Editor's Letter to Journal Juniors City vacation for junior page
The junior page goes on a two week break with editor Helen Raymond promising a return with better content. Prizes for best stories go to Vera Ingraham Sidney Guthrie Edward Brooks Florence Burk and others receive gift options. Submissions for two weeks remain welcome with new prompts on The Animal I Like Best and Why Do and other topics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vera Ingraham
Sidney Guthrie
Edward Brooks
Florence Burk
St. Louis
Great
Rocky Mountains
Johnnie
Helen Raymond
Sammy and the Bear in the Iowa Woods
Eleven year old Sammy faces a stern aunt and a dangerous forest bear. He dodges chores at home and, while escaping a bear near the woods, avoids climbing a tree by discovering bees guarding honey. He returns to the farm safe and decides life with Aunt Miranda beats living with a bear. Grace Dungan Muscatine Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sammy
Miranda
Grace Dungan
Beggs Street
Muscatine
Iowa
Saturday Morning With Mamma and Wild Friends
A child recalls a Saturday routine from waking to prayers, chores, and breakfast. The day includes visiting the pasture, exploring by creek, observing animals like dogs rabbits and squirrels, picking wildflowers and berries, returning home for supper and prayers, then drifting to sleep listening to whippoorwills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mamma
Sam's Adventure in Deerfield Frontier
Sam, a twelve year old boy, lives with his family in a rough log hut in Deerfield frontier country. The woods around their settlement teem with Indians and wild animals as he asks to tend the cows while his father is away, but his father cautions about the dangers hiding in the surrounding woods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam
Deerfield
Papa
Riley
Indigenous Play Week Told by Vera Ingraham
Vera Ingraham recounts eight days with the Ohie Seton Indians at Muscatine Chautauqua in July 1906. She details games and ceremonies, Indian names burned on arrows, costumes, races, and a visit by Mr. Seton with a concluding talk and pictures.
Thunderstorm Ends Picnic at Tower Grove Park
Florence Burk of St. Louis recalls a sunny picnic with seven adults and a dog turned chaotic when a sudden storm drenched the group. They sought shelter in a pavilion as rain lashed trees and wind knocked down palm fronds before returning home to a wet carpet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Milias
Baby Lilian
Muscatine
Adele Wheeler
Mamma
Tower Grove Park
O. K
Florence Burk
St. Louis
Eight Days with the Seton Indians Prize Story for Boys
The Kwasind tribe of Seton Indians formed by Mrs. Fuller Swift in Muscatine includes about 200 braves and maidens with names like Twenty Skiffs Red Fox Little Bear White Buffalo Yellow Bird Red Wing Pocahontas. Activities include dodge ball archery and field day with prizes for skinning the snake and pony race. Chief Black Wolf lectures on Wild Animals I have Known and photographs are taken before a final illusional lecture. Chief Black Wolf ends the 1906 gathering with hope for a return next year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fuller Swift
Muscatine
Kwasind
Hiawatha
Mr. Seton
Black Wolf
Sam Jones Defends Family In Forest Panther Fight
Sam Jones sets out with a new gun after his father’s absence and his mother’s worry. He encounters a panther in the forest, kills it, and reaches neighbor Riley’s where his father is ready to return home. The family hails Sam as a hero. Nellie Houdek, age 12.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Jones
Sam
Mr. Jones
Mr. Riley
Father
Riley
Nellie Houdek
How I Usually Spend Saturday
Emma Wilson of Sigourney Iowa describes a typical Saturday: she practices piano in the morning, attends a 9 oclock lesson, then practices guitar and mandolin, shops for Sunday groceries, has visitors from 1 to 4, rehearses with a mandolin club, and ends with a band concert, park games, ice cream, candy, and a late lunch at home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emma Wilson
Sigourney, Ia
Saturday Routine At Home From Florence Burk
Florence Burk of 4466 A Chouteau Ave in St Louis describes her typical Saturday evening sequence. She stores items, eats at six thirty, helps with dishes, descends the stairs, then climbs to bed, ending her usual day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florence Burk
Chouteau Ave
St. Louis
St. Louis, MH
Seton Indians Host First Muscatine Chautauqua
A local report describes the Seton Indians led by Mrs. Swift with the Kawasind tribe hosting a first Muscatine Chautauqua. Daily councils and games such as pony and chariot races, wheelbarrow relays, dodge ball, skin the snake, and tug of war were held. The event featured meals and lectures by Mr. Seton on wildlife and habitats with Little Chief Edward Brooks noted among participants.
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Little Chief
Edward Brooks
East Sixth Street
Daily Routine From Morning To Evening
The passage lists a sequence of daily tasks from waking and dressing to shopping for breakfast, eating, cleaning the house, dusting, practicing, washing dishes, preparing dinner, doing the dishes again, resting or playing, and ending with returning at about half past five.
Honor Roll Names From Muscatine and St Louis
Grace Dungan from Muscatine Florence Burk of St Louis Vera Ingraham and Sidney Guthrie, all listed on the honor roll with Muscatine connections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grace Dungan
Muscatine
Florence Burk
St. Louis
Vera Ingraham
Sidney Guthrie
Summer Storm Traps Marion and Walter at Uncle Henry’s
Twelve year old Mable Dallmeyer recalls how Marion and Walter hid under a bed during a fierce storm at their uncle Henry and aunt Marie’s house. The rain stopped as they were awakened at supper by Uncle Henry calling them. Marion later says she liked the rain but feared thunder and lightning.
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Marion
Walter
Henry
Marie
Mable Dallmeyer
Columbus Junction
Chautauqua features Indian participants and games amid lectures
The excerpt describes a chautauqua with Indian participants, boys' events like dodge ball, wrestling, pony races, and jumps, and girls' events such as toe wrestling and chariot races. An afternoon lecture by Gov. Hanly followed by a Whitney Brothers concert is noted, with continuation of activities the next day.
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Junior
Gov. Hanly
Whitney Bros
Letters From The Journal Juniors From Across Iowa And Missouri
A collage of short letters from young readers replying to Miss Raymond in 1906. Clara Leach Miriam Mackenzie Mat Houdek Ray E Downer Eva Maurath Nellie Houdek Verna Auten Florence Burk and Francis Sinnette share hopes of prize wins stories about storms adventures and opinions on speakers with addresses in Muscatine Arden West Chester St Louis and other towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arden
Iowa
Raymond
Ray E. Downer
West Chester
Muscatine
Tam
Francis E. Sinnette
P. O
Letter from Hazel Fitzgerald to Mabel Wendinger in Iowa page
A dated note from Hazel Minnie Fitzgerald to Miss Mabel Wendinger in Muscatine Iowa on August 1 196. Hazel explains she did not write last week due to not feeling well and asks Mabel to reply soon. She mentions a fan as the preferred prize if she wins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muscatine
Miss Raymond
Sam
Grace Dungan
Beggs St
Iowa
Mabel Wendinger
Mabel
Hazel Minnie Fitzgerald
Chautauqua Notes From Emma Wilson And Helen Raymond
Two letters from Sigourney and Muscatine in 1900 and 1906 discuss attending Chautauqua events. Emma Wilson writes of buying a ticket and preferring a bracelet if she wins. Helen Raymond recalls hearing Rev Sam Jones during a visit to Chautauqua.
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Sigourney, Ia
Chautauqua
Emma Wilson
Muscatine, Ia
Helen Raymond
Sam Jones
Indian Lecturer and Whitney Brothers Concert Featured
At 11 o clock Mr Swift known as Bald Eagle gave a lecture on The Homes and Haunts of American Authors. Afternoon activities included a Whitney Bros concert, Dressing in Education by Mrs Morrell, music by Mesdames McColm Little Warfield Pentzer and a whistling act by Miss Stirlen. An Hour With the Children led by Mrs Whitney. Evening featured Lulu Tyler Gates reading. Saturday morning Indians performed their usual routines and Mr Swift delivered his second lecture on American authors at 11.
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Muscatine
Miss Raymond
Dr. Swift
Bald Eagle
Mr. Swift
Whitney Bros
E. F. Morrell
Muscatine Chautauqua Enjoyed By Young Attendee
Marie Grossheim recalls the Muscatine Chautauqua of August 3 1906 in Muscatine Iowa. She describes camping on site enjoyed lectures by Dr Willits and performances by Seton and the Whitney Bros concert company plus the Roney’s Boys and a young cornetist. She won an arrow prize and hopes the event returns next year.
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Muscatine
Mr. Seton
Whitney Bros. Quartet
Roney’s Boys
Little Cornetist
Marie Grossheim
East Eighth St
Red Wing Chooses Name and Leads Great Indian Games Week
Francis Sinnette from Muscatine Iowa recalls joining on the second day, forming a trail to the reservation, and a council where the name Red Wing was chosen. The diary details daily councils, shooting, bow and arrow, races, Indian games, and a Friday feast with refreshments and prizes. Seton spoke twice in the afternoon and evening.
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Seton
Francis Sinnette
Muscatine
Iowa
A Ride on a Raft Adventure
Mrs. Brown asks her son Harry to ride a raft. They sail across the river on logs and chains. After returning, Harry tells friends about the trip and later plans to build another raft with boards hammers and nails.
Boys Build Raft Then Lose It in Pond Adventure
Harry and Frank construct a raft from boards and oars, hide it near a pond a quarter mile from Harry’s home, plan a sail for tomorrow, and set off in the middle of the pond. The raft breaks apart, they take a ducking, and never ride again. Junior Ray E. Downer, Ardon, Iowa.
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Harry
Frank
Ray E. Downer
Ardon
Towa
Saturday chores at home reveal family routine
A narrator describes a Saturday routine helping with chores, baking, dishwashing, cleaning, shopping, and caring for siblings. The account contrasts typical help with a previous lazy morning and ends with a note from Eva Maurath at 1511 Cedar Street.
Summer Hunting Outing Ends With Bear Sighting
Sam Williams and Tom Jones plan a morning hunting trip. They rise at six, travel to the woods, carry new rifles, and bag rabbits and squirrels before spotting a large black bear by a stream.
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Sam Williams
Tom Jones
Sam
Tom
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Seton Indians
Mama
Sam's Adventure
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