New Lord Mayor of London Named Children’s Lord Mayor
Sir William Purdie Treloar is installed as Lord Mayor and named the children’s Lord Mayor. He is famed for aiding London’s cripples and organizing annual Christmas hampers with Ludgate Hill carpet warehouses near St. Paul’s. A celebrated coachman in the procession is nicknamed Mr. Globe Polish for his cheerful face and abstinence.
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Dick Whittington
London
William Purdie Treloar
Ragged School Union
Waong
William
Ludgate Hill
St. Paul's Cathedral
Sir William
Old London
Fleet Street
Mr. Globe Polish
Night of peril on the ice ends with rescue and reunion
Archie, Billy Topsail, and Bill are stranded on a turbulent wind driven ice field near Burnt Bay after a sealing voyage. A search across blizzard and darkness leads Bill to find Archie and carry him to safety toward a hammock shelter, where they revive him beside a warming fire as dawn reveals the stranded ship Dictator nearby. One man dies in the ordeal and Captain Hand welcomes the crew back aboard.
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Archie
Billy
Bluff Bill
Burnt Bay
Bill
Norman Duncan
Billy Topsail
Billy Burnt Ray
Hand
Cap’n
A familiar eight letter word anagrammed fifteen times
Dr. John Abernethy uses fifteen anagrams of a single eight letter word embedded in lines about a public figure and events. The riddle culminates in a description of an object that stands all day without tiring, with clues hinting at the word being involved in the final answer about a common inanimate thing.
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John Abernethy
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Hidden Battles Puzzle Sentences
The water looks very inviting on a hot sultry day hides Waterloo. Why will Dan tie tame calves to the fence hides Battle of Agincourt.
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Dan
Mighty dog Bhotean guards regimental drum in distant lands
Story describes a large dog used to pull and guard a drum in European regiments. Bhotean, a 145 pound mastiff three years old, was found in Lassa and sent to London after a British expedition to Tibet. He guards and protects, trained to view men as enemies.
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Lam
Germany
Austria
Servia
Bhotean
Lassa
Tibet
London
Effects of Smoking on the Heart Discussed by Teacher
A teacher explains how cigarette smoking harms the heart while a keen boy asks how often people must die before they truly die. The exchange highlights the deadly risks and prompts reflection on mortality.
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