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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1940
Page
17
A new series of printable fairy tale cutouts features Little Red Riding Hood stepping from classic stories into modern life. Children can color and cut out the character to create a complete set of paper dolls, with more figures arriving in upcoming releases.
Bob Collins obtained parental permission to run a local messenger service in Live Oak and later Jacksonville. He earned money by selling scrap iron to fund a bicycle, printed cards, and provided errands for neighbors. He eventually sold the bike when moving, keeping the earnings, plus a weekly prize for a money making idea.
A home craft notes a cushion made from seven discarded neckties. It describes selecting varied blue tones with patterns, cutting and pinning crescent-style tie ends, sewing them to a gray background, finishing edges, and stuffing with worn hose if no cushion form is available.
A set of five reader supplied riddles prompts quirky questions. Names accompanying each riddle include Mrs Bergie F Fox Dorothy Halterman Max Jerome Walter Joan Tarver and Edna Douglass. The puzzle asks humorous, wordplay style questions about dogs trees Noah Ark Adam and sugar.
A list of items includes Queen Victoria and a shot at Concord, with mentions of an American colonists’ action, a kid, Lou Goarig, Tarkington, Carvel, a rear-seat paddler, and Walt Disney. The fragmentary notes imply a miscellany of historical figures and random names.
An invalid girl narrates making peanut dolls as a hobby. She shapes heads from peanut halves, draws features, adds limbs from wire and matchsticks, and dresses them with tissue paper. She expands to animals and a Peanut Family complete with 24 dolls, many with blue eyes and brown hair.
Daisy Welch, an invalid girl from Bradford Pennsylvania, earns blue ribbon at the New York World’s Fair for peanut dolls and gains note on Hobby Lobby radio. She creates art music poetry drawings stamps and small hectographed greeting pictures despite eye trouble and long work breaks.
A cheerful yarn poodle pincushion tutorial describes crafting a small decorative dog from white or colored yarn. It explains wrapping, stitching, and assembling a head ears eyes nose tongue body and tail using paper cardboard and silk sock, with simple finishing touches.
A cross eyed batter faces a pitcher who throws to first base three times to force a rundown, resulting in a strikeout. The odd play highlights the quirks of a tense inning and the unusual fielding rhythm.
A columnist urges readers to make definite plans for the summer break. Whether working, reading, playing, or camping, focus on one concrete goal to gain value and finish September knowing the vacation was well spent.
Aunt Peggy Glendora Kramer of Marquette Kansas shares a Honey Diamonds recipe with a one dollar prize for each published entry. The instructions detail measuring sifted flour baking soda salt cinnamon cream butter sugar honey eggs milk and nuts, bake twenty five minutes, frost and cut into diamonds.
A set of eight questions challenges memory across history, literature, sports, cinema, and myth. Questions cover imperial titles, famous sounds, animal names, records, authors, mythical towns, canoe steering, and the creator of Mickey Mouse.
The list presents five clues with answers: farthest from the bark, on the head, if she would throw it it would break, he raised Cain, and mistletoe.
Summer safety guidance urges careful water use with rules on eating before swimming, staying near safety, limiting time in water, and not swimming alone. The advice stresses that following these guidelines reduces the risk of cramps exhaustion and drownings in water activities.
The page offers a puzzle corner with clues about diplomas and gowns. It features a word square themed around a gown and mentions an imaginary monster a written document and items used by fishermen. It includes anagram and pronunciation wordplay and asks for completing a sentence and unscrambling mixed words.
A farmer asks a boy what he’s doing in the tree and the boy answers that a sign to keep off the grass is down below. The exchange captures rural humor and a misread rule.
A country boy answered the physiology exam with a humorous adage on posture: "Keep the cows off it and let it grow up awhile." The quip reflects a rural wit over a formal health guideline.
Column fragment listing puzzle answers including bass horn clarinet tuba violin piccolo bells cernes oboe bend once and the note that crossword puzzle solution follows. No dates or locations provided.
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