Beavers Help Restore Watersheds With Dam Building
Dozens of beavers transplanted to mountain streams repair damage to watersheds in Idaho and other states. They build water tight dams four feet high creating ponds that store moisture, prevent floods, and support plant and wildlife, with government agencies funding the program and noting each beaver can yield substantial ecological benefits.
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Wilfred Brown
Forest Rangers
Idaho
Interior Department Division of Grazing
United States Biological Survey
Idaho State Game Department
United States
Ally
Canada
Reader Earns $25 A Week Walking Dogs In High School
Gerald Gordon of South Hadley Massachusetts started a dog walking service by approaching businessmen in a park offering three daily walks. He advertised with rubber stamped cards, gained steady clients, and by Christmas oversaw many dogs earning him up to twenty five dollars weekly alongside other work.
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Gerald Gordon
South Hadley
Mass
Gordon
How Have You Made Money and Your Age
A brief letter to the editor asks readers on the Boys and Girls Page to share how they earn money and their age. It promises a $1.00 prize if published.
Hills that Look Steep
A piece about how fears of difficult tasks shrink after starting. It compares climbing a hill to facing challenges, noting that initial steepness seems daunting, but progress makes the climb easier. Starting reveals the true ease at higher effort, ending with the idea that fear fades once you begin.
Six Man Football Squads Need 9 to 14 Players
The article explains squad sizes depend on schedule. A full schedule against experienced players needs about 14, while six or seven games allow nine or ten. It notes substitutes are important and emphasizes safe substitution, conditioning, and key player roles for quarterback center fullback halfback ends and kicking.
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Aoe
Kay's Corner teaches a simple utility bag from awning fabric
Katherine Honison shows how to make a versatile bag from lightweight awning material using a half yard. Cut four inch handles, hem ends, sew sides, form and attach handles inside the hem, turn right side out, and optionally weave wood supports with braided cord for a sturdy bag.
Doggy Dramas Present The Sweetheart of Sigma Ki
Sigma Ki stage presents Julie Belle in Scene 4 with tense romantic entanglements and rival affections. The playful melodrama centers on love rivalry and loyalties as the cast performed in a lively campus theater setting.
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Sigma Ki
Berwyn recipe prize winner shares zwieback bake
Mildred Kaspar of Berwyn Illinois posted a prize winning recipe. The directions mix zwieback cottage cheese eggs flour sugar cream vanilla and butter then bake in a slow oven for 60 to 75 minutes. The $1 prize has been sent.
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Mildred Kaspar
S. Highland Avenue
Berwyn
Illinois
Hop-the-Block Game Requires Agility and Simple Play
Place wooden blocks in a row on the floor. Players hop over the blocks on one foot, starting at one end and hopping to the opposite end and back. On the return trip, the player must pick up the blocks as they hop over.
Riddles in Today's List Prompt Readers to Send In
A brimming page asks readers to send their riddles to the Riddle Man for printing with the submitter’s name. It lists five sample lines by Bev erley Moore Eunice Angenbright Louis Hargett Emogene Blanton Patty Teets and invites readers to share puzzles when the teacher is free.
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Joan of Arc
Beverley Moore
Eunice Angenbright
Louis Hargett
Emogene Blanton
Patty Teets
Magic Card Rises From Glass and Wins Prize for Reader
Reader column details a magic card illusion by Roland Baker. A freely chosen card rises from a glass after a soap prepared setup, with an optional back-to-back card swap and hidden transfer technique.
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West 15Th Street
Sioux City
Iowa
Roland Baker
Roland
Pointers on Pets By Horace Mitchell
Horace Mitchell advises pet owners to ease dogs from summer country routines to city life by gradually reducing food. He notes overfeeding leads to laziness and indigestion, and emphasizes allowing exercise while trimming portions to keep dogs energetic and healthy.
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Ned
Odd Facts From a Riddled Roster
A list of curious lines notes Joan of Arc as Maid of Orleans Noahs ark built of wood opinions about paper and a six gun. A riddle hints at blindness and sailing missteps and a final line suggests both come out at night.
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Maid of Orleans
Poser Quiz Questions and Challenge Lineup
A set of trivia prompts asks who Shylock is and how many dollars in an eagle, who Georgia was named for, where The Charge of the Light Brigade took place, Canada’s largest city, the discoverer of the Mississippi River, a definition of soothsayer, and the author of Paradise Lost. A dialogue fragment adds a father’s prize pledge and an ardent suitor’s request to see it.
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Shylock
Georgia
Light Brigade
Canada
Mississippi River
Merchant of Venice character in Crimean War context
A figure from Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice linked to a historical setting in the Crimean War. The prompt seems to mix names and places such as Montreal and De Soto with a term for a diviner. The fragment ends with Millon, suggesting a name or clue.
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George II of
England
Montreal & de Soto
Millon
Four football terms puzzle from a sports page
Four ball words and a captain themed word puzzle challenge readers. clues point to Ball end blanks forming terms, plus separate clues for time period deceived longing and racket, with emphasis on a captain’s role on a football team.
Crossword Puzzle Clues From a Historic Page
A compact puzzle list includes clues such as The Keystone state abbr barrier in a river exists abnormal temperature whirl relate era finished not on printer s measures companions pertaining to the mouth belonging to you behold utilize beside cat animal s lair average encountered bottom of the foot eee bug erasers Greek letter used in mathematic left guard unusual semi precious stone musical note mother kill small French coin native metal we Theatrical Booking Agent What s your name Timid Girl Looking for Work Miss Jenkins sir Theatrical Agent Do you expec to be called Miss Jenkins T G L F W Oh no sir I hand an alarm clock.
Answers to Last Week Puzzles Collection
Puzzle recap lists key solutions from the prior week including P words school football pumpkin and a scrambled set H mad Marie harvest one and T with REAP read ring EARS ears card coe ODN Wu ree plus a note on Crossword Puzzle Solution.
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H. Mad
Marie
Harvest
One
T. . Reap
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