The Missing Man Continues In The Wash Tub Mystery
In a Boston hair analysis and an aging detective thread, Constance Hamilton and Swan pursue clues about a missing husband. Primus Edes becomes a tentative ally as Perley disappears, and a rescue night ends with the child found safe in a forest hollow.
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Fit for Prize Ring by Richard Harding Davis in Philadelphia
Richard Harding Davis describes his Philadelphia reporting era among Ninth street fighters. He recalls dining with a third rate pugilist in a typical boardinghouse where a stern landlady questions a steak carved with dramatic humor. The anecdote ends with the fighter praising the steak as overtrained muscle despite its toughness.
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When a Thing Is Lost in Harper's Weekly Tale
A humorous verse notes how objects vanish from sight yet seem to hide and chuckle. The speaker admits guilt when things vanish and imagines the missing items aware of our frantic search, mocking human fuss. The tone echoes light, reflective whimsy typical of Harper's Weekly prose poetry.
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Harper's Weekly
Dainty Dude and Dirty Desperado Play Out Dallied Tale
A fragmented narrative blends a children’s game with a rhyming poem about Dainty Dude and Dirty Desperado. The prose shifts from a playground description to a stylized, repetitive exchange of dots and deeds, detailing actions and comic mischief around a stuck-into and dropped treasure of dummy dollars. The piece portrays playful schemes, pursuit, and a detective close on the trail.
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Dell
Dorothy
Dellars
Dirty Desperado
Vintage Toy Garden Tricks With Cucumbers And Apples
The article describes making toy horses from small cucumbers or crook necked squashes with matchsticks as tegs and tails, plus using wax or tinfoil to imprint names on rosy apples. It also suggests a bottle grape curiosity by placing ripe grapes inside a bottle with a narrow neck and sealing for preservation.
Names in Syria Reflect Birth Events and Ancestral Offense
The article notes Syrian children bear names tied to birth moments or events, and names are changed if illness occurs. It explains anger among children leads to insults aimed at a rival’s forebears, sometimes extending to ancestors farther back.
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Syria
Sound producing light rainbow experiment described
The article explains a sunbeam experiment where light through a lens into a glass vessel with silk or wool makes sounds as the beam flashes. A prism alters light into a spectrum. different colors produce varying tones, with red and green combinations yielding louder sounds and other colors producing little to none. It notes green silk sounds best under red light and cites Golden Days. It ends with a Scots game called cat in the hole offering playful sport.
Vegetable Dolf Babies From Corn Husks And Ears
Homemade dolls can be crafted from corn husks by tying threads at the neck and waist, twisting husk pieces for arms, and winding thread for stiffness. Dresses and hats use husk, corn silk hair. a second doll uses a corn ear body with a hollowed green apple head, corn silk hair, husk clothes, and silk sash.
Globe Party Game Description
A handkerchief is tossed while shouting Europe. A timekeeper counts to ten and the receiver names a European place river mountain person or thing before ten ends. If correct, they give the next test. if not or unable, a forfeit is paid. Players must stay alert as the thrower may aim away.
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Europe
Water Clock From Bent Glass Tubes and Jet Drops
A Victorian era water clock device uses two bent glass tubes aligned oppositely with jets formed by heated ends. Water from a suspended chimney flows through tiny drops, marking time by visual level changes every 15 minutes or less, using corks, rubber stoppers, and an Argand lamp chimney to drive the mechanism.
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