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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Jul 04, 1929
Page
6
In a June 4 1929 Winter Time Competition note the editor thanks many entrants and selects Dimples as the junior prize winner for neatness and spelling. The Crimson Rambler is named best senior entry amid crowded pages and limited space.
A collection of winter letters from Canberra youth ages between 4 and 14, sharing daily routines snow and frost at Duntroon and Acton. They describe school, chores, farming tasks, games, reading, and letters to the Cheer Circle, plus notes on weather and community activities.
The King hosts a sea folk ball as a wicked witch’s spell on Seafoam, the king’s daughter, is broken when a prince asks for a dance. Seafoam transforms from ugly to mermaid beauty, and the couple unite, celebrated by all.
In the work box the Thimble lectures Vera the Needle on mutual reliance. The Needle claims without the Thimble’s support the thread cannot lead, while the Cotton chimes in that stitching would falter without help. They concede that teamwork makes each part effective.
Fragmentary verse describes playful fairies hiding and peering around in a whimsical Fairyland scene. Nonsensical lines mention characters and objects as they dart about and tease the observer.
A set of misprinted riddles with answers indicating garbled phrases. Examples include Why is the letter 1 very clever with the answer Termse it nikes ay earl and What river ie the mod inquisitive Anew The Wye. Other items ask What Pete com be eaten with answers like Cruin peta and Two holes for the sock riddle.
A brief reminder urges readers to limit writing to one side of each sheet. The note emphasizes conserving paper and avoiding ink on the reverse side in all official and personal documents. It cautions about potential misreads or mail processing issues if guidelines are ignored.
Fragmentary OCR passage shows Connie perched on Clifford's bracket clinging to his jacket as dialogue expresses disbelief and tension about safety and control, with a claim that a good life willow alt cannot exist. The text is incomplete and hard to parse, but portrays a precarious moment and anxious dialogue between Connie and Clifford.
A humorous riddle about the Bigger family asks who was the biggest, using a playful family tree. Mr Bigger dies from war injuries, then Mrs Bigger marries her late husband's brother and is called the bigger still, prompting a joke about who is the bigger.
A jumbled poem of odd contrasts with lines about a head without a ball a cluck without a mouth and needles with eyes. It ends with a reflection on friendship as a force for self forgetting and great work attributed to Jeffrey Farol.
A sleepy billposter misordered a nine digit arrangement in three rows of three. Determine the number of ways to arrange the digits so that no smaller number sits below or to the right of any number. This puzzle appears in the weekend Inge section.
Merit cards are awarded for the best letters and articles sent to this page. A blue merit card is worth three pink ones and a pink card equals four white ones. When you have three blue cards or an equivalent, send them to Dimity Dell for a prize.
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