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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1958
Page
9
A magazine article notes rising betting at horse race tracks as the two dollar mutuel ticket remains popular. It also shares a quirky tidbit about Australian aborigines eating ants, suggesting ants are the main dish of a picnic.
The page presents a two column puzzle of horizontal and vertical clues with numbered entries covering meanings from food fish to mountain passes and musical instruments. Answers include terms like spike, flood, civet, dervish, and garlands linked to decorative usage.
William Ritt reports from Kotzebue where Eskimo villagers host a Independence Day beauty contest with contestants in parkas. The fashion gimmick draws mixed reactions as a travel item note. A separate item notes Granby Quebec as a boomtown with a resident achieving a world drum beating record of fifty five consecutive hours.
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