Arbor Day Trees Bring Beauty to Hamilton Street
Persis Bradford and Lucila Brown inspire a neighborhood tree plan from Lisle Avenue to Hamilton Street. Mr. Simeon Ross orders three trees after a lighthearted chat, and Arbor Day sees a busy, cheering parade of families planting Norway and silver maples and elms along the streets.
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Persis Bradford
Lucila Brown
Lisle Avenue
Persis
Hamilton Street
Lucia
Simeon Ross
Mr. Ross
Perais
Lucie
Persais Bradford
Clinton Bradford
The Common Opossum and Easter Egg Craft
A historical note describes the common opossum including its diet and pouch birth, then details an Easter egg craft dipping eggs in suet before etching names, washing, and coloring. A separate tale recounts monks sheltering swallows during a snowstorm near St. Bernard hospice, saving many from the cold before they continued north.
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Alps
Italy
St. Bernard
Captain A Jolly Game and Beheadings in School Play
A description of a group game where captains and crew form lines around a captain and sing threats to catch a partner, then switch partners with the captain chasing. The remaining player becomes captain, continuing the cycle. Beheading riddles follow with wordplay removing initial letters to yield new clues.
Little Ruth Paints Easter Eggs With Paper Pictures
Ruth Ransom saves a scrapbook of tiny paper pictures. She convinces her mother to paste them on Easter eggs for her siblings, while her father finds a solution to dye shortage. Easter morning reveals decorated eggs and a brown straw hat for Ruth.
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Ruth Ransom
Allegheny River
Ruth
Father
Jenny
Carrie
Maud
Carrie’s Nest
Ruth’s
Easter Day Seen As Happy Holiday For Children
A reflection on how Easter shifted from religious penance to a festival of music, cheer, and gifts. The piece notes children learn joy quickly, praises the growing popularity of Easter across denominations, and links the holiday to spring and new life with widespread cheerful observance.
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Germany
Earth
Man
Mr Easter Egg Tripped On White House Lot
A playful tale follows Mr Easter Eyg as he rolls eggs on the White House lot. He trips and falls breaking his crust and can no longer rise to pick up the pieces, leaving him bitter and downcast.
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White Houses
A Legend of Three Eggs and the Sea King Roost
A mother hen tends three eggs, one oddly shaped, whose eventual hatchling becomes a vain yet graceful sea king. The tale ends with a village Easter game, rooster and hen, where children chase and outsmart each other in a lively outdoor round.
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Philadelphia Ledger
Rabbits and Easter Eggs in German Folk Story
The piece recounts an old German tale explaining Easter eggs and rabbits. An injured hen sitting on many eggs is killed by a fox, and a benevolent rabbit guardians the chicks as they hatch at Easter time.
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Arthur
Jack
Leo
Rebecca
John
Charlie
Deer
Douglas
Hidden Puzzles and Riddles From Youth's Companion
A collage of puzzles from Youth's Companion including Hidden Spices Hidden Animals Famous Battles and Anagrams. It presents word games with clues about battles animals and city names to identify within quoted prose and verse.
June charms with flowers and fragrances in Charade puzzle
No. 1288 features Charade verses praising June with flowers and garlands. Puzzle items include weights summing to 121 1 3 9 27 81 and notes on acrostic and anagrams. Other entries mention No. 1274 London clue No. 1275 procrastination No. 1276 alphabetical order No. 1277 misadventures No. 1278 Napoleon Bonaparte pictured words.
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Acrogtic
London
Napoleon Bonaparte
Easter Breakfast Table Puzzle
Johnny enters the dining room and finds fourteen articles on the table. The puzzle asks to locate all items by moving through a grid of letters in any direction including diagonals, without skipping or reusing steps.
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Johnny
Concealed Word Square and Riddles Collection
A set of wordplay items including Concealed Word Square clues about a rope and tree climb, Hidden Spices list Ginger clove mustard cinnamon, a Riddie about water and wait er, Famous Battles Waterloo Bannockburn Paris Sedan Bull Run Ladysmith, and multiple charades anagrams and rhymed word squares.
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Oporto
Athens
Rome
Baltimore
Tokio
Loughrea
Glasgow
Boston
Madrid
Paris
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Argier
Alec
Youth
June
EIC
Micajiah
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