Buried Treasure/A Tisket a Casket, or The Bury Box

The Frosbite Falls Picayune is going out of business because they produce thousands of copies of the newspaper, but only sell 25. It is decided that they needed a contest. So the owner buries a million dollars in Confederate money and puts clues in the paper. Pretty soon, the entire town is being dug up. But something even more threatening is going on when our friend Boris arrives. The fairy tale this time is "The Frog Prince" where an oversupply of witches is making victims hard to find. One particular frog gets the full business. Peabody goes to Scotland yard where someone has stolen the Crown Jewels and the Tower of London.

. . . "little John and Ann" during his Corner titled THANKSGIVING DAY. This 12-verse poem by Lydia Maria Child, originally published in 1844, sometimes is called by its opening line, "Over the river and through the woods." Lydia refers to the holiday visit vehicle as a "one-horse sleigh," because Studebakers had not yet been popularized in her day. Since the American moose largely confines himself to the first stanza of Lydia's ditty, he never gets around to little John and Ann. Neither does Lydia offer much in the way of explanation, merely mentioning the pair a single time. Was John "little" because he was younger than Ann, or did he have some sort of medical condition? We may never know.

. . . in how the beginning of The Bullwinkle Show's BURIED TREASURE saga anticipates the major developments of the following 65 years in the field of Real Life American journalism. The first part of BURIED TREASURE deals with a failing local newspaper, the Frostbite Falls, MN Picayune Intelligence-er. Getting readers to pony up a nickel for only one of every 2,000 copies of the paper printed, the Picayune is teetering on the brink of bankruptcy. This will sound quite familiar to any working journalist in 2024. Foreshadowing the transition to a "cold press," the Picayune proprietor begins printing issues on hot cakes and unsold back copies. Anyone who has sampled the actual papers of 2024 will find this film innovation to be an extremely accurate forecast for the quality of so-called "hard copies" of newspapers Today. Many people aver that the Wall Street Journal is best read with maple syrup. To each his own.