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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1909
Page
7
The letter from Helen Raymond praises the Juniors for their Fourth of July week work and announces several new Roll of Honor entries. She urges all juniors to write next week on Vacation Pleasures and to submit stories.
A collection of short letters from young readers in Lone Tree La Center Wilton Letts Wapello and Wilton Junction Iowa dated July 1909 recounts Fourth of July outings rainy weather chautauqua visits and everyday activities. Authors name themselves as Juniors and mention honoring rolls and puzzles while wishing to be printed in the Junior Page.
Short note from Pear Miss Raymond explains time constraints prevent a full story but requests to remain on the honor roll list with best wishes for all.
A sunny afternoon in Jamie's home features tea under the trees for papa's birthday. Jamie helps with biscuits and strawberries before the farmyard hens swoop in for cake, until mamma shoo s them away and Jamie cries.
A seven year old boy named Carl in a riverside log cabin plans a generous Fourth of July by buying firecrackers for a neighbor who cannot afford them. He suggests sharing his pennies to bring joy to the boy in the small nearby house. Blanche Custer signs the note with a P S wish for a handkerchief if won.
In Chicago Tribune language Uncle Allen Sparks quips after the celebration that a cannon cracker is a firework with fire at one end and a foot at the other. The remark frames the post‑celebration mood with humor.
In a dramatic ward-room recollection Lieutenant Raymond recounts the Rip Van Winkle ship Neponset’s fifty year wait in an Antarctic cove. After a fort night, a khai reveal opens a passage through ice, a voyage resumed, and a missing crew eclipsed by a gale.
Roll of Honor lists Estella Dickson of Wapello Iowa Elenore Lee of Lowe City Iowa Ethel Bevard of La Center Washington Anna Ticktin of Wilton Iowa Celia Ticktin of Watom Ta Anna Marolf of Wilton Iowa Lena Marolf of Wilton Iowa Hazel Thompson of Letts Iowa Mary J Hinkley of Lane Tree Iowa Thomas Wildman of Nichols Iowa Pearle Hinkley of Lone Tree Iowa
A brief reminiscence recalls Henry a year older and dressed a night dress scene. Mary forgets, but her father laments not carrying her home, a sentiment lasting forty years as told by Thomas Wildman.
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