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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1907
Page
19
A child named Annie Lee laments denied treats and hard study ahead as winter blocks play. Helena Davis presents a verse on longing for warmth and summer days. A puzzled Pat sends coal thieving notes about railroad workers supplying coal in clever ruses.
Alf Charley and Stella venture into the Big Woods five miles from home on a March Saturday. Rain drives them to shelter under vines while they build a fire and eat a lunch of milk. As night approaches they fear the dark wilds and plan a cautious exploration with stone markers to find their way back to the shelter.
Three siblings Charley Alf and Stella trudge through a dark forest facing loneliness and fear. They persevere through rain and confusion and finally glimpse a distant town now marching toward the welcoming lights. They reach their parents after midnight sharing a warm bed and reflections on their adventure and the value of home.
A five year old on a train believes the upper berth is a top drawer. His mother checks on him at night and asks if he knows where he is. He replies that he is in the top drawer, showing a small child’s misperception during a journey.
Nearly everyone knew him as Smiling Tom a bright hopeful boy who works to support his frail mother after his father’s death. He buys supper for them with odd jobs like sorting potatoes at a grocer and seeks work with Old Jones the crank, urging that experience comes from trying not from waiting.
Tom, an obedient office boy, receives three five dollar envelopes from Mr. Jones the crank for service, level headedness, and his sweet smile. He proves himself by punctual, precise work and calming a sour client. Jones calls him the finest metal, a cool head, and hires him to handle key tasks as the week ends.
Katharine Parr the sixth wife of Henry VIII and first Protestant queen of England is profiled. The narrative traces her English birth in 1513, multiple marriages to widowers, vast holdings from Latimer and Parr lineages, her perilous court position, Henry VIII’s health and tyranny, a close escape from arrest for heresy, and her death at thirty six with a life marked by widowhood and devotion to Sir Thomas Seymour.
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