This is
Volume 1, Issue
8 ----- August, 1997
of The KIDS MONTHLY Newsletter
Table of Contents:
FEATURE: Thomas Alva Edison: Part One
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Happy Birthday to ME! It's my birthday on August 14, and I'm just taking this chance to tell the world (okay, just the people that read this newsletter) that I'll be 13 years old.
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Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847-October 18, 1931) was born in Milan,
Ohio in a red-brick house overlooking the Huron River and the canal that
connected the river to Lake Erie. He was the youngest, with three older siblings,
the youngest of which was 13, the oldest was about to get married. He was
named Thomas after a great-uncle, and Alva in honor of a friend of his father's.
When he was young, he was usually called Alva, and his mother always called
him Al. He was unusual, in more than one way. He had a head that was large
compared to the rest of his body, and he hardly every cried; he seemed to
see the funny side of everything, and it looked like he tried to make everybody
else laugh, too. Years later, one of his friends said, "Even as a baby, Al
cracked jokes."
He was asking lots of questions as soon as he could talk, a lot of which
his parents and friends didn't know the answers to. He had lots of curiosity,
and it was always getting him into trouble.
He started school when he was eight, but he did not like to learn by memorizing,
which was how most of school was taught. He liked to ask questions and get
answers. After three months, he overheard the teacher saying that he couldn't
learn, and he went home and said that he would never go to school again.
His mother agreed with him, and she taught him at home from then on. He had
lessons every day, even in the summer, bet he didn't mind, because he liked
it.
Read more about Thomas Edison next month, in Part Two!
Got any good, clean, jokes and riddles? E-mail'em to me at:
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This month it's Food
Riddles:
What did the frog drink when he went on a diet?
Diet Croak.
What do call do in case of a hunger emergency?
Dine 11 (911).
Joe: I'm so hungry I could eat a horse.
Moe: I find that hard to swallow.
How does the worlds smallest person say goodbye?
With a microwave.
What happens when lettuce is arrested for a crime?
It's innocent until proven wilty.
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