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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1960
Page
6
A 60 year old tale recalls a British Army experiment with elephants hauling artillery in India. Elephants panicked under fire at Moohtan, wrecking guns and carriages, and the episode ended when a cow elephant named Sylvia wrecked a railroad truck. The incident marked the end of elephants in service.
Rice plays a daily role in Japan from meals to ceremonies. New Year customs include rice straw ropes over doors and mochi tied to posts to keep horses from leaving the farm. Tiny bamboo-leaf bags in Osaka are sold as good luck charms.
Each line hides an insect name by rotating letters within parts of the words. We identify Youth Not yes Preposition Female sheep Writing tool Tardier Rodent as hidden insect names by rearranging letters, and the puzzle ends with DOWN.
The article traces roller skating from its Holland ice origins to the 1700s and 1800s. It notes early experiments with wheels, the 1819 French copper wheel design, and James L. Plimpton who imagined two pairs of wheels. Newport Rhode Island hosts America's first rink in 1866, with modern skates evolving through wheel materials and improvements. It also mentions skaters in daily work, including a gas station worker and a mail carrier using skates.
A girl and a boy find a baby in a shawl inside a grain field near London. The baby grows into Sir Thomas Gresham, finance founder of London’s Royal Exchange, crowned by a stone grasshopper atop the rebuilt building. The tale notes the Exchange’s 1844 final rebuilding and the steady grasshopper figure.
New York City's natural harbor is bigger than the world's next six largest harbors combined, highlighting its scale and prominence as a global maritime hub.
An unusual apple game has players form a circle around a pile of apples with one fewer apple than players. They circle to music and rush to grab an apple when it stops. The one left empty handed drops out. The game continues until two players remain, competing for the last apple. The final winner receives the basket of apples as a prize.
The notice states reproduction in whole or in part is prohibited except with permission from the Newspaper Enterprise Association. Printed in the United States.
A list of readers seeking correspondence is published inviting others to send their names and addresses to Captain Hal at the paper. The names include Michael Lakatos, Barbara Sabin, Cynthia Eitner, Mike Hobson, Sandra Thomas, Charles Gladman, Alice Pecoraro, Sally White, and Monta Wratchford with ages 8 to 13 and street addresses in Ohio, Washington D.C., and Massachusetts.
Puzzle answers appear as a string of scrambled names and phrases such as THOMSSOUD ALS ALSAL SLSQNDOT and SNOWING with references to Apuoseiq and SONG NAGASH. The fragment includes quoted items and parenthetical hints like NYOH and MOIPA, suggesting a wordplay list or code puzzle with multiple masked proper nouns.
A short verse imagines a stomach with eyes to watch what is eaten. The speaker acknowledges overeating cookies and sweets and lack of vegetables, suggesting vigilance would prevent stomach aches. The playful tone reflects a childlike wish for better eating habits.
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