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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1962
Page
5
A vivid piece from Cyv LaTour portrays Mr. X a roadrunner in the southwest desert. It describes his camouflage speed and deadly aim as he hunts rattlesnakes and feeds on lizards insects and snakes while sleeping outdoors in winter and earning the nickname Mr X from the bird’s X shaped tracks.
A guide of three playful tricks for gatherings. First, use two fore fingers to snap apart two fists. second, twist a napkin into rope and moisten to tear it. third, clasp hands on the head and resist being pulled apart. Each demonstrates quick, surprising effects.
The Brooklyn Children's Museum opened December 16, 1899 as the world’s first museum designed for boys and girls. Funded by the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, it began in two mansions and later became a separate department in 1948. The museum emphasizes active learning with hands on objects and varied topics like Why An Insect Is Not Human and Chinese Manners. Mrs. Gro Baga currently leads cultural history, guiding demonstrations with artifacts the children may touch, including primitive weapons and traditional garments.
Readers seek pen pals across the country with names and addresses listed for ages 8 to 15. Individuals from Michigan Wisconsin Massachusetts Virginia Hawaii Texas and beyond offer to exchange letters, sharing interests and locations for correspondence.
The article describes a three man Apollo capsule designed for the first manned lunar landing and later for assembling a manned space station. It outlines space rendezvous, the use of an empty Atlas as the station hull, unmanned supply rockets, and the rotating wheel shaped station producing artificial gravity. It explains centrifugal force and weightlessness, two hulls for meteor protection, and algae to recycle carbon dioxide.
A short poem about a funny bat with soft fur wings and a high voice. The creature loves haunted houses yet favors caves, haunts and flits by night while sleeping upside down in daylight.
John Austin recounts how missteps sparked major advances from khaki dyeing and a white tulip to borax in industry and the Nobel prize origin. He notes Alfred Nobel’s nitroglycerine leak turning into dynamite and Senefelder’s lithography born from a stone etching mishap.
A brain teaser presents a list of culture words and a second column of clues. Identify which culture applies to each item such as Grapes to Viticulture or Forests to Sylviculture, noting duplicates like Aviculture appearing twice and others like Pomiculture for fruit trees.
Instructions describe making a cork pin tack dart game using old phonograph parts and chicken feathers, plus a method to create pin pictures by outlining a cardboard image and punching holes with a hatpin, then holding the card to light to view the pattern.
Puzzle Pete hides three North Dakota places and a product by rearranging letter strings. Clues cover terms from garden border to Gaelic, East River abbr, compass points, and verbs, with a backward sentence hint at AtokaD North on County.
A small pencil sharpener is taped to the inside rim of a room’s wastebasket so shavings fall directly into the basket, keeping the area tidy and convenient for quick sharpening needs.
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