https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/ Personal effects of "a mad genius" by Craig Conley. en-us Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 EDT Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 EDT webmaster@oneletterwords.com (Craig Conley) webmaster@oneletterwords.com (Craig Conley) Copyright 2026 Craig Conley. All rights reserved. https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=113184 <table width="100%" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td><div><span>From </span><em>Hobbies Weekly</em><span>, </span>1949.</div> <div align="center"> <br> <table width="800" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr> <td class="content"> <img width="800" height="1004" src="https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/assets/1766177236.4408.8790.jpg" border=0><br> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="800" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr> <td class="content"> <img width="800" height="1115" src="https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/assets/1766177240.8325.9052.jpg" border=0><br> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <br><br></td></tr></table> Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 EDT https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=113184 https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=109237 <table width="100%" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td><div>From <em>Wee Wisdom</em>, 1939.</div> <div align="center"> <br> <table width="800" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr> <td class="content"> <img width="800" height="806" src="https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/assets/1751225713.1932.6361.jpg" border=0><br> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <br><br></td></tr></table> Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 EDT https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=109237 https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=102890 <table width="100%" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td><div>From <em>The Beacon Introductory Second Reader, Animal Folk Tales</em> by James Fassett and illustrated by Charles Copeland, 1912.</div> <div align="center"> <br> <table width="800" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr> <td class="content"> <img width="800" height="580" src="https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/assets/1727039127.6111.7126.jpg" border=0><br> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <br><br></td></tr></table> Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 EDT https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=102890 https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=100009 <table width="100%" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td><div>From <em>The Strand</em>, 1894.</div> <div align="center"> <br> <table width="800" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr> <td class="content"> <img width="800" height="888" src="https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/assets/1716742824.0517.5168.jpg" border=0><br> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <br><br></td></tr></table> Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 EDT https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=100009 https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=100975 <table width="100%" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td><div>From <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search-alias=aps&amp;field-keywords=Children%20of%20the%20Dawn%20Evan%20Davies&amp;tag=blueraycom&amp;link_code=wql&amp;_encoding=UTF-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener"></a><em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search-alias=aps&amp;field-keywords=Children%20of%20the%20Dawn%20Evan%20Davies&amp;tag=blueraycom&amp;link_code=wql&amp;_encoding=UTF-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Children of the Dawn</a></em> by Evan Davies and illustrated by Cyril Cowell, 1938.</div> <div align="center"> <br> <table width="800" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr> <td class="content"> <img width="800" height="598" src="https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/assets/1720815894.7217.8939.jpg" border=0><br> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <br><br></td></tr></table> Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 EDT https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=100975 https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=99435 <table width="100%" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td><div>"The Sphinx in all our lives."  From <em>The Children's Newspaper</em>, 1939.</div> <div align="center"> <br> <table width="800" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr> <td class="content"> <img width="800" height="167" src="https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/assets/1714937303.3375.1110.jpg" border=0><br> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <br><br></td></tr></table> Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 EDT https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=99435 https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=95894 <table width="100%" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td><div>From <em>Junior English Activities Book Three</em> by Hatfield, Lewis, Besig &amp; Borchers (undated, c. 1938).</div> <div align="center"> <br> <table width="800" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr> <td class="content"> <img width="800" height="1073" src="https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/assets/1700256226.0184.3672.jpg" border=0><br> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <br><br></td></tr></table> Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 EDT https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=95894 https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=90194 <table width="100%" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td><div>"The light was so bright that the mole could not look upon it."  From <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search-alias=aps&amp;field-keywords=Little%20Ugly%20Face%20coolidge&amp;tag=blueraycom&amp;link_code=wql&amp;_encoding=UTF-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener"></a><em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search-alias=aps&amp;field-keywords=Little%20Ugly%20Face%20coolidge&amp;tag=blueraycom&amp;link_code=wql&amp;_encoding=UTF-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Little Ugly Face</a></em> by Florence Claudine Coolidge and illustrated by Maud &amp; Miska Petersham, 1933.</div> <div align="center"> <br> <table width="800" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr> <td class="content"> <img width="800" height="584" src="https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/assets/1682003221.5187.6906.jpg" border=0><br> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <br><br></td></tr></table> Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 EDT https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=90194 https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=76568 <table width="100%" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td><div>From <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search-alias=aps&amp;field-keywords=Don%20Diego%2C%20or%20The%20Pueblo%20Indian%20Uprising%20of%201680%20reagan&amp;tag=blueraycom&amp;link_code=wql&amp;_encoding=UTF-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener"></a><em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search-alias=aps&amp;field-keywords=Don%20Diego%2C%20or%20The%20Pueblo%20Indian%20Uprising%20of%201680%20reagan&amp;tag=blueraycom&amp;link_code=wql&amp;_encoding=UTF-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Don Diego, or The Pueblo Indian Uprising of 1680</a></em> by Albert Reagan, 1914.</div> <div align="center"> <br> <table width="800" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr> <td class="content"> <img width="800" height="935" src="https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/assets/1653250567.1297.2754.jpg" border=0><br> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <br><br></td></tr></table> Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 EDT https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=76568 https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=85510 <table width="100%" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td><div>From <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search-alias=aps&amp;field-keywords=Rip%20Van%20Winkle%20and%20The%20Legend%20of%20Sleepy%20Hollow&amp;tag=blueraycom&amp;link_code=wql&amp;_encoding=UTF-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener"></a><em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search-alias=aps&amp;field-keywords=Rip%20Van%20Winkle%20and%20The%20Legend%20of%20Sleepy%20Hollow&amp;tag=blueraycom&amp;link_code=wql&amp;_encoding=UTF-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow</a></em> by Washington Irving and illustrated by George H. Boughton, 1907.</div> <div align="center"> <br> <table width="800" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr> <td class="content"> <img width="800" height="1153" src="https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/assets/1671550368.4169.4359.jpg" border=0><br> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <br><br></td></tr></table> Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 EDT https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=85510 https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=89718 <table width="100%" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td><div>From Purdue University's 1968 yearbook.</div> <div align="center"> <br> <table width="800" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr> <td class="content"> <img width="800" height="1468" src="https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/assets/1680567002.0918.1605.jpg" border=0><br> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <br><br></td></tr></table> Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 EDT https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=89718 https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=74429 <table width="100%" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td><div>"Millions now living will never die."  From the <em>Duluth Herald</em>, 1920.</div> <div align="center"> <br> <table width="800" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr> <td class="content"> <img width="800" height="86" src="https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/assets/1645385808.588.8506.jpg" border=0><br> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <br><br></td></tr></table> Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 EDT https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=74429 https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=89819 <table width="100%" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td><div>From <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search-alias=aps&amp;field-keywords=Great%20Inventors%20and%20Their%20Inventions%20bachman&amp;tag=blueraycom&amp;link_code=wql&amp;_encoding=UTF-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener"></a><em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/?url=search-alias=aps&amp;field-keywords=Great%20Inventors%20and%20Their%20Inventions%20bachman&amp;tag=blueraycom&amp;link_code=wql&amp;_encoding=UTF-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Great Inventors and Their Inventions</a></em> by Frank Bachman, 1918.</div> <div align="center"> <br> <table width="800" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr> <td class="content"> <img width="800" height="610" src="https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/assets/1680928095.5784.1087.jpg" border=0><br> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <br><br></td></tr></table> Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 EDT https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=89819 https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=91544 <table width="100%" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td><div>From Western Reserve University's 1941 yearbook.</div> <div align="center"> <br> <table width="800" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr> <td class="content"> <img width="800" height="1461" src="https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/assets/1685226951.4309.4577.jpg" border=0><br> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <br><br></td></tr></table> Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 EDT https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=91544 https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=76105 <table width="100%" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td><div>"Like tacks, we can go no farther than our heads will let us."  From <em>The Improvement Era</em>, 1958.</div> <div align="center"> <br> <table width="800" border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr> <td class="content"> <img width="800" height="839" src="https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/assets/1651823332.1285.9574.jpg" border=0><br> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <br><br></td></tr></table> Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 EDT https://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=76105