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Newspaper
New Castle News
Location
New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1925
Page
14
A poor Indian youth Nunoog leaves home with a single goat and finds work on a large farm. He earns half pay plus a hen that lays twelve eggs daily. He sells the hen to a king for a large sum, enabling his family to prosper for years, while the legendary fowl continues to lay abundantly.
A playful verse notes Ma Centipede cannot join card clubs nor play at mahjong. While others win rocks she prefers darning socks and sighs that something is wrong.
A cruel stepmother drives Tirala from home after wind steals her cotton. Tirala seeks aid from a forest bear who grants a golden spindle, spinning wheel, and cotton bow. She then helps a seven mouthed prince by preparing meals and entering a journey toward justice.
A fragment describes a trick with rice curries and a coin in a bottle involving water, a match, and a mysterious sprite called the snail. A narrative voice hints at a girl named Thala and her cruel stepmother, with a lesson about a magic coin and a hidden phoenix of tricks.
A reader guided tale presents deer types as players in a forest puzzle where choices of reindeer and other deer create a whimsical chase. Characters narrate a playful scene with a prince, a beautiful girl, and a happy ending hinted as the deer dash for shelter among chalk marks and paper props in a street or woods setting.
Poetic note describes wooden soldiers of varying shapes marching to answer the city’s call. They reassure that nothing should alarm residents and that these figures will keep them safe from fear.
Dewi, a shepherd lad on a mountain slope, encounters a company of Little People singing and dancing. They invite him to supper and stay the night. He enjoys a lavish feast and a dreamlike stay with striped tents and fine linens. In the morning the tents vanish, leaving him asleep on brush and moss with silver coins and a weekly money hidden nearby.
Puzzle page teases timing tricks with ten quick wordplay items. Short humorous prompts challenge readers to spot puns and clever twists. Each teaser invites instant thinking and rapid mental flair.
Puzzle appears as a list of phonetic or pun style items with altered spellings. It includes Fern dish, Fur-N-dish, Sherbet cups, Finger bowls, Tutte spreaders, Butter-$-P-red-ure, Cake Utter, Cake-Lfter, Gravy ladle, Gee-ray-V-lai-L, Cheese server, Cheeese-serve-cr, $. Butterpicks, 9. Saltccllary, Saw-L-T-cellar-S, 1). Bread tray, Gread-tray.
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