Young Folks Puzzle How to Fit a Square Plank
A shipwright faces a hole 9 by 16 inches and a square 12 by 12 plank. He cuts the plank in steps and reassembles it to fill the oblong hole, illustrating a clever carpentry puzzle.
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Newspaper
Winthrop Sun And Visitor
Location
Winthrop, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1908
Page
6
Miniature Fireworks Made From Tin Foil In The Home
Simple parlor experiment uses a candle a clay pipe and strips of tin foil to create bright white globes that fuse and burn on a covered table. The method relies on flame heating the foil to melt and spray luminous drops in radiating lines for a pretty light show.
Wicked Thing a Game Played In Secret Among Players
A game describes one player as the wicked thing who hides while others move about singing a counting rhyme. The wicked thing appears at key moments and attempts to tag a player, who then becomes the captor in the next round.
Cat and Mouse Blindfold Game Recounts Prompt Pounce
In a village game two players, the cat and mouse, are bound to a post with strings and blindfolded. The mouse carves a nutmeg graters and grating sounds reveal the mouse’s location. The cat may pounce when close enough. When caught the roles reverse and a new mouse is selected.
The Telegraph Plant and Other Oddities
A short note describes a queer Indian shrub with trifoliate leaves that move like telegraph signals. leaves rise and fall alternately and are most active at dawn, varying with no wind. The piece also jokes about milk, a Boston baby fed on elephant milk, and a pun about President Roosevelt as the nation’s hymn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
Boston
President Roosevelt
America
The Dot Society Women Plot Wealth From Garden Labor
Alicia Nowlin Brown of New York and Charlotte Robeson and Louise Phillips of Boston form the Dot society to earn their own marriage dowries through farming in Newport and Northport. Twenty members would cultivate land, raise flowers and mushrooms, keep bees, and share profits in a summer plan. They seek independence from traditional gifts and insist earnings prove value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dot
Alicia Nowlin Brown
West Eighty-third Street
New York
Charlotte M. Robeson
Louise Gardner Phillips
Boston
Northport
N. Y
Dot Society
Det
Newport
Miss Brown
There are little tasks for you to do today
The verse urges personal responsibility and daily acts of kindness and effort. It emphasizes that small choices and actions shape a child’s growth, suggesting to start now with small challenges, climb hills, and strive for simple rewards earned through perseverance.
The Merry Widow Hat A Subway Grievance
A New York subway tale centers on a misbehaving Merry Widow hat causing friction between a wearer and other passengers. An irate strap hanger complains of a straw rim brushing the neck while the hat owner asserts the hat momentarily dominates the wearer in the crush by the car door.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Connecticut
Philadelphia
New York
Household Notes on Food and Household Care
Practical tips for the home include boiling peach kernels in milk to flavor custard and using coffee tinted water to wash curtains. Suggestions cover candle care on ice to burn evenly, floor polish from candle ends and turpentine, and making peanut butter by grinding browned peanuts with butter for spreading on bread.
Practical Laundry Bags for Travel and Home Use
Attractive and practical laundry bags combine brown crash with cretonne in tapestry designs. Upper two thirds are crash, bottom cretonne with hoop top. The design allows emptying from the bottom, making it very handy. Matching waste paper baskets fold for vacation use.
Ancient cosmetics traced from Jezebel to Roman flames
The article surveys historic vanity practices across civilizations noting Jezebel painting her eyes, Judith veiling armor, Roman belles dyeing hair blue and whitening with chalk. It cites Ovid Pliny and Juvenal on cosmetics, antimony's antiquity, and foreign uses from Greece to Egypt and Moorish women, highlighting enduring allure rituals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jezebel
Jehu
Judith
Empire
Pliny
Ohio
Juvenal
Greece
Rome
A Mother's Helper
A mother's helper guides a girl to manage daily chores at home. Tasks include plant care, table centerpiece hacks, stain removal, parsley garnish, rug tidying, furniture upkeep with beeswax, polishing doors and switches, and crafting wastebaskets. Wearing a white apron signals domestic polish and charm for fathers.
Printing for success in business advertising
The passage stresses the importance of quality printing for business communications not to appear on wrapping paper or casual sheets. It argues patrons judge by presentation and urges using proper, good paper and careful layout to convey credibility and attract customers.
Plain and Fancy Printing Advertisement
A printing shop promotes reliable service for all orders with a neat attractive top result. It highlights ample equipment a large variety of type and material and a competent staff ready to handle work. All orders left at the office will receive prompt attention.
Sun and Moon Legends Contrast Chinese Tale
In Chinese legend the sun is the younger sister and the moon the elder brother who guards his sister. The sun asks to roam at night and the moon forbids it, later telling her to pierce observers with golden needles to stop their gaze. This explains why people cannot look at the sun without pain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Health and Beauty Tips From a Past Column
Wellness guidance covers earache relief with warm salad oil and daily scalding of washcloths. Advice urges outdoor hours for children, careful sleep with sick relatives, and using cocoa butter for rough skin. Quick raw egg cautions for cuts and favoring bright, well lit rooms for children’s eyes and nerves.
Example Birds Teach Patience and Gratitude in Winter and Summer
A Home Note reflects on birds as symbols of human traits. The dove denotes innocence, the eagle majesty, and the robin teaches patience and gratitude through year round song despite harsh winters and bountiful summers.
Sothern Calms Laura Keene With Unexpected Compliment
In New York, before a early show Sothern quarreled with Laura Keene over a trivial matter. Keene’s tantrum led her to scold him backstage. Sothern stepped into the light and lowered the lamp. When Keene demanded an explanation he replied softly that her beauty unsettles him when she is angry and urged her to continue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sothern
Laura Keene
New York
Miss Keene
Laura
Fine old Spanish emeralds phrase origins noted
The New York Sun explains that no emeralds were mined in Spain. After the Peruvian conquest, Spaniards brought home vast loot including emeralds. The finest stones entered Spanish noble possession and became known as fine old Spanish emeralds, a term now applied to top emeralds from any source.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spain
Peru
Europe
New York Sun
Family quarrel on heredity and pockets of walnuts
A dialogue references belief in heredity as Mrs. Simpson asserts Bobby’s traits come from his father. The father counters that Bobby’s faults trace back to his mother. The text notes walnuts carried in the pocket supposedly cure rheumatism and toothache, a folk remedy mentioned in passing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Simpson
Bobby
The Commencement and the Word's Odd History
The piece notes how the term commencement once marked September degrees and later shifted to June, as colleges moved exercises to the end of the year. It mocks the ritual uses of the word and recalls past customs while praising the linguistic quirk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yesteryear
Boston Transcript
Ants Flood Indoors From Wall Nests In Bungalow Scene
A resident describes a sunset incident in an Indian bungalow where white ants in a wall nest swarmed out in a fountain-like jet. The insects covered tables, cloths, glassware, and lampshades, with wings shed over minutes. The next morning the swept wings filled a basket. The fate of the ants remains unknown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
The Prettiest Girl In the Town story tease
The Loudon Globe notes a forthcoming feature titled The Prettiest Girl In the Town. A hundred young ladies sent postcards urging the editor not to publish their real names.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ash. Paper
Loudon Globe
Brevity Debate Echoes in Historic Wits Exchange
A brief exchange quotes Kwater on brevity and an observer reply in the Philadelphia Press. The dialogue weighs wit against conciseness and pauses to consider merit in short expression.
Riddle on Twice Ten and Twice Eleven
A playful note argues that twice ten equals twenty and twice eleven equals twenty two with a pun on typos. It treats arithmetic as a wordplay puzzle rather than a formal calculation.
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Conundrums
Bummer
Bryant & Stratton Commercial School
Boylston Street
Moé
H. E.‘ Hibbard
Boylston ST
David Cummings
the Cummings CO
Washington St
Health and Beauty
Kwater
the Observer
Philadelphia Press
Lewis Block, Winthrop
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