Autogyro Duster Showdown Fueled by Doubt
George Harker and his brother Lynn fight to prove the autogyro windmill dusting system can outproduce Cyclone’s rivals. Hooks, a deceitful pilot, pressures Brentley to doubt the windmill as a safe, reliable method. George uncovers tampering and plans a demo to secure support and funding.
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Eorge Harker
Lynn
George
Lynn Harker
Baloney
Harkers
Mr. Brentley
Brentley
Harker
Hooks
Seorge
Cyclone Dust Co
Mle
Cyclone
Lyon
Shorty
Navy three classes of training for recruits and career paths
Wings for Youth notes Navy training is divided into Class A land courses for new recruits in five subjects, Class B land courses for active duty with fourteen subjects, and Class C on ship or land centers offering twenty seven correspondence subjects. Aptitude and desire matter. good arithmetic and English help. Contact recruiting officer or write I. Hegel for more details.
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Dick Hainer
Columbus
Ohio
Navy
I. &. Hegel
War service stamp drive aids London hospital
Carrol C. Hall urges boys and girls to join a war service project collecting cancelled postage stamps. Stamps fund care for patients at a London hospital, with prices listed in pounds and cents. Schools and clubs are asked to collect stamps from envelopes, leaving borders and avoiding soaked stamps. Packaged stamps go to Mrs. Edgar Leonard in New York for shipment to Britain.
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Carrol C. Hallation
Atlantic
London
On’s Hospital
New Jersey
Edgar Leonard
Britain
England
Your War Work Contest Promises War Lamps as Prizes
The piece invites readers to submit steps for Your War Work on the Girls Page, offering a prize of one dollar in War lamps for each published step. It signals engagement with the home front effort and community participation through a period-appropriate wartime feature.
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Elma Walther
George
Lynn
Tion
War Work: Sutters Run Garage Flower Shop for Victory
Elizabeth M Sut ter contributes to the war effort by running a garage flower shop with a friend in Columbus Indiana. All earnings are donated to Bundles for Bluejackets. She has already received a $1.00 War Stamp prize sent for her contribution to victory. Elizabeth lives at 2633 Riverside Drive.
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Elizabeth M. Sutter
Elizabeth
Riverside Drive
Columbus
Indiana
Riverside Flower Shop supports Bluejackets funds drive
The Riverside Flower Shop, named by the girls as a community project, grows part of its bouquets and buys others from nearby woods. Bouquets sell for 25 cents and corsages for 10 cents, featuring violets pansies painted daisies columbine and violas. They raised $15 for Bundies for Bluejackets last year and aim higher this year.
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Riverside Flower Shop
Sportsmanship and the value of good losers in sports
The Editor laments poor sportsmanship and urges players to love the game, credit opponents, and accept losses gracefully. He warns that whining about conditions and constant kicking reveal a person as unattractive and contemptible, while stressing that winning isn't everything.
Defense Blunders What is being done in this picture
A cryptic prompt questions dangerous acts to national defense. The page mocks teachers and uses wordplay about geometry and angle worms, blending satire with unclear intent and no verifiable events.
Agrostologists Are Grass Students- And Glad of It
Katherine Houisen outlines grass collecting as a hobby for youth. Start with a loose-leaf book, mount specimens with shellac, and label names. Collect lawn grasses like Kentucky bluegrass and Bermuda, and broaden to cereals and hay grasses. Preserve specimens with a window or shellac for shows.
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United States
Bermuda
Gas Bombs and Mask Response Instructions
Historical note outlines identification of gas bombs causing small blasts and prescribes immediate protective actions. It advises wearing a gas mask if available or using cotton pads soaked in washing soda placed at nostrils with a bandage, and to avoid breathing through the mouth.
The Kitchenette Hard Candy Taffy Prize Notice
A recipe for honey taffy with sugar water and vanilla is shared urging doubling for guests. Betty Jean Seabert of Kenton Ohio receives credit and a prize of War Stamps. Cook to 288 F, pour onto a buttered platter, pull until white. nuts may be added.
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Betty Jean Seabert
Kenton
Ohio
Puzzle Corner: Word Chains and Homophones
A compact puzzle page asks for word chains from LEAF to BARK in five steps and SEED to CONE in five, with across clues including A luscious fruit and Destiny. a paragraph notes The fog hung over the like a white with a phonetic twist.
Picture Word Square Warm in the Summer Puzzle
A word square puzzle uses mat words with clues. The second word is a surface of land the third holds a horse and the fourth is a lion's hair, all beginning with mat. The warm season line hints at the solution.
Realist artist Dauber faces fresh critics
An artist remarks on Dauber's realism, noting his work seems so true that apples he painted six weeks ago are now described as rotten by critics.
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Dauber
Answers to Last Week's Puzzles
Puzzle page fragment lists answers and wordplay examples with items such as Sloan yawl bark carboat and a set of jumbled sequences like RY rep ormanges recnita petty aUheon and DUCK dock tock Tuck foom BOOM REEF reed seed send sand said SAIL plus a note Crossword Puzzle Solution.
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Sloan
Yawl Bark
Carboat
RY Rep
Ormanges
Recnita
Petty
Reed
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Bert Sackett
Elis
Wings For Youth
I. R. Hegel
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Lady Bugg
der Precious
Joos
Dos
Lord Bugg
Buggs
Associated Editors
By Katherine Houisen
Aunt Porgy
Honey Taffy
Ian
Upper Canada
Matt
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