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Title: St. Nicholas [serial]
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children’s literature
Publisher: [New York : Scribner & Co.]
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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ound volumes of you, and take you in commonly. There are fiveof us — three boys and two ladies. I’m the youngest however one. Ilove your division Books and Reading, for I’m an excellent book-worm. I’ve a Brownie digital camera, butdo not take adequate photographs tosend to you. I hope to some day,although. I stay, your devoted reader,Gertrude Madge (age 12). Stockholm, Sweden.My expensive St. Nicholas: I’m anAmerican woman staying in Stockholmfor the winter. It may be very attention-grabbing,and there are quite a bit of fairly nationaldances and costumes. I’ve onecalled Riittviks. The sports activities aremostly skating, and skeeing, whichis very amusing. I visited an oldSwedishcastle(Orbyhus), and I sawthe jail of King Erik XIV. Itwas constructed of thick stone partitions, andover the previous stone hearth he hadwritten some verses. There werethree rooms which he had for him-self. His brother ordered the prison-keeper to provide him poison in a dishof pea-soup, and he died in theprison. Your loving reader,Gladys Virginia Steuart (age 12).
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MAY Other attention-grabbing and appreciative letters have been acquired fromGladys Hodson, Josephine Stiven, Theodosia D. Jessup, Marie V.Scanlan, Henry C. Hutchins, Thomas H. De Cator, Ellen M. Saxe,Edna Stevens, Margaret Colgate, Muriel M. Ok. E. Douglas, KarlDodge, Arthur M. Stevens, Florence Doane, Laura Whittlesey,Lucy E. Wheelock, Carolyn L. Palmer, Frances S. Usher, HarveyDeschere, Agnes Lowe, Beth Howard, Avis Ingalls, Rose Butler,Margaret Dobson, Fayetta Crowley, Gerald Pyle, Olive A. Granger,Harold H. Davis, S. F. Moodie, E. Lawrence Palmer, ShirleyWillis, and Helen Ranney Sholes. PRIZE COMPETITION NO. 56. The St. Nicholas League awards gold and silverbadges every month for the perfect poems, tales, drawings,pictures, puzzles, and puzzle-answers. Also cashprizes of 5 {dollars} every to gold-badge winners whoshall once more win first place. Competition No. 56 will shut May 20 (for foreignmembers May 25). The awards will probably be announcedand prize contributions printed in St. Nicholas for
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St. Paul’s Hospital Competition
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The rear view of the St. Paul’s Hospital Competition postcard displaying directions and circumstances of entry. For the obverse view see hyperlink.
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Image from page 892 of “St. Nicholas [serial]” (1873)
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Identifier: stnicholasserial31dodg
Title: St. Nicholas [serial]
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children’s literature
Publisher: [New York : Scribner & Co.]
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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supply-ing nourishment, energy, and refreshmentâforthe drained physique and wearied mind. Tempting to the urge for food, andbesides quenching the thirst, is extra nutritious than different fountaindrinks. As a lightweight luncheon or desk beverage, it’s relished by every-one, previous or younger, and is extra invigorating than tea, espresso, or cocoa. Pure, wealthy milk and the extract of chosen malted grain, in powder kind.Ready in a second by merely stirring in water. A nourishing, simply assimi-lated meals in impaired digestion, satisfying with out leaving any distressedfeeling. A glassful taken scorching upon retiring, brings refreshing sleep. In Lunch Tablet kind, additionally, with chocolate. A pleasant confection farhealthier than sweet. At all druggists. Sample, or Vest Pocket Lunch Tablet case, mailed free upon request.Our Booklet offers many beneficial recipes, and can also be despatched free, if talked about.Ask for HORLICKS; others are imitations. Horlicks Food Company, Racine, Wis., U. S. A. London, England. Established 1873.
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Montreal. Canada. THE ST. NICHOLAS LEAGUE. Fill out the blanks in order to make any of these three Stanzas right into a rhymed commercial: There was as soon as an Who declared that All the world cried directly:What an ignorant dunce!For the are city strive frown reply plain sought sane purchased . relaxation good . finest understood. Report on Competition No. 37.PRIZE-WINNERS. Five Prizes of .00 every : Five Prizes of .00 every : Nina H. Burnham (14), Prides Crossing, Mass. Dorothy Webb Abbott (15), New York, N Mary W. Woodman (17), Cambridge, Mass. Marion E. Lane (15), Honesdale, Penn. Anna Sellers (17), Edge Moor, Del. Hilda Kohr (13), Washington, D. C. Gabrielle Elliott (13), New York, N. Y. Blanche Bloch (13), Starkville, Miss. Ella E. Preston (15), Davenport, Iowa. Fannie Crawford Golding (16), Dunbar, Miss. Y. Five Prizes of .00 every :Adah Knight (17), Jamaica Plain, Mass.May Henderson Ryan (14), Caliente, Calif.Bessie Townley Griffith (16), Newport, R. I.Ruth H. Keigwin (14), Mount Vernon, N. Y.Phili
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