Spy on Church Island Heads to Midnight Harbor Mystery
Bruce and Newt barge onto Church Island to learn why signals flash from a lighthouse and a German U boat lurks offshore. They follow a perilous arc from a boat to a bluff, deducing a possible spy in Mr Henkie’s house and edging toward a dangerous Appalachian coast confrontation.
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Bruce ,Lownsend
Newt Winter
Mr. Henkie
Rich Total Wanker
Permii Seeutean
Charen Island
Bir
Seavoast
Urey
Mr. Menkle
Jook Church Island
Lund
Church Island
Newt
Henkie
Bruce
Prompt Attention to Minor Hurts Prevents Dangerous Complications
Summer safety guidance stresses treating small injuries promptly. Instructions cover bleeding, washing, iodine, splinters removal, bandaging, burns cold water and pastes, eye splinters, and avoiding cluttered stairs. Emphasizes common sense care to prevent complications and urges medical help for serious injuries.
Defense Blunders What Is Being Done In This Picture
The caption warns of dangerous actions shown that threaten national defense. It directs readers to seek the answer on another part of the page, implying a safety or security issue illustrated by the image.
Riddles Accepted for print by the Riddle Man
A feature invites readers to submit riddles with name credits. Five entries appear: Why didn't they play cards on the Ark by Vlarold R Manning. What is the largest room in the world by Bertha Sanford. When may a man be said to breakfast before he gets up by Daeve Niles. When does a ship tell a false head by trleen Whiden. What is it that a man doesn't have newers can have yet can give to a woman by Betty Sne Moore.
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New York
Bruce
Petro
Baltimore
Newt
Vlarold R. Manning
Bertha Sanford
Daeve Niles
Trleen Whiden
Betty Sne Moore
Wings for Youth Learn Sheet Metal Work at Aeronautical School
A dialogue between Dulcie and Joan highlights girls taking a sheet metal course at a nearby aeronautical school. The article explains metal aircraft parts, precision tools, and potential career paths from technician to executive, with pay from 5 83 to 5 0 a day and notes readers should request more details via mail.
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Joan
Dulcie
Victory Cadette Club Supports Troops With War Stamps
Ruth Barber and 14 members plus 28 sponsors form the Victory Cadette Club at a Florida high school. They write to armed services, send books and hometown papers, print their own paper, sew and knit Red Cross work, make a Friendship quilt for a base hospital, bake treats for servicemen, create strapbooks, host social activities, and serve as junior USO hostesses. Each member buys War Stamps weekly under the slogan Keep em Smiling and Theyll Keep em Flying.
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Ruth Barber
Route 2
Orlando
Florida
Victory Cadette Club
Armed Services
Red Cross
Soc
USO
Finding Good Ash for Making Baseball Bats Is Problem Today
A 19th or early 20th century note explains that second growth white ash from post cut trees yields the best bats. After logging, ash is barked sawn and cut to length, inspected by buyers, shipped to factories, then finished with oil wax shellac and a burnished finish for a smooth burnt appearance.
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Touok
Ereat Sporting Goods
Passenger Question on Bus Stop at Ritsmore Motel
The dialogue notes a passenger asking if the bus stops at the Ritsmore Motel and the driver replying no. The exchange implies the bus serves other routes and does not include that motel in its stop list.
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Ritsmore Motel
Tt Ma
Special Stakes and Wickets Add to Fun of Croquet
A playful croquet guide suggests replacing wire wickets and end stakes with circus character shapes. It covers making oversized patterns from 1-inch grid enlargements, cutting from 347 thick wood, using dowels for crosspieces and ground stakes, painting with enamel, waterproofing with shellac, and storing in a box to keep colors bright.
Crying Woman and Boy Exchange Lament in Contributed Line
A brief stamped exchange between a woman and a boy is reported as a contributed line by Esther Bonville. The dialogue shows the woman expressing tears and the boy asserting his ownership of his own space and emotions.
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Esther Bonville
Fragmentary notes on Noah Gewause and a roll in bed
Fragmented OCR lines mention Noah Gewause on a deck, a phrase about Neooum for improvement, and a unclear line about him at a roll in bed. A stray reference to a husband appears. The text is incomplete and lacks coherent events or identifiable dates.
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Gewause
Noah
Neooum
Wnehor
But you know Mary a warning on reliability
The passage notes the phrase but you know Mary used when someone is late or fails to keep a promise. It argues that Mary is not reliable and emphasizes the value of doing what you say in every war, urging readers to cultivate a dependable reputation through consistent action.
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Mary
Your War Work letter prompt for youth volunteers
A wartime note urges readers to act safely if clothing catches fire by covering the mouth and rolling to extinguish flames. It calls for submissions to the Boys and Girls Page under the Your War Work program, offering a dollar in prizes for each published letter.
Green Tomato and Pepper Relish Recipe Winner Notes
The Kitchenette Jorbelle Jones of Prickett Avenue Edwardsville Illinois sends this week’s relish recipe selected as a best. It uses 10 green tomatoes green peppers red peppers white onions celery stalk Italian or Hungarian peppers mustard seed whole cloves vinegar salt. Grind soak drain flavor with spices and vinegar then heat and pour over vegetables before packing in a gallon jar.
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Jorbelle Jones
Prickett Avenue
Edwardsville
Ilinois
Puzzle Fans Hide Two Auto Parts In Sentence
A word chain puzzle asks players to transform PAMP to TIRE and LAMP to PARK in five moves while identifying clues like radiator, pear shaped fruit, and wheel parts. Hidden auto parts are concealed in the sentence “Low heels are stylish, after all.”
Riddled Missing Words Trick Turns On Pronunciation
A playful sentence hides words spelled and sounded identical but swapped meanings. May's father warned he would her if she turned the ignition off while the engine ran, prompting a test of word choice and homophones.
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May
Crossword Puzzle Solution Clues Echo Hidden Words
Puzzle solution lists several word groupings including com cad canon candles closed Ned Siren curtain here Warden notice WINE wane cane care CASE TAP tag tag les KEG.
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Iservices
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Lordship
Neve
AGAWA
Tellers Cage
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Lord Bugg
Count DE Change
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Wings For Youth
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King’s Counsel
Fey
Paris
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