Editor's Letter to Juniors on Thanksgiving
My Dear Juniors the page is booming keep your name on the honor roll some fell off for missing every other week there is space so submit letters next week write anything about Thanksgiving Helen Raymond signs off this week
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Helen Raymond
Wapello
Raymond
Maye Jones
Lulu Walter
Iowa
Muscatine
Worthing
Moscow
Pearl Mittman
Keosauqua
Bessie A. McCoy
Conesville
Letts
Pearl Rhyner
George Rolland
Snelling
Cone
Ainsworth
Miss Raymond
Maria Marsh
My Favorite Times of Year and Why
A child’s reminiscence on spring and autumn joys, birds returning, green grass, house cleaning, gardens, and school. It ends with letters from Vinnie Reddick and Lulu Walter in 1908 describing school, family, and small town life in Iowa.
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Vinnie Reddick
Conesville
Miss Raymond
Vinnie
Shep
Raymond
Clayton Reddick
Junior Letters From West Liberty and Nearby Iowa Towns
A 1908 collection of short letters from young readers in West Liberty Muscatine Columbus Junction Iowa. Ina Garrison Mamie Morris Laura Jones share school notes puzzles and daily life updates including weather and schooling changes.
Letter from Muscatine relative in 1908
A dated personal letter from Muscatine Iowa on November 3 1908 speaks to family health and mentions Uncle Henry visiting on Sunday and leaving Monday. The writer addresses Bernice and asks after other relatives.
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Muscatine
Bernice
Henry
Junior Page Letters From Iowa Teens 1908
A collection of brief letters from young writers across Muscatine Lone Tree and Moscow Iowa and Worthing South Dakota dated November 1908. The notes discuss school, teachers, family life, farm work, and anticipation of Christmas with plans to contribute stories or puzzles for the Junior Page.
Thanksgiving plan hints in Junior page letter
A Lone Tree correspondent writes the Junior page on November 4 1908 greeting readers asking how they are and noting no story this week. She mentions Thanksgiving on the 25th and a big roast and ends with a question about Francis Bele.
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Lone Tree
Francis Bele
Local Junior Page Letters From Muscatine Iowa 1908
A compilation of letters from Iowa students dated November 1908. Juniors share school life, stories, honors, and promises to write next week, with notes on exams, vacations, and a Halloween visit. Includes short riddles and sign-offs from multiple towns.
Kids' Essays on Indians and Japan Mixed in Journal
excerpts discuss Native American tribes tracing origins and lifestyles with chiefs and wigwams, plus a Japan essay covering geography culture tech trains schooling and customs. Added are student notes from Hazel Phillips and Grace Kemp detailing preferences and local school scenes in Iowa.
Japanese Children Describe Play and Dress in America
A short reader note describes Japanese children as lightly clothed yet warm, tallish for their size, with wooden shoes and large sleeves. They make fans, umbrellas, snowmen, and forts, using charcoal eyes and stilt walking, while their language differs from English.
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America
Pear! Rhyner
P. S
Life in Japan as Seen by a Visitor
The text notes Japan on islands near Asia with simple homes lacking chairs. People sit on cushions, use wood pillow blocks, remove shoes inside, and sleep well. Children play with toys including ovens that bake sweets via real fire. Schools exist. children attend until ten. lessons are tough. The alphabet has forty seven letters.
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Asia
Japan
School Day Customs in China and Outsider Views
The writer notes Chinese classroom rituals with teachers bowing to students and students removing shoes. Lessons use brushes on sheets with writing top to bottom, books starting at the back. The piece contrasts these practices with American habits and mentions imports from Japan. Ruth Raven expresses a desire for honor roll and tab lets.
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China
America
Japan
Ruth Raven
My Favorite Time of Year and Why
A child explains why winter is preferred with holidays like Thanksgiving Christmas and New Year and added events such as Valentine day skating and snow. The writer mentions learning to skate and hopes to win a prize to receive a book. Signed Pearl Mittmann.
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New World
North American
South America
America
North America
Arizona
Mexico
Yucatan
United States
Ohio
Manuel
Sacheny
Pourous
Hazel Phillips
Lucas St
Muscatine
Santa Clause
George Washington
Pearl Mittmann
Little Japanese Children and their island homeland life
A vignette describes Japanese children on a distant island, their wooden shoes and stilts, monthly feasts to honor gods, and a temple visit by Yoshi san and his grandmother. A Chinese mother loses hope for letters from a husband returning to Japan and sends a boy seaward with a card identifying him.
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Jaan
Grace Kemp
Letts
Iowa
R. R
Japan
Yoshi-san
Shiba
The Japanese Children and Their Customs Described
A dated account describes Japanese children as polite and orderly, wearing white stockings at home and sandals or clogs outdoors. It notes temple naming rites for boys, shaved heads at four months, early lessons in manners, diverse pets, winter snow play, large kite games, and traditional games.
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Asia
Arthur Wendinger
P. S
Japan Children and Their Cultural Daily Life
A historical sketch contrasts Japanese children's appearances and routines with Western norms. It notes color, clothing, floor seating, page reading direction, chopstick use, hair styles, and pillow choices, then comments on nourishment and parental knowledge, ending with a grim contrast to Western child welfare.
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Isles of
Japan
Roll of Honor Names Seventeen Local Servants and Allies
A long list of names including Flossie Helverison Marietta Marsh Elsie Hank Pearl Rhymer Lucile Mylon Blanche Mylon Zella Kemp Mabel Kemp Grace Kemp Bernice McJunkin Orpheus Anderson Earl Haroff Tacy Smith Willard Rausch Pearl Dietrick Lena Marolp Anna Marolp Gertrude Hill Ena Auten Viola Auten Clara Kothe Everett Anderson Verda Marwell Marian Marsh Verna Auten Lutitia Adams Plora Mae Marks Celia Ticktin Mervil Adams Bertha Davis Clinton Davis Helen Ethal Hazzel Phillips Jonathan W Winn Eva Maurath Helen Simpson Frances Davis Blanche Powers J Paul Tedford Alice Mae Lorber Ruth Ramner Betty Avy Dersenn Virgilsoure Clara West Iona Garrison Blanch Powers Clara Ruthenberg Athel Bevard Bessie Macoy Bertha Schnesaler Albert Schnesaler Laura Schnesaler Lulu Walter Gheorghe Rolland Harry Shaw Dorothy Killian Dorothy Smith.
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Willard Rausch
Pearl Mittman
Pearl Dietrick
Lena Marolp
Anna Marolp
Gertrude Hill
Ena Auten
Viola Auten
Clara Kothe
Everett Anderson
Verda Marwell
Mildred Marsh
Grace Babbitt
Hazel Phillips
Vinnie Reddick
Marian Marsh
Verna Auten
Lutitia Adams
Plora Mae Marks
Celia Ticktin
Mervil Adams
Bertha Davis
Clinton Davis
Helen Ethal
Hazzel Phillips
Jonathan W. Winn
Eva Maurath
Helen Simpson
Frances Davis
Blanche Powers
J. Paul Tedford
Alice Mae Lorber
Arthur Wendinger
Ruth Ramner
Betty Avy Dersen
Virgil Soure
Clara West
Iona Garrison
Blanch Powers
Clara Ruthenberg
Athel Bevard
Clara Marshall
Erma Finley
Laura Jones
Bessie Macoy
Bertha Schnesaler
Albert Schnesaelr
Laura Schnesaelr
Lulu Walter
Clayton
The Japanese Children Story With Parasol Making
A compact tale describes polite Japanese children living in Japan Summers warm and winters mild described, with parasol making and rice planting. A closing note hopes for honor with reader Nellore Lee Box 25 care of R M Lee.
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Japan
Miss Raymond
Nellore Lee
R. M. Lee
My Favorite Winter Time
An 11 year old recalls winter as the best season with snow for sledding and skating. The long pond near the house offers a place to learn skating as plans include getting skates and a three person sled for family fun.
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R. R
Virgil Palle
Preparing for Winter From an Illinois City Letter 1908
In autumn potatoes are dug and stored for winter while apples are picked for market. Turnips beets carrots and cabbage go to the cellar. Coal is bought and wood is sawed. November brings corn husking for hogs cattle horses and sheep. From June to October the housewife cans berries apples peaches pears plums for winter. Beans are threshed and sold or kept to eat.
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Junior
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