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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1960
Page
6
The paper announces Susan Willett of Oceanside California as the Britannica Junior 15 volume encyclopedia winner for school and home. Readers are invited to send questions with name and address to Tell Me Why care of this paper. The item references a historical note about chickens in China 3500 years ago and mentions Roman conquests.
A collage of light humor and short observations from a bygone page includes remarks on ducks laying eggs, a child’s sharp eye on Mr Morgan, a bakery pun about four bits, and jokes from a bus seat exchange. It also notes a Civil War monument riddle, a playful line about supreme courtship, a teacher’s washroom cue, and terse medical and psychological snippets.
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