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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1908
Page
16
A short tale of Chubby warned by his mother not to skate on thin ice. He falls through as the ice cracks, barely reaches shore, and returns home shivering. The moral ends with punishment and a vow never to disobey.
Perry Adams, a 16 year old in poverty, risks his life to rescue a buggy rider from a deadly railroad cut during a blizzard. Doctor Downs, whom he saves, later praises his courage and Perry is named a Carnegie hero with a grant of 2000 dollars for college plus 500 to the fund.
The article describes lavish Mexican funerals with a decorated tramcar hearse and porters carrying the coffin to the funeral tramcar, followed by mourners in formal dress. Poor burials use a simple coffin carried by a peon to a distant cemetery, with minimal costs and the carrier paid about 20 cents.
Poem fragment recounts King Sol the sky ruler boasting that the earth could not move without his power and vanity. A beast is referenced as part of the verse, highlighting mythic personifications. The piece reads as a playful, archaic verse on celestial supremacy.
Puzzle lines hint letters by containment within certain words. Each clue states a letter that appears in one word but not in another, forming a sequence that resolves the hidden message. The text includes several inconsistencies and garbled phrases, suggesting transcription errors in the final line.
Blinkie and Chubby adore their Christmas toys in a cozy playroom. Chubby names a black horse Pigwigs as his favorite, but soon shifts attention to other toys, provoking Pigwigs to react by biting a headless lion and causing a dawn apology from the lion.
A toy drama unfolds in Blinkie and Chubby’s playroom as Pigwigs the horsey endures jealousy and mischief. Chubby angrily fights with toys, but Pigwigs defends his place, earning forgiveness and a final joyful ride to Banbury Cross with Chubby declaring him his best friend. Pearlie and Blinkie observe, while Ned’s interest in a real horsehalves fades.
A humorous verse presents wordplay riddles comparing kisses to greenbacks and trees to departing friends. It weaves puns on leaving, setters, and mended clothes with playful logic.
A playful verse about a gray tabby cat at home and a curious dog who slips inside through an open door. The cat remains unbothered while the dog’s bold intrusion ends with a reminder that the door can be opened by a dog’s nose rather than ears.
The article argues alcohol is a poison not a food and warns that regular use leads to chronic alcoholism. It states beer has less alcohol than wine and spirits, but any frequent consumption harms health. It links alcohol to insanity, epilepsy, paralysis, liver kidney stomach diseases, dropsy and tuberculosis, and claims parental drinking harms children.
(1) Question asks which English ruler most needed a horse. (2) Riddle links Wagner to an opera title imagined for airship travel. (3) A celebrated English duke’s name preceded the creation of a meeting-house on a hill. (4) Inquisitive queen claimed greater fear of John Knox’s prayers than England’s armies.
The riddle describes a concept that bears and devours much across the world, round and deep, beyond reach of horses. It claims to appear in places you have not been and will not be, yet you would be seen there by it.
A climber at the peak begins a long trek and crosses his own path several times. The riddle asks which of the three houses he started from, tracking twists and repeats to deduce the origin. The puzzle hinges on tracing the route and intersections.
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