Cynthianna Blythe

A Sunday newspaper comic strip with drawings by Wallace Morgan and verses by Harry Grant Dart. The narrative follows young Cynthia's small-scale retail ventures—a competing "keeping store" operation and later a soap-box counter—through eight numbered panels. Speech balloons and sequential frames depict neighborhood commerce, rivalry between Cynthia and Bob Jenks, and comic complications involving inventory and customer disputes. The strip exemplifies the newspaper Sunday page format that bridged Victorian illustrated serials and modern comics, establishing conventions of panel layout, character continuity, and word-image integration that shaped sequential art's development.