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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1962
Page
5
A tarantula family spider builds an underground home with a silk lined tunnel and a moss covered trap door. After battle with a tarantula wasp he finishes the door, decorates the interior, and waits for prey at night before cautiously peering out at dawn. Frances Gorman Risser
A brief care tip states that lemon juice sprinkled on either black or brown shoes and rubbed briskly will produce an excellent shine.
A quick method to mold a ribbon bow without untying it uses mom guiding loops over a medium hot curling iron. The technique involves slipping each loop over the iron and pulling taut to set the shape.
Puzzle Pete hides four of New York state sites within a word diamond built from clues and definitions. The puzzle uses NEW YORK as the center, with clues yielding a month abbreviation, stitcher, a flower, and arid as the inner words, revealing hidden place names in the surrounding letters.
In a Greek parable a 12 year old boy named Hercules faces a fork in the road. Lured by the Joyous One promising ease, he instead selects Labor and Fulfillment, choosing a harder path that leads to the green mountains beyond, teaching a lesson about toil and reward.
Hugo Janssen of Sheboygan Wisconsin began collecting stones as a boy and now at 72 owns over 300 varieties from around the world. He freezes no habit, selling stones to museums, trading with collectors in Canada and Australia, and crafting jewelry from his finds using diamond tools and silver settings.
A brain teaser uses capitalized words and their synonyms. Each item links two forms where all letters of the second form appear in the first. Examples illustrate matching pairs within a playful quiz format.
A playful poem about an elf admiring Granny's cookie jar on a shelf made just right for him. It lists festive treats for Valentine’s Day Easter Fourth of July Halloween Thanksgiving and Christmas. The elf cherishes the jar and Granny's generosity.
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The readable text presents a jumble of letter sequences and mirrored phrases, resembling puzzle answers with interspersed names, dates, and scattered words. It hints at coded phrases and reversed words that may conceal familiar proper nouns and references.
Local youth across states and territories respond to Captain Hal’s call for pen pals. Names and addresses from Pennsylvania to Mississippi appear, ages ranging from 6 to 15, with hobbies like stone collecting and a request for pen pals nationwide and Puerto Rico.
In 549 Kien wen of Wu in a besieged Liang city sent a message on a kite to summon help. An enemy officer ordered archers to shoot the kite but it transformed into a bird and escaped, marking an early instance of antiaircraft practice.
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