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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1908
Page
25
Fred Smith resists school yet dreams of astronomy after a moon viewing with a street telescope. A magical night with an old astronomer prompts him to pledge self improvement and study, aiming to become a real astronomer rather than a wandering troublemaker.
A collection of humorous questions and quips about beggars, fortunes, monarchy, form and ceremony, train times, camels, ships, and postoffice clerks. Several lines hinge on wordplay and punny comparisons, with a final joke about coal cost and ashes.
A Stockholm widow's home tale shows Jenny Lind rising from a shy poor girl who sang to her cat to a celebrated artist. Discovered by Mlle Lundberg, refined by Croelius and Count Puke, she trained at public expense, studied in Paris, and, after a voice-rest recovery with Garcia, became a global star known for charity and kindness.
A Youth's Companion piece narrates Aunt Amelia performing wondrous kitchen feats. Apples become dumplings and milk turns to cottage cheese while pumpkins yield pies and currant rolls emerge from the glow of the stove. She jokes that the hardest task is keeping sailors fed at sea.
A playful and instructive geography exercise invites girls to write a city they studied, shuffle papers, and share one good fact about each city. If a player cannot name a fact, she tells a story about a historical place in her own city.
A playful verse contrasts a crab’s backward walk with a bird in the sky and a perpetual fly on the wall. The speaker laments a boy’s failure to match a tiny fly, inviting reflection on chance and nature.
A child recounts the wind as a talking presence in verse. The wind shifts from soothing to terrifying, knocking down a tree and finally calming after a bold command to Africa. The speaker asserts the wind heard the child and grew quiet by morning.
A doctor's instruction to a perplexed mother leads to a plan for the infant to drink a daily cow's milk dose. The mother questions how the supply will be managed, showing concern for practicality while agreeing with the medical advice.
A six year old girl asks why the superintendent says Turn to the oatmeal service and why the minister ends a service with We will now stand and be just missed, reflecting a family's light church misunderstandings.
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