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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1942
Page
7
A columnist outlines organizing a bicycle club with park rides and games like bike baseball using a 250 foot field. Races, relays, tag, and ladder challenges provide variety while emphasizing safety and controlled instruction to avoid injuries. The piece suggests churches share messages by delivering letters via bike.
Barry Young describes building a wind up street comet using cans boards tin bearings and rubber bands. instructions cover cutting and assembling axles bearings and gearing, drilling holes, winding the bands and releasing the toy on a sidewalk with emphasis on safety around pedestrians.
A young physician confesses to a fellow doctor that he inadvertently signed his name in the space reserved for the cause of death on a death certificate. The exchange highlights a careless filing mistake.
Time yellowed records reveal Padre Antonio de Cereso directed Indian labor to dig a shallow canal linking the San Juan and Atrato headwaters to end boundary fights. The dug ditch carried cacao bean cargoes between the Atlantic and Pacific routes, predating the modern Panama Canal by 125 years. The canal is now debris in the continental divide but still traceable.
Readers are invited to submit coed puzzles to the Riddle Man for publication and credit. Entries include Corinne Becker Corrine Becker, 860b Jarrett, Carolyn Overall, Richard Soloman, and Richard Kusoian with five riddle questions on religion, windows, starvation, fashion, and moving yet stationary motion.
The editor urges early planning for summer activities and earnings. Seek summer jobs ahead to avoid scarce openings and build spending money. Consider skill needs for certain positions and prep in advance to enjoy better experiences.
The article envisions a future of air freight lines rivaling ships and trains with much lower costs possibly around seven cents per ton mile. It notes concept planes like Harlan Fowler's container type cargo plane and the potential role of gliders and even parachutes for mail and package delivery. It also references the Air Cadet League of Canada members as uniforms and training in engines and aircraft construction.
Katherine Houison explains four rules to gain popularity for youths. Be a good sport by smiling and congratulating others, be punctual for events and meals, be a good receiver by graciously accepting gifts or advice, and be an interested listener who lets others speak. Widespread popularity comes from applying these habits.
A fragmented dialogue features a salt seller and a coach reacting to a fast bump that stirred a wasps nest, followed by a series of riddle answers. The list includes five items: prer upon you, the sun, each wave comes in with a rail, to keep a check on his stomach, and stairs.
A reader prize contest from Aunt Peggy offers a mayonnaise and cheese dressing recipe. Harriet of 226 East Meshannock, Wilmington PA receives a prize for best recipe submission this week.
Nathaniel Krum presents simple paper based illusions. Tricks include balancing a tumbler on accordion folds of paper between two glasses, a coin disappearance using a glued paper cover on a glass, and boiling water in a paper container without burning it. Each method relies on folded or glued edges and clever positioning.
A quoted exchange questions divine opinion on Bobby beating his drum. The man upstairs gives Bobby a knife and asks if he knows what lies inside the drum, suggesting a sinister test or hidden meaning behind the percussion.
Billy Roberts aged 10 in Deland Florida turns avocado seeds into rooting plants in mayo jar water. He sells each plant for 10 cents, attracting a market among mothers of friends and earning his dollar prize for the week. Readers are invited to write details to the editor for publication consideration.
Puzzle fans get a crossword themed column with baseball hints. Clues cover fields insects snakes singles ages views principles exclamations and more. The puzzle hints reference players actors and time marks while noting a playful anagram not connected to baseball.
A compact note solving last week's puzzles with BASE ANSWERS TO LAST WEEK'S PUZZLES H sop sales holiday pedal Sal and related hints. The piece hints at wordplay where second word means so be it and third is dispersed, yielding a final results theme.
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