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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1959
Page
7
Cartoonist Cal made several mistakes in his SEA SONS word triangle puzzle. The second word is to last and third idolize while sixth points to a compass. clues reveal six words each containing CAN. The title hints at a suspended triangle and a list of CAN themed phrases for readers to decode and grade themselves on accuracy.
A kid friendly guide explains three secret codes the Missing Vowels Last Letter and Backwards. It shows how to omit vowels use last letters and reverse text to hide messages and suggests making your own code with a friend.
A long listing of names and ages appears, each line giving a name street city state and an age. The entries span across New York Massachusetts Florida North Dakota Virginia Alabama Mississippi North Carolina Wisconsin and more. Names include Donna Gregorin Dale McDonald Kathy Mai Steryle Rossi Avia Thompson Cheryl Olsen Martha Quillen Paulette Kusy Merry Wells Susan Routh Betsy Foster Mary Hardin Patty Basgall Lynn Heffinger Brenda Gall Fox Shirley Goff Dorothy Hughen Sara Huppert and Ray Huppert.
The tiger shark battles as fishermen haul it aboard the Porpoise ITI for the aquarium prize. They defend the catch from the shark’s teeth and gentle push it into the boat tank. The crew, who trap sharks rays and porpoises for Florida’s undersea zoo, keep their deep sea specimens alive aboard the uniquely designed craft.
Fishermen operate an 11 by 14 foot bow tank to house live sharks and rays. They deal with giant mantas that once towed their vessel for six hours. Captured rays are netted and carefully removed barbs to prevent harm. Divers “walk” sharks to restore oxygen and maintain life in the tank. The motto is coddling deep sea creatures for public viewing.
Dear Mister Info answers a child panel about dressing alike, money lending, bicycle traffic laws, and TV Shirley Temple. Twins may not be required to dress the same as they age, siblings debating loans should involve parents, bicyclists obey traffic laws like drivers, and Shirley Temple on television is the same former child star.
The piece presents two poems celebrating autumn’s colors and calm. The first depicts a scarecrow guarding fields through rain and sun, patient and lonely in service to farmers. The second admires summer’s sea yielding to fall, with sailboats, waves, and a crisp sea breeze signaling seasonal change.
A garbled OCR puzzle list presents mixed letter strings and numeric codes. The readable segments hint at concealed phrases and names, with hints of substitutions and enciphered lines. The text includes fragments like JO YJUOU and SS VdWOD, suggesting a cryptic wordplay collection rather than a single clear event.
Solve the listed money idioms by matching each blank to the corresponding expression. Answers include dough for any amount, green back for one dollar, fin for five, two-bits for fifty cents, saw buck for ten, cart wheel for a silver dollar, century note for one hundred, lettuce for any amount, and chicken feed for small change.
The story recounts Babe the Blue Ox hauling wagons and creating Lake Itasca as water flows to the Gulf of Mexico. Babe’s wandering tracks left by far apart hoofprints are said to become the ten thousand lakes. Paul Bunyan supposedly buried and memorialized Babe at a grave in the Black Hills drawing visitors.
A joke explaining punctuation. It notes a cat has claws at the end of its paws while a comma provides a pause at the end of a clause.
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