Shadow Verbs Play Delights Detroit Children
The Detroit Free Press describes a shadow verb game where a lit lamp behind a sheet casts silhouettes for players to guess verbs that rhyme with their chosen word. The outside team signals, the inside team responds, and correct guesses are greeted with claps. The piece continues with a vignette about an apathetic young man at a cultured gathering, who is charmed yet ultimately aided out of the ball by a blue-clad companion.
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Detroit Free Press
Jake
London tribute to Thames steamboats names list
The London county council will name thirty Thames steamers after British celebrities such as Soakapeare Marlowe Pepys Firs Ail win Carlyle and Caxton. Proposed by MP John Burns the plan has wide press and public approval. If you ride a donkey what fruit would you resemble Ans A pale.
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London County Council
Thames
Soakapeare
Marlowe
Pepys
Firs
Ailwin
London
Carlyle
Caxton
John Burns
Dog-Matic misread at London Art Club exhibition
A young reader studied a portrait titled Tete Espagnole and, after confirming the catalog misread the number 191, debated the French wording while a companion explained the spaniel’s head reference, suggesting a numbering error.
No Morry About It Baseball Pitcher Preference
A Sunday school scene shows a teacher asking Johnny to join the angelic chorus. He replies he would rather be a baseball pitcher now. The misremembered line ends with a note on fickle memory and stubborn purposes.
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Johnny
Mock Turtle and Other Dishes From a Historic Recipe Collection
A collage of old kitchen instructions for mock turtle soup veal shank stew and kidney dishes. Recipes describe boiling veal with aromatics then frying kidney with flour and seasonings, assembling egg yolk cream beetroot rounds, canned peas preservation methods, prune pudding, Graham bread, rice mold, cheese cake, lemon wafers, and general baking tips.
Railroads and Progress in Early United States Discussion
Senatorial testimony by Prof. Hugo R Meyer of Chicago University argues rail expansion spurred West agricultural growth and East industrial booms. He criticizes the Interstate Commerce Commission for narrow views and warns regulation could curb statesmanlike railway leadership. Judge J W Whitten tours Alaska and notes Dawson’s strict Sunday closures versus American cities with Sunday saloons and gambling.
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Senate
Washington
Hugo R Meyer
Chicago University
New York
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Atlantic Seaboard
Interstate Commerce Commission
Mississippi
Mississippi River
Mississippii
Europe
New England
West
J W. Whitten
General Land Office
Alaska
Dawson
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Lasters
VMNE
SWIFT
Coxy
Atlanta
Sts. A
Liverpool
M. A. Deceza
S.S. S
O. Simmons
Bears
Java
Rho Lim
Railroads and Progress
Ayer
Lowell
Woodard, Clarke & CO
Portland
Oregon
Hotel Portland
Portand
Cafo
H. C. Bowers
Br. C. Gee We
Thie
Rouge
Callandereum
Zena
Alder ST
Portland, Oregon
Weatton
Stover
Idaho
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