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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1961
Page
6
This piece recalls how joining the Girl Scouts instilled a core value: everyone takes turns at chores, sharing dull duties as well as fun tasks. The author credits camp life and the Girl Scout law, especially being cheerful, with shaping resilience and teamwork that lasts through life.
A page invites readers to send name address and age to Captain Hal for pen pals from western states. Names and addresses include Eugene Willard 203 Springdale Dr Union SC 14, Jeff Collins 187 N Highland Akron OH 13, and others aged 9 to 14 from Ohio Maryland Hawaii New Jersey and more.
A compact explanation of rainbows covering how they form as a spectrum of colors, why they appear only with sun behind you and rain in front, and when they are visible. It notes various cultural names for the rainbow and its mythic meanings across civilizations, concluding with Iris and Norse and Hebrew interpretations.
Cartoonist Cal displays Puzzle Pete’s crossword on Mrs Pierce’s silhouette. Clues hint at names birthplaces and word forms from the Pierce family. The piece invites readers to complete a diamond word puzzle and count word variants from the name PIERCE.
A girl named Amy admires her mother and imagines growing up to wear fine clothes and accessories. She watches her mother dress for theater and dinner, wishing for stockings high heels a hoop petticoat a sparkling necklace perfume and curly hair. She realizes she must wait to become like her mother.
A light verse about enjoying treats after school with ice cream pudding pies baked apples custards and cookies. The speaker recalls loved desserts from a motherly kitchen as spring arrives and brisk winds blow.
A compact look at clouds and snow explaining cirrus ice crystals in the sky. It notes that snow is lightweight, can be misleading in summer, and that winterflakes vary. Snow is a water source. 20 inches of snow can yield about one inch of rain.
Joe challenges Tom to change a fruit into a feather and insists it’s easy. Tom learns the solution by thinking on the way to school, and the answer is adding an E to plum to form plume.
A playful scene of insects on a warm day: beetles race, spiders speed, caterpillars creep, and an earthworm sleeps. A road block with the warning caution slow down ant workers halts traffic, highlighting busy activity and humorous danger on the garden roads.
A list of dog names with vowels inserted prompts solving. Answers include boxer beagle poodle dachshund chihuahua German shepherd cocker spaniel bulldog chow chow. Each clue hides the standard breed name through missing vowels.
A child hides labels on canned foods causing a family guessing game at mealtime. The siblings open plain gray cans and must guess the contents, leading to repeated surprises of spinach or baked beans three times in a row.
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