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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1962
Page
8
A collection of examples showing people with names closely matching their jobs or roles. From leaders to lawyers and editors, the piece notes how names like Leader, Painter, Barber, and Cash align with occupations and fortunes, drawing on historical figures and anecdotes.
Puzzle Pete builds a hand themed word triangle with clues starting HAND and MENACES as base. Solve by adding the correct word to form new words, yielding a compass point, an Oriental coin, a girl's name, an ice pinnacle, and a legislative body. complete the triangle ending with E MENACES.
Miriam Gilbert shares old fashioned tips used by sailors and farmers to forecast tomorrow. Pigs restless or birds hovering signal changeable or good weather. butterflies on roses at dusk suggest a good day. a rising or falling barometer warns of changes. red sunrise, pale sunset, mackerel sky, blue sky and cumulus clouds indicate rain or sun.
The puzzle asks to unscramble color words from mixed letters. Solutions: 1. WHITE 2. GREEN 3. PINK 4. TURQUOISE 5. PURPLE 6. LEMON 7. BROWN 8. GRAY 9. VIOLET 10. SCARLET
The sequence provides ten color names in a numbered list: White Green Pink Turquoise Purple Lemon Brown Gray Mauve Scarlet. Each color is presented as a single item in the progression without additional context.
Readers seek pen pals this week and instructions to mail name address and age to Captain Hal. Names and addresses span Akron Wooster Barberton and other towns with ages ranging from 8 to 16 inclosed among many Ohio cities and a few out of state listings.
Four riddles are presented with answers. The first asks what travels the house by day and rests in a closet corner at night answered as broom. The second asks what travels the house leaving one track answered as wheelbarrow. The third hides a name in a London bridge encounter answer Andrew and drew. The fourth asks about meeting people on the way to St Ives answered as just one, the man.
A playful party stunt shows participants write their aunts and uncles counts then perform a series of multiplications and additions. After sharing answers, the facilitator subtracts 150. The remaining digits reveal the numbers of aunts, uncles, and grandparents, a sequence described as always working.
A survey of diverse greeting traditions shows handshakes from cave days. Persian feet kissing. Chinese dismounting. Japanese sandal removal and a cry of do not hurt me. Siam subservience. Ceylon ground salutations. nose rubbing among some American Indians and Society Islands. Moorish riders firing over heads. Arabists varying from six to eight handshakes then multiple kisses. Burmese scent greeting. German hand kiss history. Russian forehead kiss. continental Europe casual lips.
A DIY fortune wheel crafts a black cat centerpiece with a spinner. Cut a fourteen inch square, glue orange fortune strips in a wheel pattern, draw a black cat face, attach with a brad at the center, and spin to reveal fortunes for players.
A short verse by Dorothy L. Switzer imagines a bird perched on a red-hot wire and wonders if its tail would be singed when it takes flight. The playful scene highlights a vivid, humorous observational moment.
A vintage advice note warns that a dull needle damages records by wearing grooves during play. It counsels replacing worn needles promptly and reminds readers that no needle lasts forever, urging timely maintenance of phonographs.
A simple beach care tip suggests using a mesh fruit bag for carrying items. Shake the bag a few times as you leave the beach to drop loose sand and leave the area clean. The advice emphasizes preventing sand transfer to cars and homes.
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