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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1962
Page
6
A poor boy named Way-Out Jack trades a Jaguar for seeds that grow into moonflowers. The vines reach the moon and Mars City Limits as Jack and Martians share cheese. Jack returns home with moonflowers and cheese, building a belt to harvest from the moon.
A note describes saving seed catalogues by cutting pictures of fruits vegetables and flowers from them and pasting the images to corners of paper napkins used during everyday meals for decoration.
Crossword word puzzle centers on Mrs Arthur with clues and a diamond word fill. Puzzle Pete asks solvers to deduce Mrs Arthur’s first name maiden name Herndon and related terms including backward names and a pronoun hour wireless and a card game as part of a silhouette cartoon by Cal.
Kids are invited to send their name address and age to Captain Hal for pen pals. Readable names and addresses include Becky Huth in Freeport Pennsylvania age 10 and multiple others across Maine Massachusetts North Carolina Texas Ohio Alabama with ages ranging from 8 to 14.
The article explains zoo operations from feeding and budgeting to veterinary care and grooming. It notes stored meat and fish in freezers, produce in refrigerators, and yearly food costs across vegetables, meat, fish, bread, and grain. It describes hospital care, daily animal observation, and special grooming tasks for elephants, snakes, lions, turtles, and more.
A classroom style activity assigns players to cut and paste capital letters from a newspaper to spell Socrates. The winner is the first to complete the eight letter word with each letter fully visible and in its own square, following rules and timing.
Five riddle lines each ending with a rhyming word. Answers: 1 Well 2 Bell 3 Shell 4 Yell 5 Ell. The set plays on rhymes with the word cell and matches clues for round deep green well, church bell clock hand, beach shell, crowd yell at games, house extension ell with cloth length ell.
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