Alphabet Soup, a new store that offers toys, games, puzzles, art supplies and books, will soon open on Corning's Market Street. Nat Katsiouleris, Alphabet Soup manager, said the store hopes to open ...

A clever inventor made a rare toy now called "Alphabet Man" or "The Educator," although it was called "The Yankee Schoolmaster" in the original 1889 patent papers. The 10-inch-tall iron man had his ...

Some celebrities aren't just pretty faces. A few of them are also touched with that Yankee prowess for tinkering and invention. In this weekly series, we introduce you to the Patents of the Rich and ...

Educational toys aren’t a new idea. A rare 19th-century Yankee Schoolmaster toy — also known as the Alphabet Man — was offered in a recent auction. The toy was patented in 1884. Push a lever on the ...

A MUM was stunned when a Toys R Us singing alphabet dog she bought for her baby dropped the f-bomb. Chloe Angel, 26, spent £17.99 on the LeapFrog AlphaPup, which sings a "dog version" of nursery rhyme ...