Secrets Not for Sale In Angus plant suspense grows over missing prints
Tom Hathaway discovers a foreign stranger offers to buy plans for a new air motor. Tim is suspected of leaking the designs as Tom and Martha worry while Tim’s strange meetings continue. Tom seeks the guard to seal the vault as he races to uncover who is behind the plot.
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Tom Hathaway
Machine Company
Tim
George An
Tom
Ter
Jae
Tong
M Ie
Mr. Hann
Peops
Tom Grees
Jorge Meyer
Mr. Hanson
Ashington
Meyer
Mr. Meyer
Mr. Jones
Probhe
George Meyer
Washington
Angus
Martha
John
Handkerchief Born In Flame Brings Boy Magic Prize
An old newspaper item describes a magic trick prize project by Frazier Thomas offering a book of Magic and an autographed picture to readers who submit clever tricks witnessed in performances. Thomas Beal of Memphis is connected to the mailings and the trick involves pulling a silk handkerchief from a candle flame.
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Thomas Reynolds Beal
Memphis
Tennessee
Frazier Thomas
Tommie Beal
Rick
Recipe for Date Nut Cake and Kitchenette Prize
A recipe for date nut cake with cream cheese spread appears alongside an Aunt Peggy contest note offering a weekly one dollar prize for readers under eighteen. The narrative excerpts describe a man waiting near a plant, finding an open gate and an unseen watchman, ending with To Be Continued Next Week.
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Peggy
Tom
Old John
Carrier Pigeons Cover Important News and War Messages
Article details how carrier pigeons aid armies and newspapers by carrying messages in emergencies and from front lines. It highlights wartime use, speed advantages, historical feats, and peaceful journalism applications including photo film and live freight experiments with a canary aboard Braddock the pigeon.
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Wilfred Brown
United States Army
America
New England
Connecticut Valley
Hartford
New York
Atlantic
Pacific
Elizabeth
N. J
Margaret Gillen
Jay “Ding” Darling
Darling
National
Braddock
New York City
Margaret
Be as Fearless as a Baby Says The Editor
Scholars note babies fear only falling and loud noises at birth. Many adults fear dogs water teachers or failing tests, wasting energy and hindering performance. Caution is wise but constant fretting is harmful. aim to face danger calmly and act boldly like a fearless baby.
Bridge Prizes and Good Manners in Humorous Exchange
Jones jokes about bringing cookbooks as bridge prizes to avoid a trip downtown. Brown defends the choice while a professor notes music is better with eyes shut and a student adds it is enhanced when nearby talkers also stay quiet.
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Jones
Belt Making Helps Stillwater Girl Earn Spending Money
Elna Nickels of Stillwater Oklahoma describes belt weaving at home using carpet warp or rayon threads and a loom. She threads 20 black strings with 10 red white and blue and 20 more black to fashion belts selling for 50 to 75 cents and earns a weekly prize for her letter.
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Elna Nickels
East Ninth Ave
Stillwater
Oklo
Elna
Spinning Top Made From Cardboard and Paint
A six inch cardboard spinning top with six colored segments red orange yellow green blue purple is described. The circle is divided into six equal parts and painted with opaque bright colors. A spinning peg is fashioned from a dowel with a pointed end for spinning.
Color Changing Spinning Top Puzzle Dazzles Reader
A playful description explains making a color changing top with a sharpened pencil and a glue secured post. It notes how colors merge while spinning and separate as it slows, then hints at variations and related word and diamond puzzles with turtle themed wordplay and hidden seafood clues.
Drill Sergeant's Joke About Coastin During Situps
An officer orders a drill exercise and tells recruits to lie on their backs and pedal like a bicycle. One man named Casey stops and explains he is coast ing, prompting a reminder and a brief moment of humor.
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Casey
Riddle submissions from readers invite publishing names
Local paper invites readers Norman Lodge Barbara Jenning Theresa Sweeney Rose Mary Wood Lucille Moore to write riddles for potential publication. Selected entries will have the contributor’s name printed in the paper.
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Norman Lodge
Barbara Jenning
Theresa Sweeney
Rose Mary Wood
Lucille Moore
Humorous exchange over a razor purchase at the barber
A customer asks for another razor to defend himself, prompting the barber to inquire why. The brief joke hinges on the mistaken implication of self defense through grooming tools.
Sinus Trouble Delays Vaudeville Act
Vaudeville pair laments sinus trouble kept them from movie work. Partner adds nobody would let them in due to the condition.
Riddle clues spark a quirky word puzzle
A list presents five clues about word plays featuring a railroad track a transformation into a pen the elder a phrase with accented letters and finally a candle The items read like hints for a riddle or crossword style puzzle inviting readers to solve each line.
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W. Boyce Morgan
Will Whirl Wynn
Willie
Associated Editors
Royanne Kirk
North Mills Street
Orlando
Flor
England
Philadelphia
Molly
By Elma Waltner
Tur
Lion
Toan
He-t O-N
Greace
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