Travel Town draws crowds with historic transport relics
In 1952 Los Angeles opened Travel Town in Griffith Park under the park department to showcase early locomotives, trolleys, and other transport history. It attracts thousands weekly as vehicles such as a 1908 Stanley Steamer, a 100-ton tractor, a steam pumper, and a Taft-era locomotive Nos. 3025 and 442 Atlantic enthrall visitors, highlighting the era when the world was modernized by transport.
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Los Angeles
Griffith Park
Travel Town
City Recreation and Park Department
United States
Park Department
Rolls-Royce
Russia
Southern Pacific Railway Company
William Howard Taft
California
Safer Summer Fun Quiz For Beatrice Latimer
A kid safety quiz asks yes or no questions about beach swimming, water play, boating, camp stoves, lighting, lost outdoors, bonfires, tree climbing, water drinking, bicycle upkeep, dog encounters, and playing away from streets. The author Beatrice J Latimer explains that even numbers yield yes and odds yield no with explanations to discuss with a parent.
Plan to Collect Animal Images for Identification
The task outlines gathering pictures of animals or dog breeds and creating a list of usable images. It suggests making an 80 item list, sharing copies, and testing recognition by holding each up to assess correct identifications. It notes dog breed sources like dog books as good picture sources.
Grow Your Own Parsley in a Sponge Window Garden
Plant parsley seeds in a moist sponge, run a string through it, and hang the sponge in a kitchen window. Keep the sponge damp for fresh, colorful garnish.
Pete’s Column Puzzle Triangle Contest Finish
The puzzle asks to finish Pete’s word triangle with a theme swap and a six term sequence. The second word is thus, the third a number, the fourth dispatched, the fifth to pester, and the sixth mental faculties. Across clues include 6 Struck and rebounded, 8 Rowing tool, 10 Roadside stopping place, 11 Reverend (ab.), 13 Compass point, 16 Exhausted, 18 Puff up Down clues: 1 Sheep’s bleat, 2 Reaching of destination, 3 Behold!, 4 Distinguished, 5 Dry as wine, 6 Company (ab.).
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Pete
Shells Not Pearls Drive Oyster Trade Forward
White sails dot the waters off Broome Onslow Darwin and Thursday Island as shell prices surge. Pearling thrives with shell not pearls keeping the industry alive, divers face danger and decompression gear modernizes. United States buyers anchor a yearly 3 500 to 4 000 ton market while peak Australian production tops 3 000 tons.
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Broome
Onslow
Darwin
Australia
Broomewaters
Thursday Island
Word Puzzle Clue Set for 7 Down to 17 Across
A series of crossword style clues including seven down East abbreviation eleven road abbreviation twelve before fourteen view fifteen boys nickname seventeen Indian Army abbreviation. The puzzle adds a subtraction instruction: remove a letter from a Texas city to form a dinner course then remove another to yield youths then repeat to obtain sorrowful and finally while.
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Indian Army
Texas
Campy the disobedient sea horse seeks adventure
Campy a three inch greenish black sea horse craves real adventure over playful games. He breaches the surface, escapes a hungry fish, endures a net and finds strength from Father Sea Horse to persevere. He returns home ready to join siblings in hide and seek.
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Campy
Hippocampus
Father Sea Horse
Sea Horse
Captain Hal Pen Pal Ads Foster Child Letters
Children seek pen pals across the nation with names ages and addresses listed. Bonnie Sue Dawson 8 in Akron Ohio Debby Muhleisen 10 in Warren Ohio Alice Jane Morgan Barberton Ohio Mary Jane Platterer Gordon Wisconsin Charles Borosos Barberton Ohio 8 with crafts Steve Hawley Pikeville North Carolina 8 Gene Winch Cantwell Missouri 11 listed for contact
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Hollywood
Calif
Bonnie Sue Dawson
Newton St
Akron
Ohio
New York
Debby Muhleisen
Sunnybrook Dr
Warren
Frances
Alice Jane Morgan
East State St
Barberton
Charles Borosos
North Dakota
West Summit Street
Steve Hawley
Pikeville
N.C
Gene Winch
P.O
Cantwell
Riddle: An animal kin to the cat
First letter from foot not head is F. Second from pink not red is I. Third from pig not cow is G. Fourth from eye not brow is E. Fifth from rod and rat is R. The five letters form TIGER, an animal kin to the cat.
Vacation Code For Secret Postcard Messages
A simple cipher teaches you to replace each letter with the next one in the alphabet. Write the alphabet twice with a one letter shift to encode messages such as See you soon becoming TFF ZPV TPPO.
Make Sleeping Bag for Your Doll
A simple doll sleeping bag guide explains measuring from shoulder to foot plus two inches, cutting two U shapes with a wider one split, shaping front and back necklines, sewing shoulders sides and bottom, turning inside out, and finishing the neckline with bias tape or crochet, to keep hands and feet warm.
Perspective in Man Made Structures Enhances Space
The article explains how roads poles railways and buildings create perspective that makes landscapes look vast. It argues properly used perspective adds depth and interest to photographs by guiding the viewer’s eye through composed scenes.
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Beatrice J. Latimer
Animal Fun
Pes
Salnas Asvallnas
Tionviul
Aly
Isalnod
George
Africa
India
Northland
Compass Point
Steve Libby
Hal
Mary Jane Platterer
Gordon, Wis
Newspaper Enterprise Association
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