The Child and the East Indies Clipper Meeting
A boy guides a youth to a shipyard in the East Indies region and a shopfront, forging a plan to help with his father’s errands. The youth arrives at the shop with a fatherly letter but discovers the money is missing, leaving him frightened and unsure how to proceed.
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East Indies
Jack
Cork Fun And A City Lost In A Wharf Tale
A child-friendly cork craft idea invites readers to save corks and build figures as the Korkins. A drifting narrative follows a lost boy in a bustling city, seeking help after losing money, encountering wary women, and finally a kind stranger offering aid.
By a fading fire a nostalgic verse
A poem by Douglas Malloch from 1929 reflects on memories stirred by a fading fire. The speaker recalls old faces and places, comforted by thoughts that return as the flames waver.
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Douglas Malloch
Some Good Things to Eat by Nellie Maxwell
A vintage food column presents recipes such as Indian Pudding with corn meal flour molasses sugar egg and spices baked three hours with suet and fruit. Uxbridge Lemon Pie combines lemon juice rind sugar water butter and cornstarch with two crusts. Popovers use eggs milk water and pastry flour beaten smooth and baked in hot pans.
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Nellie Maxwell
Uxbridge
Western Newspaper Union
Margery Hollister Finds Note of Love in North Woods
Margery Hollister rebels against her parents and plans a new life in the north woods with Peter. A camp proposal unites couple under rugged nature as they paddle home for supper.
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Margery
Peter
Montreal Express
Margery Hollister
Fairyland
Jim
North Woods
What Future Wives Should Know
An aged voice outlines a proposed school to train women as good wives and happy partners. It emphasizes choosing a worthy partner by character, virtues, and respect for women, plus practical home skills, selflessness, tact, and child psychology to understand men.
What Does Your Child Want to Know
Barbara Bourjail answers a child’s question about chlorophyll giving leaves their green color. The piece mentions various plants from oak to daffodil and notes copyright.
Traveling through the South in Fred Barton’s diary
Fred Barton shares a travel journal with humor on a Southern journey. He notes meals with cornbread and biscuits, references General Grant’s 1861 visit, observations of hotel dining, and whimsy about towel designs and phonograph-like stoves. He remarks on a sunflower garden, canaries, and dusty roads while seeking a drink from a waiter.
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South
Grant
London Paper Blasts American Movies for Slang Influx
A London paper criticizes American made sound films for teaching British children slang such as boob gink simp gap and dumbell. It calls the slang Greek to elders and warns of changing speech patterns among the youth.
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London
Gink
Simp
Gap
Dumbell
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By Jean Newton
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