Fox Tricks Dog for Buried Bones Escape
Mr. Fox tricks Mr. Dog by claiming bones are buried at a farm hideout. Dog digs into the den, fails to find the bones, and exits crestfallen. Fox escapes via a back door, vowing to avoid the farm and promising future trouble for the pursuing dog. McClure Newspaper Syndicate.
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Mr. Dog
Mr. Fox
New Year Reflections On Spring Hope And Self Improvement
A columnist celebrates January first with vivid spring imagery and memories of sunlit days. The piece muses on renewal as calendars flip, personal growth, and the desire to begin the year with a better self while noting self acceptance amid introspection.
Burial superstitions tie safety to prompt graves
A discussion of lingering beliefs about delaying burial, linking open graves and staying a corpse in the house to harm. The piece cites primitive ideas of protection from the dead, ghostly danger, and sacred duties, including Hebrew law about quick burial to avoid defiling the land.
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Lewis Dayton Burdick
Mother Earth
Burdick
McClure
Sylvia the rustic muse of poets and mythic roots
The piece traces Sylvia from mythic Sylvanus to Roman Silvius and a shepherdess name in English rural lore. It notes turquoise as her talismanic stone, its Persian association, holly as her flower, Saturday as her lucky day, and a talismanic number attributed by Wheeler Syndicate.
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Silvius
Aeneas
Lavinia
Piccolomini
Sylvius
England
Holly
Wheeler Syndicate, Inc
A Line o Cheer by John Kendrick Bangs
Poem notes the upward way as a personal path beyond earthly snares and pitfalls. The speaker finds place and height by reaching toward light and vows to rise after each stumble, pursuing the upward way with steadfast resolve.
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