarted by a boy wielding a wooden shoe
In a Scandinavian settlement in Wisconsin a mad dog bit three people and two cows. A boy carrying a milk pail kicked off his wooden shoe and flung it, knocking the dog to the ground before others arrived to finish the incident.
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West
Old Country
Wisconsin
A Dog That Hunts Ginseng
Roy W. Emig and Leon J. Cox hear of a dog that can smell ginseng a mile away and bark to signal a root. The Brown County owner digs or retrieves roots, sells them, and grows rich. local ginseng magnates seek to buy the dog for themselves.
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Columbus
Indianapolis
Roy W. Emig
Leon J. Cox
Brown County
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Buff
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Clover
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