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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1908
Page
27
A remembered child of a southern plantation recalls Mingo, an old African enslaved worker who tended hives under a honeysuckle trellis. His bee gums and clever methods enthrall white and Black children, using mint to scent new hives and a brass kettle to signal swarms. The piece ponders whether such bee mastery came from ancestral tradition or intuitive practice.
A bedtime dream carries Dorothy from a grate to a ruby lit palace. The Fire Queen introduces the Prince and thirteen musicians. Dorothy dances and returns home before dawn, recounting the magical visit to her mother.
A dramatic wartime tale recounts a mother and infant saved by a carrier pigeon delivering life saving medicine. The story traces the journey across danger filled routes and the bird’s role in rescue.
A San Francisco family used a carrier pigeon to summon medicine for a diphtheria scare. Mrs Marsh tied a vial to a pigeon at the cliffhouse five miles away and the bird reached Mr Marsh in ten minutes, allowing the doctor to treat the child within twenty minutes.
Betty Botta buys butter and debates bitter versus better butter. She discovers a bit of butter makes her batter better and decides to choose the better butter for her batter. The quick decision improves the taste as she practice says the tongue twister.
The text lists state nicknames such as Panhandle State for West Virginia and Buckeye State for Ohio, interspersed with old lighthearted jokes about policemen, chairs and animals. It reads like a miscellaneous humor page with trivia and puns rather than a single news item.
A Philadelphia Record excerpt tells of six blind men who touch an elephant to guess its nature. Each assigns a different familiar shape, from wall to spear to rope, revealing how partial view misleads understanding.
A fragmentary clipping presents two humorous pieces. The first features a childlike chant about sunflowers and a mother's imagery, while the second mocks human weather complaints through a talking sun figure and playful rhymes.
A hunting party in the Adirondacks captured a cub bear for a four year old boy. The cub grew quickly and rough play nearly killed the child when the bear hugged him during a yard romp. The hired man intervened, saving the boy from a fatal embrace.
A tale about Queen Emma comforting a longtime royal servant who broke a Sevres cup. She urged him to mend it and present it at tea. At tea she smashed the repaired cup to force dismissal, while the king found the scene amusement and never learned the true tale.
The article explains how the Celsius scale divides the freezing to boiling range into 100 degrees while Fahrenheit uses 180. It notes a 9 to 5 degree relationship and shows converting 10 degrees Celsius to Fahrenheit as 50 degrees by multiplying by 9 and dividing by 5, then adding 32.
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