American literature -- 19th century -- Periodicals; Sunday schools -- United States -- Periodicals
Cultivates delicate handling and ingenuity.
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Puzzle Map of the United States, on oblong paper blocks to be matched
together. Price 25 cents; for 30 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 6
cents.
Teaches what we elders need to study—where the States are.
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The Frisky Cow. Price 50 cents; for 60 cents in new subscriptions.
Postage 44 cents—express may be less. Size 6 by 8 by 12 inches.
For little people. Johnny rolls the ball and hits the knob on the
right, rings a bell and counts 10. Susan hits the middle knob, counts
20, and the cow jumps over the moon.
[Illustration]
One of the jolliest toys we know of.
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Shadow Transformations. Price 25 cents; for 30 cents in new
subscriptions. Postage 6 cents.
Figures cut out of cards cast shadows from any sort of light. The
shadows are silhouette pictures. The combinations are hundreds. There
is more fun in them than we can put on paper.
Stimulates invention and design; for nobody stops with these cards.
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Toy Money in a cash-box. Price 25 cents; for 30 cents in new
subscriptions. Postage 4 cents.
[Illustration]
The coins are printed card-board copies like the picture, only full
size.
“Playing store” teaches the little merchants a great deal more than
arithmetic; and how can they make change without money?
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Historiscope. Price $1; for $1.25 in new subscriptions. Postage 10
cents.
[Illustration: BRADLEY’S HISTORISCOPE]
A panorama of scenes in American history, with a brief “lecture.” You
turn that little crank, and the “lecture” explains the pictures.
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American Toy Village. Price $1; for $1.25 in new subscriptions. Postage
12 cents.
[Illustration]
The buildings etc., which are painted wood, may be arranged on the
lithographed “plan” as in the picture, or on a table, or lawn, or sand.
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Words and Sentences, a game, variations of which are known by several
other names, Logomachy, War of Words, etc. Price 25 or 50 cents; for
30 or 60 cents in new subscriptions. Postage 3 cents and 7 cents. Two
styles, one more substantial than the other and in wood box.
[Illustration: N A M E]
A family game by no means confined to children. Cultivates knowledge of
words and facility in their use.
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Checker Men. Price 10 cents; for 15 cents in new subscriptions. Postage
7 cents.
[Illustration]
Thirty double-face pieces 1¼ inches diameter.
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Halma. Price $1; for $1.25 in new subscriptions. Postage 22 cents.
[Illustration]
“The only important board game purely of skill invented since checkers
and chess.” Introduced two years ago and said to be very popular. Large
flat folding paper board and box with men and instructions.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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