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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1962
Page
5
Alfie, teased by friends for not taking a dare, nearly gives in but refuses. He ends up saving a child from a car, earning respect from Vince and proving bravery comes from action not peer pressure. The scene shifts from taunts to a moment of clear, selfless courage.
Ants can be entertaining as well as pests and a simple ant village setup helps study their behavior. A wooden frame glass panes sand and a water dropper simulate tunnels and feeding while observing how ants avoid collisions. Colonies range from dozens to hundreds of thousands with winged queens and workers. Weldon D. Woodson
A newspaper note invites readers to mail letters to Captain Hal. It lists numerous children with names addresses and ages spanning Ohio Alabama North Carolina Mississippi Texas and more.
A historical overview of bamboo highlights its ancient role in silk egg transport from China to Turkey and modern uses by an American serviceman. The piece notes bamboo as a perennial grass, its rapid vertical growth, and diverse applications from housing materials and furniture to containers and food. It also mentions bamboo’s prominence in tropical regions, its underground root system, and traditional tools carved from hard bamboo species.
An introductory fragment on Prue and Sue twins contrasts with passages describing bamboo cultivation and uses. It explains bamboo builds fences and bridges, forms frameworks, and yields medicinal secretions. The piece highlights adaptability and nature as a gift from nature.
Puzzle Pete prompts readers to solve facts about Mrs Elizabeth Walker Blaine Blaine great nephew James Harrison Jr and Mary Harrison using a rebus. The item names Dim mock as a central word puzzle and lists relations and hometown connections for Mrs Harrison.
A list of craft ideas describes filling tall wine bottles with marbles or odd-shaped perfume bottles with sand tinted by dyes, sealing with aluminum foil and tape for desk paper weights. A scrambled phrase ELADSENCH ENILORAC NIMANNEB HTEBAZILE appears, followed by a crossword-like clue set including Harrison references, abbreviations, and a downs and across grid with various definitions.
A discussion notes that vines grow counterclockwise south of the equator and clockwise in the north, with northern seeds twisting differently in southern countries. It explains how reversing a vine’s direction can make growth align correctly and ponders possible causes linked to the earth’s rotation and pole proximity, though no definitive answer exists.
A playful puzzle asks readers to locate embedded study subjects within listed phrases. Items include national science and civics themes, with references to English history French math science and botany among mixed words and misspellings.
A short poem about a blue umbrella with yellow polka dots. The speaker plans to stay indoors to keep the umbrella dry and avoid getting it wet. Kay Cammer is the attributed poet.
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