Hurry Up Call UTH Doll Play Ends With Cologne Caper
A tale of two girls Ethel and Ruth playing doll stories in a home setting. They stage punishments for toy dolls and introduce a bottle of Cologne and tummy medicine, leading to a comic mishap. The mother interrupts uncovering the improvised remedy for tummy pains used on a doll.
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Uth
Ethel
Puth
Sato
Beatrice
Ruth
Ater
Sollles
Holg Ethel
Mamma
Mrs. Ethe
Flag Day In Japan Boys Celebrate May Fifth
In May the Japanese observe a boys day on May fifth. Boys display models of warriors standards and toy swords and engage in warlike games. The article notes girls celebrate on March third and promises more details.
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Japan
Hurry-Up Call in a Playroom and a Japanese Festival
A domestic scene shows two girls acting out a doctor visit with a faux medicine role and a suspicious cologne. It shifts to a Japanese festival of flags for boys, where paper or cloth carp floats on long bamboo poles to symbolize a boy’s rise and parental pride.
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Toklo
Tare
Pauls Circus Party Hat Birthday Plans
A mother helps 10-year-old Paul plan a circus themed birthday at home to celebrate during circus week. They design games like trunk placement, ring leader dress, peanut hunt and animal crackers. Invitations shaped as circus tents, decorations, and themed treats create a festive setup for a memorable party on Paul’s birthday.
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Paul
Mother
Eney
Chatterbox remembered in a playful mother tale
A nostalgic verse sketches a lively child who chats from dawn to dusk. It recalls a mother who supports free chatter and guides with gentle memory, likening the child to a joyous, spinning top and a "gay little chatter-box" in days gone by.
May History Birthstones and Birthdays Almanac
A dense May history list covers birthstones emerald and hawthorn flowers, landmark events from 1488 Manila Bay to statehood dates for Oklahoma and Wisconsin, plus multiple births of notable figures from Florence Nightingale to Queen Victoria and Dante.
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Dewey
Manila
Oklahoma
John Brown
Fort Meigs
Wirth
John Sherman
Blateaman
Ticonderoga
North
South Carolina
Minnesota
Charlestown
America
Jamestown
Society of Cincinnati
Florence Nightingale
Czar of
Russia
Mecklenburg
N.C
Stephen Girard
Enron
Queen Victoria
England
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Diaeth
E. Bulwer Lytton
Fort George
Dante
Julia Wardlowe
Thomas Moore
Rhode Island
Wisconsin
Patrick Henry
Joan of Arc
Johnstown
Tlood
Maple Syrup Tale Explains Sweet Spring Tradition
A mother reads to Jamie about how maple syrup is made from tree sap. They explain tapping, boiling, and evaporating water to produce syrup, noting Indians first learned the sap’s sweetness and contrasting old farm practices with modern syrup plants.
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Jamie
Courme
Jamin
Hig Farm
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Muth
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Ito
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Thia
Presidenta
Hvely Chilcon
Nina Uttera
Ttuasia
Angwer
Come
Willie John McGee
Mel
Willie Jad
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