The Indian Today Essay Makes Thomas Jones Write
A timid Thomas Jones fears failing his essay on The Indian Today. The family nurses his anxious mood, studies Hiawatha and Ra monda, and finally Great-aunt Jones orders him to write. In two hours he returns with six clean pages, praised for simple language and steady flow.
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Thomas Jones
Elsie Hill
St. Nicholas
Nice Little Game Two Person Board Strategy
Two players use nine pieces each on a diagrammed board with two colors. Players place pieces at junctions, then move along lines to form a row of three. Creating a row allows removing an opponent piece, with rules to avoid removing a row if a safer capture exists. The game ends when all opposing pieces are captured. When down to three pieces, hopping is allowed. Emphasizes corner play, blocking, and creating multiple lines by moving a piece back and forth.
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St. Louis Globe- Democrat
Dry brook dispute over farm sale exposed
A buyer confronts a real estate agent about a brook on a farm that ran dry all summer. The agent concedes, implying the brook had not run previously when dry, reflecting a onscreen exchange about alleged deception in the sale reported by the Philadelphia Press.
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Philadelphia Press
Mr. Reynard at Home Shows Fox Den Basics
St. Nicholas describes easy near city fox dens in New England woods. Hunters and farmers identify dens by earth, tracks, hair, and strong odor from young foxes. Visitors glimpse kits playing at a distance on bright mornings or afternoons.
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St. Nicholas
New England
The Busy Little Bee
The hive in summer buzzes with activity as bees toil for honey. A typical colony holds about 30 000 bees, yields around 57 pounds of honey in a good season, and requires thousands of blooms to produce a single pound. Wax is expensive to make, so bees store honey in six sided cells to economize wax.
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United States
Humorous Exchange From Yonkers Statesman
Mrs Crimsonbeak jokes about a husband who loses the keyhole at door and yet makes a racket inside the room, prompting Mrs Yeast to remark on his clumsy luck and apparent domestic bravado.
Smile and take it like a man column of verse
A compact verse column pairing two poems. The first, by C F Lester in Success, counsels resilience and composure after defeat, urging the reader to value effort over outcome. The second, by J B M Wright in Boston Budget, evokes twilight, memory, and solace as evening gathers and loved ones are recalled.
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C. F. Lester
J. B. M. Wright
Boston
A Soldier's Dream and Other Verses From 19th Century Echoes
A poetic collage features Harriet R. Goff recalling a veteran leader in a dream with images of chasseur and grenadiers. Chicago Daily Record notes the cyclopedic man who loved facts and deferred to a child’s questions. Persis Gardiner’s winter roses appear in Youth's Companion. A Good Housekeeping verse halts at a great-granddaughter and a vanished past in 1901.
Twilight Vision Over Marshes and Mountains
A poetic scene by Masian Phelps in National Magazine portrays sunset skies over distant mountains, mist rising above marshes, fireflies in gathering gloom, and a lonely whip-poor-will near the river. The piece evokes quiet, tender peace as troubled spirits settle.
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Masian Phelps
National Magazine
Each in His Own Way by S. E. Kiser in Chicago Times-Herald
Poem urges resilience and faith guiding readers to face sorrow with courage. It contrasts personal effort with divine guidance, encouraging new paths and practical reliance on God.
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S. E. Kiser
Chicago Times-Herald
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