How He Got Up So High and What He Is Doing
A quaint folk tale about a brown haired man with a saw who piles wood until a tower reaches the moon. He climbs to the top and continues sawing, smiling as the moonlit scene endures in memory.
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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1908
Page
7
Musical Mystery Game Story Of Hidden Musical Terms
An engaging party game where guests fill in blanks with musical terms. The tale describes a family linked to a newspaper, with clues like minor Major staff note rest time natural theme pitch sharp solo melody flat tune and ends with a prize of a sheet of music for clever solvers.
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John Smith
Smith
John
Who's It For Spoons in a Circle Game
In this game one person stands center blindfolded with spoons. Others march around, clap to a tune. At the call Spoons the blind player touches players with the spoons to identify them. If correct, the guessed player is blindfolded and the round restarts.
Riddles About Silks Books Boats and Mont Blanc
A sequence of whimsical comparisons links silks to clouds books to holy days and schools to ropes. The jokes hinge on puns like taut and capsized piqued and peak.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mont Blanc
When Jimmy Dreams of Tea and Cake Sampling
In a playful conversation Jimmy asks what his father does and learns he is a tea sampler. He then declares his ambition to be a cake sampler when he grows up, sharing a child’s whimsey about flavors and treats.
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Jimmy
The Sickroom Cleaning With Poisonous Disinfectants
The article prescribes drastic disinfection after contagious diseases using bichloride of mercury on furniture walls floors and windows. It includes making a strong solution, washing all items, sealing cracks, and burning sulfur to fill the room with smoke. Cautions note bichloride of mercury is deadly poison.
Freshen Up Furs with Bran Rub and Brush
Readers learn a Russian method to revive dead looking furs stored for summer. Heat rye bran, rub it thoroughly into the fur, then brush and shake out the bran particles. The process restores luster to dark furs and makes white furs look like new.
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Technical World Magazine
How to Grow Palms Successfully
The Cleveland Plain Dealer notes there is no secret to palm growth just understanding habits and needs. Ensure drainage and soil type, and water correctly, repot if brown tips signal wet, clogged soil. Place in strong light avoiding direct sun, water when the surface dries, and occasionally flush foliage.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
How to Put on a Corset
The guide advises fastening abdominal hooks with a long breath and head back to place flesh properly. Then tighten the lower corset via looped eyelet laces, pulling the bottom tighter than the top to permit healthy breathing while keeping the figure taut at the waist and hips.
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New York American
How to Save Trousers From Wear and Wrinkles
How to save trousers instructs cutting a broom to fit under a closet shelf then padding with cotton batting and black cambric. A loop at ends and tacks on the shelf hold a covered stick to hang trousers by creases, keeping them neat and looking new.
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Wen
How to Corn Beef Brine at Home
Make a brine with three quarts water one cup salt half a cup brown sugar and a hazelnut size saltpeter. Boil, cool, pour over chosen meat in a jar and soak five to six days. After using this method you will never buy corned beef ready made.
Speak gently to the timid presidential boom
A poetic meditation warns that a presidential boom, now full of life and loud rhetoric, may quickly fade. It compares the surge to a fragile sign of hope that can collapse, leaving leaders unable to sustain invites or support.
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White House
Broadway couples pledge true love amid cigarette clash
A scene on Broadway shows a couple discussing their marriage, with the bride promising to quit smoking for her partner, signaling a genuine love match despite the tabloid tone.
Be sure you are right and then go ahead edition
Amended edition quotes advise caution before action. A dialog hints at legal steps to prove correctness. The exchange mentions hiring a lawyer to establish being right, and signals updating to the latest version.
Forgive Them Depends on Who Advertises Me
Dialogue notes ask if loving enemies depends on who they are. The speaker admits warmer feelings for those who advertise them, implying leverage affects affections.
Old West quip about flatiron earnings
A dated exchange frames a joke about a Chinese man allegedly losing money earned with a flatiron. The brief dialogue uses racial stereotype language typical of historical humor and reflects period attitudes rather than a factual event.
Not harmonious with my purse gown remark
A witty exchange as one guest compliments a new gown and another replies the gown is elegant but clashes with the purse. The quip reveals humor about fashion and finances in a light social moment.
Money Talks and Gossip in Quiet Exchange
In a brief exchange a speaker asserts money speaks for itself while another notes money never shares gossip. The remark underscores wealth as a blunt influence rather than a social rumor mill.
Leap year jitters as young men wait for hopeful proposals
In the present moment, young men fret while girls have yet to take the initiative. The situation hints at delayed matchmaking as leap year progresses and practice remains absent for proposals.
PERT PARAGRAPHS
A witty meditation on human vibes and manners noting some seem alive while others feel dead. It contrasts polished etiquette with irritations of living up to courtesy and the itch of doing as one pleases without conflict. The piece touches on desire, self dependence, and a lawyer’s mercenary basis.
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