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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1906
Page
13
Benny sits on a pier in a blue bay with an unbaited fish line as a curious fish samples worm bait and warns the hook. He dozes in the August sun, a blister forming on his nose, before a sudden wakeup interrupts the quiet scene.
Benny dreams of meeting a talking fish under his pier. The fish explains humans harm aquatic life, invites Benny to meet friends, and hosts a playful race with a lobster. Benny awakes, reflects on the dream, and resolves not to eat seafood after realizing aquatic beings feel pain.
A reflective verse voice defends natural hair color and texture, insisting the speaker's black skin is not bad. The speaker embraces strength in being black, noting shiny hair and personal honesty about their appearance and identity.
On Gracie's fifth birthday she enjoys party plans and a grand cake but then befriends a barefoot girl in a poor city district. Gracie helps locate the child’s mother, shares her coin to buy a doll, and later gets lost herself until a blue-coated policeman returns her to her relieved parents. The prankish day ends with Gracie recounting the adventure and her birthday triumph.
Father O’Hara installs a telephone in the parsonage and Pat, the handyman, answers with a loud shout. The priest mishears him and Pat mutters a curse. The tone shifts when Father O’Hara finally speaks clearly, saying I bear you perfectly now Patrick.
A biographical sketch of Ellas Howe born in Spencer Massachusetts in 1819. He worked in mills and farms before learning cotton machinery in Lowell and pursuing machine shop training at Harvard. His restless study led him toward the sewing machine idea while at a Cambridge nautical instrument factory.
A playful line of old time conundrums about aging bread, crusts, and quick puns on bath costumes and working hens. The text reads as a collage of jokes and garbled phrases with a fictional rhythm.
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