Open air pageants gain popularity in America
The article notes a surge in outdoor plays and pageants across the United States, driven by amateurs and private citizens for charitable or municipal purposes. It highlights European traditions like Passion Plays, American influences such as Hiawatha themes, and growing college and school productions led by women including Mrs. Albert Clifford Barney.
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United States
Florida
California
Europe
Southwest
America
Ne Na
New Orleans
White House Lawn
Washington
Edward MacDowell
New Hampshire
Albert Clifford Barney
Cincinnati
Washington, D. C
How to Make a Sail Wagon for Boys
Step by step description shows crafting a sail wagon from a board, large and small wheels, and a mast. Includes steering mechanism, fifth wheel bearing, and rigging details. Explains use of a broom handle as cross arm and quick lowering of the sail.
Sail Wagon Racing Craze Sparks Craft Among Boys
A frontier guide describes building a sail wagon from a wooden hub, round spokes from light curtain poles, a barrel hoop rim, and screws at each spoke. Boys fashion varied designs from available scraps and race them on smooth, windy days, using open spaces for speed.
A Golden World Inside an Orange
A speaker compares a peeled orange to a world full of mountains seas and riches. The orange symbolizes goodness and potential for moral improvement through loving others and seeking kindness. The piece ends with a hopeful note that Columbus’s America could mirror the orange’s golden goodness.
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Ike
Columbus
Grandma
America
Free
Washingtons fame and a five cent cigar
The text contrasts celebrity risk with lasting fame and cites Wilbur D. Nesbit and a Blakaworth exchange. Washington comments that only a future event could threaten his reputation after death. The second vignette shows Skilling ton and Blair discussing costs of car demonstrations in New York with sixty cars on the market.
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Skillington
Blakaworth
Chicago
New York
Harper’s Weekly
Trials of Life In a Small Town
A dialogue captures a city girl’s struggle to adapt to life in a small town. She laments feeling at odds with her new home while a neighbor recalls the community’s response when her child had whooping cough.
Playing the Game in a Cookshop Bargain
Tim, after a good dinner, cannot pay his landlord who offers to waive the bill if Tim will do the same at a rival. Tim rebukes the trap by recounting he already swung the deal yesterday and today.
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Tim
Puck
Fatao’s Quip About a Young Friend Angers Anna
In a playful exchange Miss Anna objects to a college friend’s speech calling it sesquipedalian. The reply defends the friend as a perfect gentleman, sparking humorous debate.
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Fatao
Anna
Ike
Fragmented Punchline Clippings and Thematic Snippets
A collage of comedic lines about marriage night work aging and love letters from a pulp era style. Contains jokes on loans, bluffing in cards, hats, salaries and aging along with a satirical insurance pitch offering pre paid premiums for access to dinners and speaker seats.
Winner Looze Wins Wife in Card Game Romance
In a quip by Wilbur Dick Nesbit, a man named Winner Looze gains his wife through a game of cards. He now lectures on the evils of gambling.
Crowded street scene as microbe conductor shouts for next train
The poem fragment shows a microbe conductor clinging to a thread on a ragged street dress while germs crowd for passage. He yells for room, telling the crowd to take the next train as they swarm for a ride.
Statue or figure of speech in life’s large park
Father and son walk by many statues in a park. The son asks about a large statue inscribed Woman. The father explains it is not a statue but a figure of speech in Life.
Air Cushions Help Swimmer Move Freely in Water
A German master designs a portable swimming aid with two air cushions and five compartments each. The caoutchouc and fabric device inflates in seconds and sits around the torso, freeing head and neck. It promises stability and the ability to swim vertically or horizontally for long periods without fatigue.
Honey bee as engineer of structure and strength
The text compares the honey bee’s comb design to human engineering noting how hexagonal cells maximize space and strength. It cites A H Godard describing comb strips supporting 30 to 40 pounds with minimal weight and argues such natural engineering rivals modern human feats.
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Solomon
Ant
A. H. Godard
Funeral Draws Office Boy To Home Team
A terse exchange unfolds in a “The Home Team” scene as an office boy asks for the afternoon off to attend a funeral. The response hints the family carries the home team’s weight in the neighborhood.
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Yonkerg Statesman
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