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Newspaper
Long Branch Daily Record
Location
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1912
Page
19
Children plead to stay up until midnight as the family plans a rare New Year’s Eve. The mother explains that the baby is often awake then, surprising Freddy and Jennie, and papa consents for one occasion to linger after supper in the sitting room.
In a cozy family scene, children wait for the New Year as the clock nears midnight. They trade beliefs about what the moment will sound or look like, watch the clock, and finally greet the year as the baby’s cry signals the moment when three minutes past twelve arrives.
A Cambridge scientist demonstrated a grain of wheat sown in June yields 574,840 grains in fourteen months, weighing 47 pounds 7 ounces. An acre on fair land yields about 30 bushels or 1,260 pounds of flour. Also notes Old New Year customs and references Giddy Gaddy’s rhyme from a Philadelphia Record excerpt.
A sequence of puzzles and proverb snippets from The Land of Puzzledom and Youth's Companion includes Charade and Transposition games, hidden inventor puzzle, and proverb clues. Readers guessed names from sentences, with clues forming a famous inventor’s name through initial letters and word plays.
A dense list of numbered word puzzles and crosswords from Saint Nicholas magazine including Beheadings Charades and Numerical Enigma items. It catalogs entries 1973 through 1968 with clues, answers and references to various puzzle forms and previous issues.
A Sunday School commentary on Matthew chapter eighteen, detailing how to handle offenses, extend forgiveness endlessly, and maintain communion with God. It emphasizes forgiving others as God forgives, the contrast of large debt to small offenses, and the need for continual repentance within the believer’s life.
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