Animals on maps show popular state names and places
Ferris Weddle notes that bear eagle elk and buffalo names appear across states with towns rivers mountains and counties named after them. He points out numerous examples such as Bear River Eagle Pass Elk City Buffalo Montana Beaver Falls and Elk Basin while observing no major towns named for the skunk.
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Utah
Bear River
Montana
Bearcreek
Bearmouth
Wyoming
Bear Creek
Idaho
Bear Lake
Texas
Eagle Pass
Eagle Lake
Michigan
Eagle River
Oregon
Eagle Creek
Eagle
Elk Basin
Elkhorn
Elk Mountain
Elk
Buffalo
New York
Buffalo Hump
Beaver Falls
Pennsylvania
New Mexico
My Most Important Childhood Lesson from Farm Auctions
Minnesota Senator McCarthy recalls farm auctions of the 1920s and 1930s. He notes foreclosures, hardship for neighbors, and the need for government to aid individuals while protecting freedom. He describes his WW II service and postwar view of a limited but active government role.
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Sen. McCarthy
Intelligence Corps
United Nations
Sen, McCarthy
U.S
House of Representatives
Senate
Captain Hal’s Pen Pal List for Today
Local notice invites readers to print name address and age and send to Captain Hal for pen pals. Listed are Michael Reicheld 2535 Albrecht Ave Akron 12 Ohio age 8 Carolyn Wills 171 No Chestnut St Ravenna Ohio Jean Bowser 14 Wood St Wheatland Pa age 13 Jeanne Carbonel P O Box 37 Halaula Hawaii Nancy Bowles 1097 Nome Ave Akron 20 Ohio age 12 Susan Lieberth 140 Euclid Ave Wadsworth Ohio age 11 Lee Ann Shaffer 575 Palisades Dr Akron 3 Ohio age 11 Thomas Wilkie 907 W Moreland Blvd Waukesha Wis age 7 Eric Stands Box 587 Halaula Hawaii age 9.
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Hal
Carolyn Wills
Chestnut St
Ravenna
Ohio
Jean Bowser
Wood St
Wheatland
Jeanne Carbonel
P.O
Halaula
Hawaii
Nancy Bowles
Nome Ave
Akron
Thomas Wilkie
W. Moreland Blvd
Waukesha
Wis
Eric Stands
Wriggling bonanza as Canberra kids sell worms to university
Canberra schoolchildren dig and sell wriggling worms to the Australian National University for over two dollars a pound. The worms fund studies in human muscle behavior and chemical research. By day’s end, $1,100 was spent and one top digger earned $34 while a hundred-plus youngsters earned about three dollars each. The first 200 worms were snap frozen for long term storage.
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Canberra
Australia
Australia National University
North America
Name Diamonds Hidden in Lines Puzzle
A boy's name is hidden in each sentence. Names appear in rotation as parts or whole words. Heavy gales terrify me. The knight rescued a damsel in distress. Puzzle Pete has centered his word diamond on CHARLES. The second word is a pronoun, third not fresh, fifth a girl's name, and sixth a contraction for even. Complete the diamond from these clues.
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Pete
Charles
Pete’s Column Hidden Boys Puzzle Challenge
Pete claims four hidden boys can be found by using words and pictures to full advantage. The column invites readers to spot names and clues within the page layout, prompting careful cross cues and visual decoding.
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Pete
The Mace Ghost of Joe Baldwin on the Rails
A century old North Carolina legend recalls conductor Joe Baldwin crushed in 1867 while connecting cars near Farmer's Turnout. His burning lantern haunts the tracks as a ghost light that wanders with a second light sometimes seen, baffling locals, officials, and railroad workers.
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the Mace
Joe Baldwin
Joe
Farmer's
Mace
North Carolina
Sud
Denly
Carolina
Baldwin
Washington
Fort Bragg
Fayetteville
Scoffers
Laugh Corner Burp Sparks School Cafeteria Joke
A new student burps loudly in the school cafe surprising a boy who mentions his girlfriend. The student apologizes saying he didn’t know it was her turn.
Aardwolf Appetite for Tiny Bugs in Africa Night
In an unforested African night an aardwolf stalks tiny prey. It leaps and pins the victim, then swallows an ant. The creature spends much time hunting small bugs due to its small weak teeth. The note cites termites as favored prey and explains dental limits.
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Africa
Puzzle Answers and Anagram Fragments Lead to Curious String
The page presents a jumble of letters and parenthetical hints forming a puzzle. It lists phrases like Apis 133 Sates and SAOM NACGIH, with reversed or scrambled segments such as GNOKIIG AOd and eupeope. The result appears as a cryptic collection of tangled tokens awaiting decryption.
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Gon
Beaver
Beaverton
Beaver County
Ferris Weddle
Tagle
Minnesota
Eugene J. McCarthy
Midwest
Sen
Eugene McCarthy
Michael Reicheld
Albrecht Ave
Susan Lieberth
Euclid Ave
Wadsworth
Lee Ann Shaffer
Palisades Dr
As Ia
Arthur
Patrick
Edward
Boy Diamond
Boy Rebus
Atlantic Coast Line
Hood's Creek
NAVY
Bridgeville
Newspaper Enterprise Association
Ernest L. Johnson
S Naga
sayreyDweqoy
Zoo’s Who
George Scarbo
USS
Canada
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