Seven Naughty Boys Learn Lessons From Seven Paps
A humorous verse about seven mischievous boys who play craps in class and are disciplined by seven stern parents who teach them a lesson with straps. Hiupa Darr.
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Newspaper
Philadelphia Times
Location
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1902
Page
30
A humorous verse about seven mischievous boys who play craps in class and are disciplined by seven stern parents who teach them a lesson with straps. Hiupa Darr.
Eleven year old Buster offers to run his Uncle John’s publishing business in Philadelphia. He then visits Ohio to milk Bonnie the Alderney cow at Uncle Jim’s farm, only to have Bonnie thwart his plan with a headlong fall and a sly, remembered warning.
A farmyard plan to milk Bonnie falls apart as Buster mocks Jennie and bullies the cow. Aunt Esther asks about milking while Buster wanders home in the mud, muttering about undone chores and comic mischief.
Department Commander Robert P. Scott visited Philadelphia and Doylestown for ceremonies and the state Sons of Veterans encampment. He presided over meetings, praised the parade, and planned future posts visits as the Pennsylvania Division held its most successful encampment.
Naval Veterans post 400, presided by Commander Morgan, held Wednesday night muster with four new recruits Captain William Musgrave, John Dugan, Archibald Clark, Enos Benner. Rear Admiral Forsyth attended and spoke. A naval plot restoration report for Mount Moriah Cemetery was approved for Navy consideration and funded.
The Survivors' Association of the Seventy second Pennsylvania Volunteers held its regular monthly meeting at G A R headquarters with Thomas F. Longaker presiding and William Pricer as secretary. Thirty comrades attended as memorial and financial business were discussed. Two members, Edward Newman and Howard W Hill, were reported dead since the last meeting.
In a rural comic tangle, Buster Banks tests his milking skill on Bonnie the cow. Bonnie subdues him with a tail lash and a deft hoof, spilling the milk over Buster’s head as Aunt Esther and Jennie Secur arrive for supper, amused by the misadventure.
A compact note on the common clouded sulphur butterfly describing its life stages from caterpillar to butterfly. It notes appearance, behavior in sunlit fields, favorite flowers like clover, and details of Madame Sulphur’s wing pattern and coloring guidance for female specimens.
The text contrasts butterfly and moth features noting antennae knobs slender bodies and day versus night flight. It explains caterpillar behavior including non spinning cocoons and chrysalis stage with silk girdle before winter, then spring emergence and a playful garden scene ends with Alan chasing a butterfly.
Alan and Greta improvise a playful serial in a garden setting. Greta begins a tale about Mr Katydid hosting a grand ball for Miss Katydid with green hair and eyes, toward a lush, bustling celebration in a meadow.
At Wilde Post No. 25 muster on the 17th, a granite shaft thirty feet high with a twelve foot soldier figure surmounting to forty two feet and about ninety tons was proposed for the court house area in Media. Rev J W Sayers attended to check soldiers’ return from Gettysburg and delivered a rallying speech. Comrade Mark W Allen presented a gavel from Little Round Top bearing a bullet, in tribute to the post with Josiah Smith’s compliments. Comrade George F TrapneiI, a potter, offered a clay vase from local deposits to the post.
General D B Birney Post 63 held a weekly muster led by Commander William F Rimmer with full attendance. The death of Comrade Alexander Lorch was announced by Chaplain E H Wise and a funeral attended by the Birney Guard at Odd Fellows Cemetery with taps and a guard salute.
A short poem describes the moment when night falls and children drift to sleep as the Sandman visits. The whip-poor-will calls and stars appear while dusky skies settle over bedtime.
A woman sought a unique summer hat and found a clever solution in an Arts and Crafts exhibit. A teacher working with poor tenement children inspired a boy to braid raffia into a hat, turning play into a money making venture as orders arrived.
A school craft program lets boys and girls weave sun hats from raffia. Each hat earns about $1.25 and can be shaped after sewing. After mastering baskets, hat making offers customers and schoolwork becomes profit.
In Higginsville Missouri a Mayview man touts the most remarkable cow in Western Missouri. The cow is kept in a tiny pasture with no grass or water. He milks twice daily and uses the skimmed milk for the family, while the milk itself goes back to the cow.
The page presents a word square style puzzle with sections about doubles and homophones. It includes prompts for poems and names plus a set of fill in the blank clues where words sound alike but have different spellings. Examples show phrases like The largest New England State and To imagine.
The column lists solutions to weekly puzzles. Riddle Bore equals boar. Charade Boss-ton yields Boston. Word Puzzle Bought any becomes Botany. Primal Acrostic gives CARBON. Crosswords Cat Ask Rot Bee Odd New resolves to Cat…? Progressive Enigma yields CATERPILLAR. Beheadings show CLOVER, LOVER, OVER.
The New York State Association chess meet is moved to July 14 to 19 with Isaac L. Rice’s prize trophy as main draw. Entry requires club credentials and a $5 fee. a New York Pennsylvania seven on seven team match may be arranged. Event at Murray Hill Isle Thousand Islands, secretary Dr. L. D. Brighton Jr. A report notes Pillsbury Shipley game from 1897 and other problems and prizes in the period’s chess column.
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