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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1968
Page
5
Betty Canary writes about New Year reflections and light resolutions, noting August as a tentative start for goals. She recalls reader letters from 1968, celebrates gifts of memory, gratitude, and family, and expresses hope for serenity and fresh beginnings in 1969.
A red-breasted nuthatch, a wanderer among the white-breasted locals, visited a Massachusetts backyard feeder last week. The wandering bird may travel between Maine New Hampshire and Hudson's Bay, with winters spanning Florida or Mississippi in some years. Nesting here is rare but possible in Maine New Hampshire or Vermont, while migratory patterns vary by season. The bird's quick, wren like movements and distinctive calls attract attention, and its diet of spiders insects and conifer seeds benefits the woodlot and signals a bright, adaptable winter guest local to New England.
The hue and cry was a legal duty requiring neighbors to chase a felon once a crime was known. When a felony was discovered, the victim raised the hue and cry and locals were bound by law to join the pursuit, a practice noted by the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
The article notes the Peace Corps became a permanent agency when President Kennedy signed the Peace Corps Act on September 22, 1961, with an executive order in March. It also asks how fast experts travel on snowshoes, citing walking speeds of five to six miles per hour and running at around ten miles per hour. Alaska leads in national forest area with 20,735,682 acres.
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