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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1898
Page
3
A poem recounts two nearly identical boys and a shared fate as the speaker faces misattribution. The speaker, blamed for a fellow pupil's truancy and misdeeds, endures birching and a lost tooth, raising questions of identity and punishment.
Two kittens Jet and Pearl, bright and loving, sneak into the drawing room at night to explore a painted pink mouse on a Satsuma vase. They mistake it for live prey, pursue it toward a china dog guard, trigger a loud clatter, and flee to safety as the housemaid finds them.
A fragment describes a Manitoba tribe living on maple sugar from silver maple and box elder. It mentions birch bark containers, boiling venison and rabbits in sap, and pine sugar as a winter staple for over four weeks. The tone mimics a quirky kitten narration while noting dubious reliability of the account.
Meteors or shooting stars are fragments of stone drawn to earth by space travel. Their high speed causes fire in the atmosphere and sometimes a thunderous explosion with a light trail. A bright meteor lit southern England on February 11 1850, resemble daylight. Such events occur frequently and are widely seen.
A children’s verse warns fishes to beware hooks and anglers. It describes naughty boys and girls trying to catch fish and urges young fish to shun the false lure beneath blue wings. The poem ends with a pretty speckled trout image.
A man sought refuge in a tree on marsh floodwaters near Sittingbourne. Rats swam toward the tree and attacked. he used a nailed boot to beat them back until they fled. He later resumed homeward, then, to feed his children, rolled among apples on his spiky hedgehog body to carry dinner home.
Mr Hedgehog searches the woodland for food after a failed hunt and, after a long trek, spots apples on the ground. He calls out in relief at the discovery and noses into a chance meal for his hungry household.
A stamp collector’s goat devoured stamps valued at about 50 dollars before the owner noticed. The owner had placed stamps worth around 100 dollars on his desk. the goat’s appetite for a portion of the collection led to the loss.
A tree found in India and Africa yields fruit the size of a pigeon's egg. Inside the fruit are seeds pressed to extract oil, which is used to manufacture a high quality butter product.
In a completed but unpublished tale, Frank Pollock details how Marblehead Investment’s treasurer Millner hid $750,000 in cash, died by his own hand, and how detective work by Charlie Macon and narrator traced a conspiracy to Mr Goebel Ashlie. The final climax sees Pulkingham fall to his death in a city hotel, his disguise revealed, and the cash found posthumously.
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