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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1911
Page
10
A fragmented reminiscence describes a boy listening to his father recount his youth in a rural town. The memory centers on poverty, family labor, and a small boy’s view of hardship while a talking goat figures in the tale.
The fragment narrates a talking trunk that misexpresses itself and travels from San Francisco to Chicago, causing trouble until a harbor master advises it must be closed. A man reunites with his trunk after a long run of misadventures, ending in quiet fear of losing his collars and trust in the device.
Dora and Sara rescue a talking magic doll that guides them when a witch lures them into a forest. The doll warns them, leads them to hide inside a bark hoop, and the children escape back to their home after enduring pursuit and obstacles.
A garbled OCR passage presents two odd riddles about a horse and a wheel, asking why one refuses to move while the other won’t stop. It mentions a misread name “Giskooty Laok the Rackweund” and invites deciphering the cryptic wording as a playful historic puzzle.
Pupils from Pineville Public School flood Miss Jackson with valentines after a day of cheerful gift exchange. Amid handmade cards and roses, the beloved teacher expresses warmth as students present tokens from classmates and teachers alike, brightening her afternoon at the gate.
A fragmented reminiscence traces Abraham Lincoln’s rise from a poverty stricken youth to a future president. It describes how he learned to read and write with limited books, the influence of the Bible and Bunyan on his self education, and his determination to repay a neighbor after his cherished Washington Life was soaked in rain.
A cluttered OCR page lists poems and word games including Charade items about Edna Grey, a numbered set of puzzles such as No 1208 Concealed Ward Square and No 1210 Fiddle with clues about musical and literary terms, plus scattered Acrostles and word lists from Cleveland and Lancaster.
Fragmentary OCR from a puzzle page describes Two puzzles No 1212 and 1214 with letter fitting tasks and hidden words. It mentions primate avrestio style clues, a large body of water, a phrase about taste and smell and a riddle about a football or sports term. It references Zigeng puzzle and instructions about rearranging upper and lower case letters.
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