Snowstorm Absence Note Baffles Teacher
A mother responds to a school absence excuse with a playful letter noting her son Eddie’s legs measure 14 inches and the snow stood 18 inches, signed Mrs. Franklin Sylvester Johnson.
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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1941
Page
6
A mother responds to a school absence excuse with a playful letter noting her son Eddie’s legs measure 14 inches and the snow stood 18 inches, signed Mrs. Franklin Sylvester Johnson.
Explorer-writer Earl Parker Hanson, born in Berlin in 1899, is preparing two volumes of Latin American country guides under the Nelson Rockefeller committee. He cites Hitlerian warnings and his Arctic campaigns, while Wendt Young campaigns for fair milk prices and a return to farming. Col. Gerald C. Brant leads Gulf Coast air corps training as aviation expansion unfolds. Revelation lesson outlines four interpretive stances and examines the Ephesus and Smyrna churches with lessons on zeal and persecution.
A compact note from an archival page references a September 7 lesson, with garbled internal text suggesting a teaching segment or reading activity. Names and clear details are incomplete, but the item marks a dated educational entry in the issue.
Alec asks a painter how many coats a door gets and is told two. He suggests three coats would be an over coat, but the painter says it would be a waste coat.
A witty exchange recalls a betrothed heiress and her suitor. The father’s intervention shifts the match to a blacksmith, as the speaker jokes about impulse and heat of the moment.
A fragment recalls a wet night incident at a doorstep where Jones encounters Watts and protests his dirty feet. The exchange hints at tension and unnamed consequences as Milde’s response is brief.
A humorous exchange plays out with a lawyer demanding ten dollars as payment for advice while a client questions the charge and rejects the offered legal counsel.
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