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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1909
Page
8
The editor urges juniors to write, offering a prize for the best geography question set and a story. Topics include Great Expositions and Why They Have Been Held, Earthquakes, and A Bitter Experience, with prizes for top submissions and reuse of questions for future winners. The note signs off as Helen Raymond.
In August a train arrives at a town where Tom and his cousins stage a backyard circus. The event features a parrot, Jack and Grace with drum and mandolin, Tom’s magic lantern, and a prize lamb card draw won by Buster. Blanche Custer signs off with a watercolor-paint wish.
Dear Editor from West Branch Iowa dated May 28 09 Nellie Preston writes she is waiting for Emma Finleys postal card says baby cries and she is not feeling well she promises to write better next time and excuses herself before signing Nellie Preston
A 1909 handwritten letter from Ruth Biggs of Columbus Junction dated June 2 1909 asks after Marie Overholt and friends Ted Edna and Greta. The note mentions an old hen and eight chickens and ends with friendly regards.
A princess inherits a Fearess Heart from a jealous fairy at her christening. She leaves the guarded Garden into fairyland with her fairy godmother and meets a westering prince. The pair fall in love and plan marriage, while the prince returns west with an entourage to seek parental consent. To be continued.
George Kent a nineteen year old fireman saves No. 10 passengers by stopping a runaway consists of an engine and Leighton a brakeman. They pursue the freight around the Angle curb and link the locomotives just as No. 10 nears. Kent speaks of taking consequences while the horses are saved and the crew survives with minor injuries.
Wilton residents submit notes to the Junior Page dated May 27 1909 May 31 1909 and June 3 1909 with honor roll mentions puzzles of boys and girls names a note on weather a school program and a stitched wound after gaining three stitches. Muscatine reports a June picnic story about two boys John and Frank planning a picnic that is spoiled by rain.
Two sorrowful boys went to bed upset but morning sun warmed their day. They rode with their mother to the park by nine, played games, shared a picnic dinner for twenty five friends at noon, then returned home by streetcar. They thanked Frank and John for a good time and slept tired but happy. From Your old Junior Forest Rhone.
Mary, a town girl, asks her mother to visit cousins on the farm and gets permission to go if she helps with chores and follows farm rules. The narrative focuses on family dynamics and rural life as Mary experiences farm routines.
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