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| Publication | September 25, 1958 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: published every two weeks during the school year |
| Notes | The title uses the symbol for a music-note instead of the word "note". |
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| Cover | The ♪-Book [The Note-Book] |
| Featuring | The ♪-Book: A Story of Music [The Note-Book: A Story of Music] |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction |
| Notes | The title uses the symbol for a music-note instead of the word "note". |
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| Activity | The Unfinished Painting (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Three activities. An artist is painting a picture. Color yellow in 6; green in 5; light blue in 4; red in 3. The names of eight boys and girls are printed on the cards, but they are folded in half, so that you only see the top part of the letters. Can you still read the names? Finish the four portraits. |
| Featuring | Little Artists' Puzzle Page |
| Notes | Inside front cover. |
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| Synopsis | Burt is a musician in a jazz band. He explains the history of music to his younger brother and Arnie, who wants to be a musician when he grows up. Covers the origins of music from different civilizations. |
| Featuring | The ♪-Book: A Story of Music [The Note-Book: A Story of Music] |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: Arnie; Burt |
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| Comic Story | Chapter Two (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Frumson agrees to work at the circus to pay off the damages sustained to the strength-testing machine. There is plenty of work to do and he's exhausted, but he does a good job. Blackie and Gunboat are planning to steal the gate receipts from the circus. They give Frumson an impossible task to perform. They ask him to return the strong-man's weights to his dressing room after he finishes practicing, knowing he won't be able to even budge them. Their eyes practically pop out of their heads when they see him easily lifting both weights and asking where they should go. |
| Featuring | The Champ in the Circus! |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor | Characters: Frumson (The Champ) Wooters; Col. Horatio Hornbeam; Blackie Salter; Gunboat; Mr. Slade |
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| Synopsis | Stephen and Joe left Hungary with their family after the Russians sent troops into their country to put down the people's revolt against communism. They settled in Michigan and are getting used to life in the USA, but it's difficult. They are used to hearing propaganda in school back in Hungary and don't know what to make of this new country where they are not told what to think and do. Joe is having an especially hard time adjusting. Stephen plans on understanding what's going on, while Joe plans to fight. |
| Featuring | Let Freedom Ring! |
| Content | Genre: Drama | Characters: Stephen Esterhazy; Joe Esterhazy |
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| Featuring | Joke… Page |
| Content | Genre: Humor |
| Notes | Four single-panel gags. |
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| Comic Story | There's Nothing To Do and Everybody's Bored on a Rainy Afternoon (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | Patsy has some friends over and everyone is bored. It's raining outside and they can't think of anything to do. Aunt Eileen thinks of a "game" they can all play. They all went out and found people that needed to have things done in or around their house, but weren't able to physically perform the task themselves, or couldn't afford to do it. |
| Featuring | Patsy Manners |
| Content | Genre: Drama | Characters: Patsy Manners; Aunt Eileen |
| Notes | In a departure from the usual Patsy Manners stories, she doesn't give directions for making anything and one issue with four pages isn't big enough to contain all the action in this story. Continued next issue. |
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| Featuring | You're Important! |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Religious |
| Notes | Text article with four accompanying illustrations. |
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| Synopsis | Mike Kelly wants to relax after a hard day of "man's work", but he can't find anyone with free time. Teddy and Sally have homework and Joe has to help with laundry. He tries to hang out with Dutch and his friends, but when they go into a bar, the bartender won't allow him in, because he's still a minor. The ham radio just has static tonight due to the rainy weather. Mike gets called into work in the morning to help on the levee. There's danger of flooding and lots more rain is expected. Chuck shows up at the construction site, but Mike wants nothing to do with him. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Chuck White; Mike Kelly; Joe Kelly; Ma Kelly; Pa Kelly; Dutch Berger; Teddy; Sally |
| Notes | Max Pine was an alias of Frank Moss, per 2006 interview with Frank Borth: "You can find out in reading your things he also uses the word Max Pine as a substitute for him because he didn't want them to think he was writing everything in the place..." http://cuislandora.wrlc.org/islandora/object/cuislandora%3A40849 |
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| Comic Story | Bird of Prey (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Hannibal buys a piece of modern art so he can use it as a television aerial. |
| Featuring | Hannibal Bear |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Anthropomorphic-funny Animals |
| Notes | inside back cover; pantomime gag-strip told in five panels. |
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| Publisher advertisement | Wanted! (1 page) |
| Synopsis | The back cover is a wanted poster with headshots featuring six of Treasure Chest's most popular personalities for 1958-1959. |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Characters: Terry Brennan; Chuck White; Hannibal Bear; Pierre; Frumson Wooters; Patsy Manners |
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