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The Weekly Telegram is a publication meant to please both old and young, consisting of both descriptive stories, illustrations and comics, and relative news from around the Nelson's imaginary world. This particular issue provides details and updates about the Allenstown Fair, "New Poplington News," and a list of prizes given out at the agricultural tent.

The Weekly Telegram is a publication meant to please both old and young, consisting of both descriptive stories, illustrations and comics, and relative news from around the Nelson's imaginary world. This particular edition includes a story about Ethan Allen's "Visit to the Coast," along with world news updates and various advertisements.

The Weekly Telegram is a publication meant to please both old and young, consisting of both descriptive stories, illustrations and comics, and relative news from around the Nelson's imaginary world. This particular edition includes a heartwrenching story about one-hundred soldiers getting killed, an extensive section on world news, a marvelous illustration of William Little, and a score for a new marching song written by Ethan Allen.

The Weekly Telegram is a publication meant to please both old and young, consisting of both descriptive stories, illustrations and comics, and relative news from around the Nelson's imaginary world. This particular issue focuses heavily on cutting-edge nautical technology, as well as the World's political economy with articles on unscrupulous polititians, elections, and the  income tax! It also has advertisements for drums, medicine, laundry detergent and of course, the Nelson Bros. Seeds Co.

The Weekly Telegram is a publication meant to please both old and young, consisting of both descriptive stories, illustrations and comics, and relative news from around the Nelson's imaginary world. This particular issue provides very detailed sections on news from different settlements, an "Editorials section, and an advertisement for "Nelson Bros. Cough Syrup."

The Voyage of the Francis is a short story about a sailboat that embarks on a fishing trip. The story-telling technique used by Arthur can be attributed to his young age. There are certainly elements of plot – a storm, fishing, jumping overboard, sleeping on a rock, playing an odd game of tag, etc. – but they seem to form only a skeletal story, made up primarily of movement from big event to big event, without much imagined emotion or transition in between.  

The brothers pasted stories printed in the popular press into their own six volume Trapper Scrapbook. With a hand press they print titles to the stories they have pasted in. THe Trapper Scrapbook contains "Attacked by Wolves," "Bravery Below the Surface," a cheeful comic called "The Story of a Clever Chap," poetry, and more entries focused on hunting and outdoor lifestyles.

The Trapper is a seemingly unfinished hunting periodical that possesses a mature writing style and gives the reader a hint of how the Nelson brothers constructed each page of their books. There is a box left empty in the center of the page for an illustration to be drawn after the story is finished. The story, "The Great Mountain Goldmine," describes two brothers' hunting trip before ending abruptly in the middle of a sentence.

Three Hunters of Big Wolf Lake is a tale about three orphaned brothers (Horace, Dick, James) who follow their fathers legacy and become hunters. The brothers must move back into the forest to endure the cold winter months, forced to hunt the proper game in order to survive.

The Rough It Club or The Gulf City Club  is a part of the "Lake Series" published by William Little. This story takes readers through the intense rivalry between Jimmy Allen of "The Gulf City Club" and Hatch Havard of "The Rose Buds." The two groups set out to capture a thief in hopes of receiving the reward of two thousand dollars and tension builds throughout their adventure.