Penrod's Revolver Dream Ends In a Harrowing Lesson
Penrod Schofield yearns for a real pistol and with Sam Williams steals a loaded Colt from Sam's father. A kitchen table plan leads to a reckless shootout in the Williams stable injuring no one but exposing the boys to danger and adult scrutiny. Sam escapes the blame as Penrod confronts the grim consequences and vows never to handle a gun again.
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Penrod Schofield
Penrod
Charlie
Mike
Washington
Bing
Sam Williams
Della
Bella
Duke
Sim
Comrad Sam Williams
Sam
Evert
Sin
Mr. Williams
Colt
Mrs. Williams
Mr. Schofield
Penred
Williams
Papa
Yun
Europe
First White Boy At Helm In Columbus Voyage Mystery
A historical note recalls the sole boy aboard Columbus 1492 voyage who was blamed for the Santa Maria wreck. He stayed at the helm while captains slept, yet fate and records offer only fragments about his identity and ultimate fate in La Navidad.
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Superiore
Santa Maria
America
Haiti
Columbus
West Indies
Deek
la Navidad
Spain
Meat or Shucks Crackers and Farm Life Musings
A Farm Life note from Vincent reflects on cracking butternuts with growing arm strength. He contemplates meat or shucks and the chance of an empty hole, promising improvement and resilience for cranking the harder nut tomorrow.
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Vincent
The Sandwich Man Origin Story by Dickens
The term sandwich man refers to street peddlers who walk between two boards bearing ads. Dickens is credited with coining the nickname in Sketches by Boz, though the practice likely began in the nineteenth century.
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Dickens
Boz
Concealed Weapons and Home Front Banter
A brief from Edmund J. Kiernan Life reflects on wartime home front chatter. The Crosbys donate their sedan to the Red Cross while society figures tease the major in uniform and praise a veteran woman’s service.
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Red Cross
Miss Veryplain
The Color Glass to Break Camouflage
An American physicist suggests that camouflage can be overcome by airmen using colored glasses or screen filters with field glasses. By selecting proper colors, uniforms and objects may appear in contrast rather than harmony with surroundings, potentially making camouflage ineffective.
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Popular Mechanices Magazine
Lesson in Thorough Bass and a Kaiser Lesson
The Brooklyn Eagle notes the presidents Thanksgiving proclamation uses the word stuff to create harmony in rhetoric. It compares Blaine as the plumed knight to a white feather and warns of misreading the phrase. The piece ends by saying the Kaiser could learn a thing from thorough bass.
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Brooklyn Eagle
James G. Blaine
Ingersoll
Blaine
Should Eat Mushrooms Says NY Botanist
William A. Murrill assistant director of the New York Botanical Gardens says wild mushrooms should be more used in the country now that food is scarce. He urges teaching people to distinguish poisonous from wholesome varieties as wild mushrooms are commonly eaten only by foreign-born residents.
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William A. Murrill
New York Botanical Gardens
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