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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1959
Page
7
A letter from Crystal, age eleven, asking for help with hair length and style. She notes friends wear short hair and fears her father’s reaction, while her mother contemplates a haircut. Guidance offered on self expression, parental conversation, and safety.
A reader asks why a boy teases her in class and how to handle it. The columnist suggests the boy is attracted and advises Brenda to respond with a playful facial reaction to see him blush, while noting she should not be angry.
Puzzle features Delaware city names hidden in rebus and a cross word with clues for Diamond-cutter's cup and other terms. Mirror puzzle hints reveal Delaware’s nickname state tree and flower, with diamond fishing as a key industry and wordplay extending into clue-based diamond formation.
By 1859 Dan Emmett was hailed as a top minstrel. After a night show a partner urged him to write a new upbeat number fast. He recalled the showman's Dixie line and quickly composed the lively tune in a few hours.
James Aldredge recounts how Dan Emmett wrote and premiered Dixie with words and music in one draft. The tune quickly swept Bryant troupe and Manhattan audiences. It became a Confederate anthem in war and a national tune after Lincoln’s White House serenade. Emmett sold the copyright for 500 dollars and died in Ohio, farming to survive.
An article describes eerie marine oddities in warm waters. It notes fish with long jaws shredding nets, an ocean flower that consumes small fish, and a bashful parrot fish in West Indian seas that dons a self made night gown by secreting a translucent envelope around its body each night.
In a playful natural history piece, the saw fish off the African west coast uses its long bone saw as a rake to root out prey from mud, while green toothed males and brightly colored fish contrast with a nightwear habit. Seahorselike sea anemone flowers at Cape Haze Florida dine on tiny fish when fed by hermit crabs, offering a curious image of underwater life.
A slate of young pen pals with listed names ages and street addresses across Massachusetts Texas Wisconsin Missouri New York Ohio Indiana Montana and North Carolina invites partners for correspondence. Entries include Elizabeth Martin Gracie Martinez Linda Aaen Rosanne Smith Jan Frodesen Ray Southard Rosemary Doyle Margaret Gates Debbie Madden Marcia Pearson Chris Wagoner Jean Bolen Judith Peterson and others.
Harold Wright of Kalamazoo Michigan operates a garden tractor as a locomotive giving free rides to neighborhood children. A list of youths and addresses appears, including Kathy Covey and Patricia Wimbish among others, with ages ranging 9 to 13. The scan also contains garbled text and stray characters at the end.
Brain Teaser lists animal names that also denote real places. Match each item like Buffalo Turkey Gila Snake Canary White Horse Great Bear Beaver Cat Crocodile to geographic locations such as lakes rivers islands and cities, including Lake in the Northwest Territories Limpopo River Bahamas island port on the Erie Canal Hell's Canyon River in Lake Michigan Spain's Atlantic islands Turkey capital Ankara Yukon capital and the river joining the Colorado near Yuma.
A historic look at New York City mail delivery via two-foot steel subways cars running through tubes since 1897. Compressed air powers the mail cars at about 30 mph, greased tracks keep transport smooth, and opening day drew crowds with a Bible, an American flag, and the Constitution aboard the first car.
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