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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1908
Page
16
Dumpling escapes a balloon ride over a French village and drifts to China where he is hailed as the Child of the Sun. He travels home by kite and cloud, returns to his friends, and tries to explain his extraordinary voyage.
The article describes fireflies as beetles that emit light from yellow rear joints, produced by nervous action on microscopic cells. It notes several kinds, such as Brazil's cucuju and tropical Pyrophorus, which can give a steady glow and be sold as ornaments.
An OCR fragment recalls Grace MacGowan Cooke and a character named Little Bobby in a dramatized line about danger and deception. The garbled prose hints at a moral scene with a snare or trap motif.
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