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Newspaper
Russell Banner
Location
Russell, Manitoba, Canada
Date
Oct 25, 1906
Page
10
Children are urged to reuse unused items like empty thread spools to craft toys. Instructions describe making a spool nose and facial features with a knife, paint, and a wedge from a stick, encouraging creative play and future ideas for summer fun.
The passage describes making cardboard crowns swords visors and hats for various roles plus craft ideas like gum hands and stick whittling. It then outlines games such as Fishermen King Caesar Jolly Miller and Fox and Goose with steps and rhymes for group play and movement.
Aunt Hannah gives James 4 cents, Harry 6, Thomas 10, and William as much as the rest. Mr. Fox and Mother Goose share a playful forest scene with games, tricks, and a spider tale told by Aunt Amelia to amused children.
Benny visits a barber with his father for a haircut and shampoo. The barber clips away many locks, compares Benny to a snowball, and rinses the hair with a hose as Benny endures a playful mockery and lighthearted mishaps.
Benny undergoes a barber chair procedure with hot gas drying and a peculiar wind effect as a photo sequence shows him with a smaller head and taller frame after the cut. His father plans a jewelers lock of hair keepsake for Benny’s mother, who sobs at the sight of her now grown boy.
A collection of quaint epitaphs references found on English headstones. One notes Joseph Jones who ate while able and rises to meet doom for dinners. Another stone for John Sykes explains his stagecoach death as a maker of passengers. Enoch Wood, famed rustic cricketer, is recalled with a verse about his cricketing fate and a bowler named Gout.
The article describes varieties of sea anemones that attach to rocks or burrow in sand. Some rise above the surface while others bury completely. They can reach seven or eight inches and may lie flush with the sand or mud surface, or slightly below, forming a trap for small wandering creatures.
A school boy Tommy is caught making faces behind his teacher. The teacher scolds him as Tommy explains that TJ was going to laugh but his facial slip betrayed him.
A boatswain aboard the English schooner Caspian brought a strange animal from India he called his Tabby. The creature resembled a cat but was likely a freak of the animal world with two pairs of wings and limited ability to fly, though it could manage with great difficulty when tethered.
A humorousアウトdated column advises women to hire a professional picker to harvest pears before boys reach climbing age. It warns that unripe fruit bruises, stresses careful storage in drawers with newspaper, and urges vigilant monitoring to prevent ripening into a soft, spicy fruit.
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