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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1909
Page
7
Dear Juniors the Junior Page needs more letters to fill the space. A prize will be awarded next week for the best story on A Day at the County Fair The First Day of School or The Last Picnic of the Season by Muscatine area writers.
A collection of 1909 letters from Thomas S Wildman Anna Marolf Lena Marolf and Grace Workman to editors in Nichols Wilton Wilton Junction and Illinois City describing prize stories rain witnessed school play dog tales and a thrashing day with notes on postcards and B Y P A picnics.
A young girl named Margery endures a day filled with slips and mishaps due to forgetfulness. She misses a music lesson, tears her shirt, and spills tea, provoking parental correction and self reproach as she tries to make amends.
A lengthy narrative blends a tale of Margery from Aunt Janet’s circle with a dog Rover and a boy Bob in a river rescue. The feature then pivots to a travelogue on Sicily from the Women’s Home Companion, celebrating mythic and historic links to Ulysses, Polyphemus, Arethusa, Ceres and Proserpine, Saint Peter and Paul, and Saint Agatha with a closing tease for the ship Abracadabra’s next voyage.
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