Travel Town draws crowds with transport relics in Griffith Park
In 1952 Los Angeles opened Travel Town in Griffith Park under the park department. The museum showcases early locomotives trolley cars and other transport relics for youths and adults. Highlights include Taft's presidential train No 3025 the 1908 Stanley Steamer and a $20000 Rolls Royce once owned by the Russian czar.
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Los Angeles
Griffith Park
Travel Town
City Recreation and Park Department
United States
Park Department
Rolls-Royce
Russia
Southern Pacific Railway Company
William Howard Taft
California
Safe Summer Fun Safety Quiz Highlights
A Beatrice J Latimer guide asks 12 true false questions on beach water and outdoor safety. It contrasts even numbered items answered yes with odds as no noting reasons and parent explanations.
Planning a Dog Breed Photo Identification Activity
Aimed at kids, draft a list of animal pictures to use. Include dog breeds and general animals. Prepare a step by step dictateable list so each student can copy, number the items, and hold them up to test recognition. Use a dog book for breed pictures as a resource.
Grow Parsley In A Sponge Window Garden
Grow parsley by placing seeds in a moist sponge. Tie a long string to the sponge and hang it in a kitchen window. Keep the sponge damp to nurture colorful, practical herb growth for garnishes.
Finish Pete’s Column Word Triangle Puzzle
Puzzle Pete’s word triangle asks for six words with clues. The second word is thus the third a number the fourth dispatched the fifth to pester and the sixth mental faculties. Provide a completed triangle matching the puzzle’s theme and punctuation.
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Pete
One's Contest One's Contest Crossword
Across clues list: 1 Cotton bundles 6 Struck and rebounded 8 Rowing tool 9 Frozen water 10 Roadside stopping place 11 Reverend abbr 13 Compass point 16 Exhausted 18 Puff up Down clues: 1 Sheep's bleat 2 Reaching of destination 3 Behold 4 Distinguished 5 Dry as wine 6 Company abbr
Shells Over Pearls Drive Australia’s Pearl Industry Revival
Off Australian islands Broome Onslow Darwin and Thursday Island shell prices hit new highs as pearling rebounds postwar. Divers face bends risks while shell production sustains the trade. United States buyers dominate the world market, with yearly output around 3 500 tons of pearl shell.
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Broome
Onslow
Darwin
Australia
Thursday Island
United States
Word Puzzle Clue Series With Letter Scrambles
A crossword style prompt presents cryptic instructions: subtract a letter from a Texas city to form a dinner course, then subtract a letter again to yield youths, repeat to get sorrowful and then while. It lists clues 7 Down East 11 Road 12 Before 14 View 15 Boy's nickname 17 Indian Army abbr. and asks for successive scrambles.
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Indian Army
Texas
Campy the Disobedient Seahorse Seeks Real Adventure
Campy a three inch greenish black seahorse longs for the world above the ocean. He outsmarts a hungry ugly fish and a crushing net with courage learned from Father Sea Horse. He escapes, returns home, and joins his siblings in play with new spirit.
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Campy
Hippocampus
Father Sea Horse
Sea Horse
Captain Hal Pen Pal Page Seeks Young Readers
A Pen Pal request page invites children to mail names ages and addresses to Captain Hal care of the newspaper. Readable letters show kids from Akron Barberton Warren Gordon Pikeville Cantwell with ages 8 to 11 seeking pen pals in Hollywood New York North Dakota and other places.
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Hal
Hollywood
Calif
Bonnie Sue Dawson
Newton St
Akron
Ohio
New York
Debby Muhleisen
Sunnybrook Dr
Warren
Charles Borosos
North Dakota
West Summit Street
Barberton
Riddle of an animal kin to the cat
I am a riddle asking for a five letter animal related to the cat. Each clue reveals a letter: first in foot not head gives F, second in pink not red gives I, third in pig not cow gives G, fourth in eye not brow gives E, fifth in rod and rat gives R. The assembled word is F I G E R. The animal kin to the cat is a tiger.
Vacation Code Secret: Shift Letters By One For Secret Messages
A notebook tutorial explains a simple one letter shift to encode postcards. Write the alphabet twice with the second line shifted one place, so A becomes B and Z becomes A. Example plain See you soon encodes as TFF ZPV TPPO.
How to Sew a Doll Sleeping Bag
Instructions to make a sleeping bag for a doll from cloth. Measure doll length, cut two U shaped pieces with staggered widths, create a split from top to bottom, cut necklines, sew shoulder seams sides and bottom, turn inside out, finish neckline with bias tape or crochet, and add multiple bags for more dolls.
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Beatrice J. Latimer
Animal Fun
Sper ‘Prres ‘Seyeyd
Sua'ld
Wvuos Nollovulens
Sasnus
Atonveall
Sayoyes
Africa
India
Mediterranean
Perenne
Northland
Ida F. Killian
Frances
Alice Jane Morgan
East State St
Mary Jane Platterer
Gordon, Wis
Steve Hawley
Box
Pikeville
N.C
Gene Winch
P.O
Cantwell
Newspaper Enterprise Association
U.S.A
By Bill Arter
Blarter
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