Wisdom Cap Restores Meek Schoolmaster in Forest Tale
In Whispering Forest the Green Wizard helps Mr Scribble Scratch, Meadow Grove’s thin schoolmaster, by granting a magical wisdom cap. The pupils become overly clever, causing him to lose students, until the Twins suggest a dunce cap as a remedy. To be continued.
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Mr. Scribble Scratch
Meadow Grove School
Nancy
Nick
Whispering Forest
Twins
Scribble Scratch
Seattle Star
Three Pudding Sauces by Bertha E Shapleigh
Bertha E Shapleigh of Columbia University outlines three pudding sauces. Hard Sauce uses butter brown sugar cream and vanilla. Mousseline Sauce folds beaten egg yolks sugar and cream with salt vanilla. Liquid Sauce combines sugar, water, cornstarch, butter and vanilla.
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Bertha E. Shapleigh
Columbia University
Fortune Teller tale of M Jonquelle detective
In a quiet study M Jonquelle, famed French detective, reads a Virginia crime diary about Peyton Marshall who stole his father's will for a $40 000 windfall to Gosford. The narrative follows how Gosford influenced Marshall, the lawyer Lewis, and the father, with a crystal gazing scene that hints at a looming misfortune and a potential return of the bequest to Marshall’s son.
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M. Jonquelle
Virginia
Peyton Marshall
Gosford
Lewis
Marshall
Great Britain
England
Mr. Gosford
Steels
Anthony Gosford
Peyton Jehall
Humphreys Remedies and a Foreign Will Twist
An ad for Dr Humphreys remedies promotes cures for colds to fever with mail orders from New York. A separate scene shows a courtroom style dispute where a will is altered with a magnifying glass revealing a forged 56 by erasing a 3 and adding a 6, revealing an impostor’s plan.
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Humphreys
Wiliam Street
New Yo
Cured Her Rheumatism at Home Says Mrs Hurst
Terrible rheumatism suffering led Mrs Hurst of Bloomington to discover a simple home remedy. She offers to share her method and free information by mail to anyone sending name and address. She promises prompt guidance to relief.
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Tom
Olivia
Ra. J
Hurst
Eougins Vt
Bloomington
How They Built Dams Across Sloughs on the Coast
In a recount from Mr. and Mrs. Calhoun, a single hired man and a narrator describe constructing brush and mud dykes across 40 to 60 foot wide sloughs. They explain layering trees and mud to form a tideproof wall while working through the night as tides rise and fall. The tale notes the absence of union rules, long hours, and the crews’ hunger after each successful fill.
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Mr. Calhoun
David
Seattle
New Brunswick
Colors in a Will Triggered by Acid in Tale Extract
In a tense parlor scene, old Gaeki uses acid to reveal hidden inks in a will. The color changes expose Mr. Gosford as a rogue, while the narrator celebrates solving the riddle and foreshadows another tale, “The Triangular Hypothesis,” in the next issue.
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M. Jonquelli
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Olivia IS
Freckles
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Pendleton
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Gaeki
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