Map Strategy at Home Readers Learn New World View
An article encourages children to become map strategists in their own rooms using a globe, maps, string, pins, and rulers. It explains planning air routes, calculating distances, and visualizing world geography to grasp shifts in navigation and travel.
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National Geographic Society
North America
Berlin
New York
Moscow
London
New York City
Europe
Asia
Santa's Sleigh Centerpiece Loaded With Goodies
Elma Waltner offers a holiday centerpiece project a child can help craft using wood or cardboard sleigh shapes. Pattern transfer tips, assembly steps, and paint guidance create a festive display filled with fruit, nuts, or candy.
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Santa’s
Apple Santa Clauses For Christmas Party Fun
Easy to make treats from apples marshmallows and peanuts to create Apple Santa Clauses for a holiday gathering. Select medium dark red apples roll out details with cloves ink and tissue paper caps. Fasten as a festive edible centerpiece.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julia Eva Freeman
Mike
Jonathan
Santa
Money Makers Editor Seeks Reader Money Tips
A Boys and Girls Page invites readers to share effective money making ideas. Submit detailed methods used by the writer to earn income. accepted letters win a $1 prize in War Stamps. Include practical steps and outcomes to be considered for publication.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beverly King
Elm Street
Macon. Ga
Beverly
Real Holy Day Meaning Of The Word Holiday
A reader questions the true meaning of holiday. It contrasts days off with a sacred purpose and notes Christmas as a special holy day requiring reverence rather than mere feasting. The editor signs off.
Instrument technician field offers romance and travel for handicapped youths
A short feature tells of a small, deformed boy who could not join air school but found purpose as an instrument technician. After training he served a year with an eastern airline, then sailed to Africa at war's start. The piece urges girls and boys with handicaps to consider this rewarding, accessible profession and invites readers to write for more information.
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Leorge
George
Africa
Riddles by Carol Ferne and others in a quiz
A list of humorous riddles credited to various writers including Carol Ferne Ford Virginia Thompson Betty DeVries Marietta Trene Downs and Betty Jane McCarty. The reader is asked about playful questions such as teeth and tongue functions coffee for a poor man and the difference between a cat and a comma.
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Carol Ferne
Carol Ferne Ford
Virginia Thompson
Betty DeVries
Marietta Trene Downs
Betty Jane MeCarty
Cup Fight for Boys Gathering
A lively stunt night game for boys uses two rows back to back with each player wearing a boxing glove and a tin cup with a stone. Players are blindfolded and must identify others by cup taps, keeping score of blows over a two minute period. most hits wins.
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Evm
Church Banned Mistletoe in Early Christian Beliefs
The article recalls mistletoe’s pagan origins and its medieval forbiddance by Christians due to its roots as a sacred tree. It notes myths from Norse and Druid traditions and traces how mistletoe came to symbolize happiness, safety, and good fortune when not placed underfoot.
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Christ
Britain
Candle Salad Recipe and Car Joke in One Page
A quirky kitchen note describes an Individual Candle Salad using a pineapple holder, banana wick, mayonnaise wax, and a maraschino cherry flame. It mentions a $100 prize draw and a casual Reader joke about the car radiator boil.
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Christina
War St
Puzzle text and word chains from a Christmas themed page
A fragmentary page presents a candle falling from a Christmas tree and a set of wordplay items. It includes across and down clues such as Gift, Negative prefix, Boy, and Chum, plus a note about transforming words like GIVE to TAKE and SOCK to FULL. It features garbled lines and partial word chains with references to landforms and insects.
Good Judgment Pun Features Two Halves Answer
A classroom exchange shows a student choosing two halves to inspect what lies inside, highlighting a dark joke about seeking hidden flaws. The dialogue contrasts a teacher’s prompt with Bobby’s pragmatic yet morbid reasoning about assessment and consequences.
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Bobby
Answers to last week puzzles provide quirky letter clues
A compact recap lists three items from the previous week’s brainteasers. The first item hints at handkerchiefs and a fountain pen with a zero cent hint. The second mixes names P. lor Wucre pockets Greta. The third confirms the crossword puzzle solution.
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P. Lor
Wucre
Pockets
Greta
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Bald State
Beclau
Mike Poprorneski
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Lis
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