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Newspaper
Fayette Reporter
Location
Fayette, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 29, 1912
Page
11
A New York designer creates a light chair for invalids with front casters rear wheels and retractable handles to ease stair transfers. The page also lists recipes and home tips including beef canntlon, children's rusks, envelope sealing with egg white, cake-tin care, orange pudding, omelet Savory, dumplings for soup, burns treatment with baking soda, and other kitchen notes.
A playful verse from Youth's Companion explores how changing letter positions transforms words and meanings. The piece toys with directions and adverbs, noting how small shifts yield new terms like table from bleat and master from stream, ending with a caution that clever wordplay pleases children but leaves hints thin.
A Philadelphia Ledger style page fragment describes Teakettle Party games where two players guess a hidden word by answers using a substituted term, plus tongue twisters and simple tricks such as a camphor snowball, a coin pickup illusion, and weather twinkle explanations. It also lists word puzzles and a riddle about five letter words with two meanings plus names and initials.
A. T. Yeoumans, holder of Britain's two mile heel and toe record, challenges Canadian walker George Goulding for any distance from one to five miles for 1000 dollars. Goulding, who has set three world records this year, may race in Canada under terms to suit both sides.
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