All American High School Football Game Comes to Memphis
A national prep all star game debuts in Memphis on August 29, pairing East and West squads drawn from a multi state pool. Mose Simms conceived the event, coordinating input from nearly 900 media outlets to honor top high school players across the country.
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Memphis, Tenn
Red Grange
Tom Harmon
Glen Davis
Johnny Lujack
John Clark
Mose) Simms
Johnny Jones
Mose Simms
Mose
Harvard
Yale
Michigan
Wigwam Wisemen of America
Oklahoma City
Okla
Simms
Memphis
Mississippi River
California
North Carolina
Connecticut
Arizona
Idaho
Oklahoma
Massachusetts
Florida
All America
How It Began James Hansom’s Safe Cab Invention
A London coach accident prompts James Hansom to invent a light two wheeled Patent Safety Cab. The design, bought for ten thousand pounds, led to the era of hansom cabs that replaced four wheel coaches and defined city transit for decades.
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James Hansom
London
The Wind Sings Wire Hums and Animal Facts
A compact set of curiosities explain wind making wires sing not electricity, debunk a hoop snake myth, define khaki from its linguistic roots, and note that birds like parrots cuckoos and kingfishers wear two toes forward and two back. The text also answers fur hunting at the Antarctic as no land mammals exist there.
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Antarctic
South Pole
Basle Clocks and the Lesson of Ten Minute Gains
A medieval tale from Basle in 1431 shows clocks shifted ahead by an hour, causing confusion when visitors checked their own time. To fix, Basle moved the hands back half a minute daily, but many forgot. After seventeen years the time finally matched. The piece urges using ten minutes daily for learning or hobbies, stressing the value of small, consistent effort.
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Basle
France
Germany
Puzzle Pete Reveals Four French Cities Hidden in Rebus
The puzzle hides four French cities using a rebus formed by a diamond centered on CORSICA. By solving the rows SAY O IF CABBY NEAT RAIN TOE ITEM FAN COO JAR and the clues male offspring, seraglio, artless, and frozen water, you identify cities connected to Corsica and France.
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Pete
France
Caucasus
Thumb-Nail Sketch of a 19th Century President
The sketch describes a U S president born in Delaware Ohio on October 4 1822 a Harvard Law School graduate who practiced in Cincinnati and joined the Federal army as a major of volunteers at the Civil War start. He narrowly defeated Samuel J Tilden by one electoral vote and after retirement contributed to education and prison reform. He died January 17 1893 in Fremont Ohio.
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United States
Delaware
Ohio
Harvard Law School
Cincinnati
Federals
Samuel J. Tilden
Fremont
Captain Hal Shows Ways to Organize Movie Star Scraps
Barbara Jean Hawke of Waterloo Iowa writes about a scrapbook hobby featuring movie stars. She mentions methods used by youths to collect photos from newspapers magazines and ice cream lid pictures. Readers aged 11 to 17 seek pen pals and promise to reply to letters.
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Captain Hal
Waterloo
Iowa
Hollywood
Barbara Jean
Hidden Sports Lingo Quiz Reveals Codes and Clues
A series of vignette questions highlights how sports terms and slang conceal game references across various scenes. From paddling grips to wrestling pins and sailing jargon, readers deduce the sport behind the coded language and imagery.
Catfish and Kitty Use Whiskers to Find Food
A story explains how Kitty the cat and Tom Catfish both use whiskers to sense space and taste prey. Cat uses whiskers to judge passage width, while Tom Catfish glides along the bottom with barbels touching food and stopping instantly when a nibble is detected.
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Kitty
France Trivia Puzzles and Sports List Reprint
Puzzle prompts include France tied to Mount Blanc height Bay of Biscay Marie Antoinette and Joan of Arc. Rebus reads Ca lais Caen Lyons Cherbourg. Hayes is noted as the nineteenth U S president. Sports list covers tennis baseball wrestling boxing boating.
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Bay of Biscay
Marie Antoinette
Joan of Arc
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Mississippi
Cream of America
Bill Zimmerman
Carmen Dickinson
Bill
Mr. Hansom
BY Lee Priestley
James Alposius Hansom
Hansom
Cabby
I. R. Hegel
Cal
Louisiana
Corsica
Coo
Rebus
BY AL Karalfa
Zoo's Who
EL Legarto
Turkey
Australia
Barbara Jean Hawke
Hal
Mary Cronin
Nashua, Iowa
Odelle Morelock
Rogersville
Tennessee
Frank
Elliot
Maylie
Phils
BY Evva Brinker
Europe
Serai
NAIVE
Calais
Caen
Lyons
Cherbourg
Rutherford Birchard Hayes
U. S
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