Bulger's Alpine Adventure Ends With Ice Cream Break
Four children Teddy Madge Cora and Bulger play on a haystack they call the Alps in a yard mountain top. Teddy leads a climb from the Great Precipice while Bulger slips down in a fall but remains cheerful and ready for ice cream afterward.
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Bulger
Miss Snicker
Alps
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Switzerland
Switszerland
Bruver
Core
Ard Bulger
Picnic Lemonade How To Make It
Aids to preparing a cooling drink for picnics with a sugar syrup method. Boil sugar to make syrup, squeeze lemons, bottle juice, and mix with cold water. Optional fruit additions like strawberry or blackberry juice enhance flavor.
Puzzle Corner Zigzag Riddle Points to Civil War General
Puzzle gives clues to letters forming a word good farmers love. It yields a zigzag of equal length words and a final name of a Civil War general. Crosswords include month people body part fastening stockings loud noise that which we all have. Behead clues remove first letter to leave kitchen utensil shaft of sunlight weapon.
Curtailed Riddles and Wordplay From a 19th Century Page
A series of wordplay clues about curtailment of names and objects. It includes hints like a parent name shortened with an insect, a sea vessel, a log hut shortened to reveal a horse-drawn vehicle, and a riddle about a postmaster as a man of letters. It ends with jokes on cords and spendthrift versus feather bed, showcasing light puntery.
Puzzle Picture Missing Assistant
A vintage puzzle caption asks readers to spot the magician’s disappeared assistant in a designed illustration. The brief invites locating the hidden figure amid props and stage elements.
If She Were a Fairy
A child, Stella May, imagines being a fairy to spread happiness and smiles to all. She would grant wishes and lift frowns with a wand, until an evil person makes a wicked wish that halts the magic.
Notable Growths On John IL Atchison's Property
John IL Atchison of Newberry DC reports two extraordinary growths on his land. A grapevine measures 14 inches in diameter and extends over 100 feet, coiled on the ground and reaching nearly 100 feet up a tree. A walnut tree stands 8 feet 2 inches in diameter with over 9 feet of trunk around and rises 50 feet from the ground.
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John IL. Atchison
Newberry
D. C
Answers to Last Week's Puzzles
Puzzle answers listed in a compact grid format including Letter Enigma Nature Zigzag Puzzle Jenny Lind and wordplay beheadings curtailments. Entries show pairs like Prose rose, Report port, Page age, Freeze free, Hum bughum.
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Jenny Lind
Daisy
Little Johnnies Mystery in a Wild Circus Hair Show
Rhyme describes a performer named Sig who jabs large pins into her scalp as part of a circus act. The narrator recalls a rubbery freak in a prior show and compares the pain and spectacle to pinning a hat. The piece emphasizes the danger and humor of the dangerous spectacle.
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