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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 12, 1907
Page
7
A family tale shows Edith Helen Catharine and George forming a Selfish Club to expose Clarence’s selfishness over table manners and a shared canoe. Each member’s actions backfire until Clarence reflects and vows to change, pleasing their father.
A schoolmaster tests students by asking what is in his hand and on his feet. After several incorrect replies Shoes and Stockings, a confident pupil finally shouts Corns as the correct answer, proving his grasp of the lesson.
A playful note describes using a long jointed rule to craft many figures. The author suggests readers will enjoy discovering numerous shapes and expects them to find many more on their own.
Instructions describe building a cardboard powered boat with a sand box and wooden supports, including dimensions for the hull shaft hole propeller and power wheel. The page also features jests about a hen and a country lad, with remarks on intelligence and schooling.
Readable excerpts describe rural curiosities of visiting children. A boy fears thrashing machines, another wonders if chickens are undressed before bed. A girl named Lottie milks cows and asks if milk from a separator differs from cow milk, and why hens eat with their noses.
A narrator recounts a fable moment where a rabbit says he gave the fox his left hind foot after a blow and suggests that good intentions can be met with complaint yet urges continuing to strive for greater heights.
Tenita and Oyika, two Japanese girls, are shown at work on daily lessons. A magical fairy appears to reward diligence, praising Oyika for steady effort and helping her finish exercises while Tenita struggles with progress.
Johnny debates a doctor's advice on chewing with a wise old physician. He argues that even a sound custom would fail in his large family where seven siblings share meals, leaving none for him after finishing one mouthful.
A ragged minstrel, hungry after selling his harp, eyes five roasted fowls in a nobleman’s kitchen. The lord bets the minstrel must eat all five. The minstrel names them Jonah’s Stomach, Jonah, Whalestomach, the Whale, and the Sea, then swallows the Sea and the others follow in a clever reversal. The nobleman, fooled, rewards him with a purse as the minstrel departs.
A fragmented reminiscence recalls a heron tale where The bird has no tail to speak of and Martha mentions the tail being naughty and talking. A church festival memory features a Sunday-school teacher asking a boy why he cries and he responds that he is full and cannot eat more.
A young artist mocks a neighbor’s dress until he learns his neighbor is the famed portraitist D. who quietly paints a commission for a young lady. G. later discovers D. is the benefactor behind the masterful work and ceases ridiculing his dress.
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