Skelton Faces Old Nickname Stirring Locker Room Rivalries
In Greenmount High basketball tale, star Johnny Skelton and teammates discuss seizing a district title as locker room rivalries flare. Eddie Jackson reveals Johnny’s old nickname Skunky after a party mishap, provoking a dramatic confrontation and setting up a cliffhanger for next week.
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Uddy Aldridge
Don Young
Johnny Skelton
Buddy
Don
Greenmount High
Johnny
Hamburg Steak With Mushroom Sauce from Aunt Peggy
A kitchenette feature credits Linda Troilo of Harrison New York for a prize winning Hamburg steak with mushroom sauce. Lean beef cakes browned in butter with a mushroom stock sauce, served over a bed of parsley garnished meat cakes.
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Linda Troilo
Soulard Street
Harrison
New York
Orange Is Cut to Show Coin Inside That's Real Magic
Betty Jane Carnes of Stillwater Oklahoma is this week's winner in our tricks column. Her submission shows a magic orange illusion where a coin appears inside the fruit after cutting. The coin is a glued dime hidden on the knife blade, revealed as the orange halves fall apart.
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Betty Jane Carnes
Duncan Street
Stillwater
Oklahoma
Betty Jane
Heart and Arrow Puzzle For Friends
A walnut heart half an inch thick and a pine arrow one inch thick form a DIY puzzle. Trace the heart on walnut, bore a half inch center hole, bevel toward center, and cut out. Round edges with knife or sandpaper, then shape the arrow to one inch by one inch by one inch.
How to Thread an Arrow Through a Heart Shape
The guide describes shaping a round headed arrow to fit a beveled heart hole. Soak the arrow in boiling water to soften it, push it through the hole, then let it dry to restore shape. Flatten slightly if desired. the arrow then cannot be removed.
Frosh Seeks Corduroy Pants Buy Prompted by Clerk
A playful class note asks for a corduroy pants buy rather than rental. The student jokes about asking Aunt Peggy for a recipe and hints at a contest run by the newspaper. Eligibility requires contestants to be under 18.
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Peggy
The Boy Is Father to the Person You Become
An editorial piece argues that childhood habits shape adulthood, citing the saying The boy is father to the man and its feminine parallel The girl is mother to the woman. It suggests self awareness and early change determine future character.
Pointers on Pets by Horace Mitchell
Guidance on shipping dogs, cats, and canaries between towns. Choose a roomy crate with water and food access, seek Railway Express Agency advice, and use outside bags for fast refills. Include clear crate labeling and consider truck transport if feasible.
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Railway Express Agency
Express Agency
Riddles Quiz Puts Minds to Task with Classic Puzzles
A collection of five riddles tests wit and wordplay. The items pose questions about strength length and daily life figures, with attributions to Susan Tinkemeyer Josephine Carey Virginian Doblar Sadie May Johnson and Elsie May Holtser.
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Susan Tinkemeyer
Josephine Carey
Virginian Doblar
Sadie May Johnson
Elsie May Holtser
Kay's Corner: Scrapbook ideas for history and humor
Katherine Houison suggests building scrapbooks from hometown oddities old papers and photos. Collect unusual facts about local history humorous printing mistakes advertising slogans slang terms and memorable signboards to create a lasting, value-growing collection.
Grand Junction Teen Turns Bug Spraying Into a $1 Win
Walker House, 14, is Grand Junction Tennessee’s top bug exterminator. He builds an hourly rate of 35 cents after buying poison wholesale and using a 3 gallon sprayer on gardens. His service spreads through town, earning a weekly prize and sparking interest in fruit tree spraying. He attends Grand Junction High School and enjoys reading and bicycling.
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Walker
Tennessee
Grand Junction
Grand Junction High School
Answers to Riddles Column
A quirky puzzle item lists five riddles with playful garbled clues. The first hints at a rope, the second mentions making glasses from four d lass es, the third is a fragmented phrase, the fourth is a mystery number, and the fifth delivers a strange line about pees and a tle.
Poser Quiz on Central American Travel and Geography
Questions cover Panama Canal first oceangoing steamship date location of British Guiana language spoken in Brazil river lengths compare Amazon ranking Patagonia location Cape Horn sailing around the Horn longest country Ecuador meaning of its name in South America.
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Latin America
Panama Canal
British Guiana
Central
South America
Brazil
Amazon River
North
Patagonia
Horn
Ecuador
Answers to posers from 1214 with geography notes
Answers to Posers 1 August 3 1214 include South America east coast language Portuguese and a note on river lengths. The Amazon is largest by volume, Mississippi-Missouri length exceeds it. Mentions Patagonia Cape Horn Chile and the Equator in concise geographic clues.
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South America
Amazon River
Patagonias
Cape Horn
Chile
George Washington Birthday Proverb Illustrated
A historical caption notes February as the month to honor George Washington. The pictured illustration accompanies a proverb linked to what Washington himself observed and taught about the occasion.
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George Washton
Fragmented riddle text of a word puzzle in a historic page
The passage presents a riddle about word forms and spelling variations including phrases like all of the states building was spent on the building and behead a limb to get a farm west. It also mentions a beheaded small body of water leading to a smell strong and hints at a forgotten or damaged puzzle style from a newspaper page.
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Hanover
Don
Egbert
District Guard
Johnny
Buddy
Dolores
Crossword Clue Lined List of Terms
Across clues include a fruit a woody plant bone of the body an indefinite article District Attorney Abbe Repeat ripped a relate female Able seaman Abbr Buenos Aires Abbr Flat server and more Down clues include Abbr for time Gate Open footwear dull colorless Spanish word for the the Preposition from Another for Evil Latin for you Biblical language for you
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Buenos Aires
Teacher and Willie Joke About Cowhide Uses
A classroom quip has a teacher asking for cowhide uses and Willie replying that cowhide keeps cows together, turning a simple lecture into a light moment.
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Willie
True to His Country Excerpt Dialogue Fragments
Dialog fragments show Mrs Mald asking about cause of death and Mrs Flannigan replying gangrene. Mrs Malone offers thanks, reflecting wartime sentiment.
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Reenmount
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Hartsville
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Buddy Aldridge
Eddie Jackson
Eddie
Johnny Here
Squire
Whirl Wynn
Wynn
Frazier Thomas
Miss Jane
Horace Mitchell
Shipping Pets
Canaries
Associated Editors
Kay’s Corner
By Katherine Houison
Money Makers
Bugs
Posers
Washington
Virginia
Bess
Pacific Ocean
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