Building a Tivoli board from "A Big Book Of Hobbies", circa 1920s?

Hobbies catalogue : for the man who likes to make things
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WorldCat list this book as being first published in the 1920s.

Examples of games like the design above, often labeled "Tivoli Game of Chinese  Billiard", but these use a cue to push the balls and not a springed plunger.