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Newspaper
Miniota Herald
Location
Miniota, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Dec 19, 1907
Page
3
Aunt Betsy shares a country porch lesson on the cowpen bird or cowbird. The parasitic nests, egg stealing, and foster parents caring for the adopted young are described with details on egg appearance and which nests are most affected. The tale closes with a note on bird life’s oddities. Jessie Bowles Fisher.
A boy in England repurposed his father’s discarded top hat into a collection box with a slot under the crown and a placard asking for copper coins. At a Wimborne church bazaar the hat drew many donations, yielding a rich harvest of coins. A separate note mentions Dorothy touring England with her mother and a guide showing a cannon said to be captured at Bunker Hill.
In Carpinteria California a dog named Rover loves watching his master grind scissors. He steps on the wheel for hours and never tires of the activity. When business slows Rover begs to join in and help again.
A riddle about two buckets of a well sweep show different fates as one always returns empty and the other full of water. A maid returns a lost dime, then a dollar, choosing honesty. A tale follows Robbie wishing to be George Washington and Auntie notes his struggle with truth and pie.
A stern Count Ignacio guards a vast fairy treasure house in a forest. A huntsman prince wins Isabel, is jailed by the count, but rescued by attendants. The prince and Isabel marry, become king and queen, while the count remains keeper of the treasure.
An old colored man known as Uncle George struggles with stealing despite good intentions. He confesses a nagging urge to take what he touches and prays at night about how he came to possess a pig, the more he explains the worse it becomes.
A poem tracing lighting in a family across generations from tallow dip to gas lamp to electric light. The speaker imagines future X ray magic that will banish shadows. Signed by Albert Musgrove Hamer of Harrisburg Pennsylvania, age twelve.
A schoolteacher explains that all good people will wear a golden crown someday. A pupil counters that his father already wears one, but the teacher gently clarifies that the crown is on his tooth, not his head.
A children’s dialogue explains a needle with a point of steel and an eye for threading. The teacher and Mary discuss India’s produce, joking about curries and pepper before India digestion is cheekily mentioned.
A Reader's Note humor piece compares tribal revenge through blanket tearing with the irony of language. It includes a child exchange explaining irony and a short whimsical scene about a three year old noticing pansies and asking where their heads are.
A neighbor asked how many stops Tillie’s toy organ has. Her mother answered quickly breakfast luncheon dinner and bed, explaining the four stops after ITTLE TILLIE received the organ from her father.
A classroom jape turns on a teacher asking to share a watermelon into twenty pieces for twenty boys, with Johnny Jones quickly answering a quick, witty sum that leaves the class amused. A father and son quip about saving money echoes the light humor.
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