Boffins Bees Disaster At Country Home
The Boffins move to the country and attempt beekeeping with seven hundred bees. A chaotic scene follows as bees swarm, pets flee, and the family ends with lost bees, medical mishaps, and a costly bee-raising fail. Spanger’s hive violence ends in a costly lesson about Italian bees and hiring a pro.
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Boffin
Mr. Spanger
Benjamin
Mr. Boffin
Mr. Boifin
Tom
Mr. H
Jones
The Sweetest Music From a Humble Singer’s Memory
A fragmented reminiscence recalls a mother’s voice soothing a child, the house quiet with lullabies, and a belief that the sweetest music comes from humble, hardworking souls. The speaker cherishes memories of family hymns and quiet evenings, envisioning heavenly harmony born of simple lives.
Singers and songs echo in Union Signal reading
A fragment notes aconte singer praise and memories of a mother's songs echoing in Union Signal. References to a Rosian Bird Stadt and a landowner studying migratory birds appear alongside remarks on American women and clothing.
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Adams
Union
Roscian
Stadt
Russia
Papa
George Cornwallis West
Aya
Chicago Record-Herald
Twenty little millionaires in Youth's Companion poem
Poem excerpt by Ethelwyn Wetherald titled Twenty little millionaires appears in Youth's Companion. The verses contrast rich youth with carefree play and future wealth, listing traits like health, dancing, and leisure as “millionaire” attributes while noting their young age and limited cares.
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Ethelwyn Wetherald
A Fun Tubophone From Waste Tubes For Simple Music
Brooklyn Eagle describes constructing a tubephone from eighteen pasteboard tubes of set lengths to form a major scale and expandable range. It guides tying cords, adding rods for handles, and mounting for horizontal play, noting the instrument yields a pleasing effect when played rapidly and extended with extra tubes.
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Brooklyn
Eage
Tallest of Animals Giraffe Description for Children
A reader asks about giraffes and a picture explains their height reaching 18 to 20 feet. The long neck gives the height, leaves are their main food, they have cloven hooves, and their pace is an amble. Gentle in captivity, they are found in zoos and enjoy hay, carrots, onions, and sugar.
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Africa
Zoological
Wanted Job as Boss by a Persevering 14 Year Old
A bright 14 year old boy seeks work and aims to become boss of a shipping house. After many rejections he asks to be considered as boss, noting it took the current proprietor 25 years to rise. He now packs and handles bundles, determined to lead the firm before aging whiskers appear.
Parrot Gift to the Duke of Wellington Remembered
An old lady after Waterloo gifted a parrot to the Duke of Wellington. He declined at first but allowed the bird to speak. The parrot cried See the conquering hero comes and the duke eventually accepted the gift. The parrot later lived in his room and earned a local reputation.
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Waterloo
Duke of Wellington
Polly
Queckett
Rooster Attack on Four-Year-Old in New Britain
A young boy in New Britain Connecticut, about four years old, chased a rooster with a stick. The bird cornered the boy, then attacked his face with its beak, causing him to fall down. Neighbors assisted in driving the maddened rooster away.
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Britain
Reunion tale recalls guerrilla war and a little captain
An elder recounts a Civil War episode where a town merchant joined the union home guard after guerrillas seized his goods. A young captain leads a creekside encounter, is captured, then freed after guerrillas decide it is cheaper to fight than feed him. The exchange ends with shared war memories and humor.
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Lincoln
Home Guard
Union
Maj. Josephs
Maj. Joseph
Foraging Escapade and Courtroom Anecdotes From Civil War Era
A Chicago Inter Ocean tale recounts a foraging misadventure by a Twenty-fourth New York man near Warrenton involving Extra Billy Smiths property and a rooster rescued under a hedge. It also notes a Georgia judge's bemused instruction to a jury and cites census figures showing New York natives in Chicago at 57,000 and Ohio natives at 51,000 with New England residents also present.
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New York
Chicago
Billy Smith
Mrs. Smith
Mandy
Gen. Pope
Senator Acon
South
Georgia
Chicago Chronicle
Ohio
New England
Indianapolis News
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Bees
Eoffin
Master Billy
Spanger
John
Little
Earnest Bey
Ccone
Army of the Potomac
Richmond
Warrenton
Extra Dilly Smith
Him
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