Mystery around hard kicking football player at Rushton High
Dot meets Bob Leonard, new Rushton student, after a corridor collision. He carries her books and walks her home while hints about football and his past surface. A dramatic 40 yard kick over a high fence reveals his concealed athletic skill and unease, setting up a continuation.
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OT Parthmore
Rushton High School
Bob Leonard
Rushton
Dot
Howard Street
Jefferson
Bob
Philadelphia
Ashton
A Fresh Start for Students in New Year
The Editor urges students to renew good study habits at the start of the year. They emphasize consistent daily effort, avoiding lateness, and tackling Latin verbs and spelling tasks to raise grades and make families proud.
Alabama Girls Sell Cookies for Summer Vacation Fund
Georgia Phillips and Nina Forbes, two Birmingham youths, spent Saturdays for seven weeks baking Old Fashioned Tea Cookies at Georgia and Nina's homes. They sold to friends and customers, delivering by bicycle, to raise money for a summer trip to North Carolina and Washington, D C.
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Alabama
Georgia Phillips
Nina Forbes
Grove Place
Birmingham
Georgia
Nina
North Carolina
Washington, D. C
Pin money from enamel dipped clothes pins sale
Stuart D. Gamber, fifteen, Gainesville Florida, describes making money by buying clothes pins, dipping pin heads in enamel, bundling them, and drying on wire lines. He mixed remaining enamel colors to create variations that sold easily.
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Stuart D. Gamber
Gainesville
Fla
Make This Handy Sewing Box to Use as Welcome Gift
A vintage guide explains how to craft a compact sewing box as a Christmas gift. It covers material choices like black walnut, mahogany, or gum, assembly with glue and brads, shaping with a coping saw, fitting a sliding needle tray, adding brass hinges, and final sanding and varnishing for a polished finish.
Riddles From Readers Prompt a Colonial Wordplay
A set of five reader posed riddles appears with bylines Mary Elaine Nicola Dorothy Diekmann Merna Hines Mary Kimmage and Percy Dillard. The questions invite playful wordplay about bosses circles deserts and church builders.
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Mary Elaine Nicola
Dorothy Diekmann
Merna Hines
Mary Kimmage
Percy Dillard
The Kitchenette Desserts by Aunt Peggy
Margaret Richardson of 833 East Willamette Street Colorado Springs has created a new butter milk dessert recipe. A prize of 1.00 has already been sent to Margaret.
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Margaret Richardson
E. Willamette St
Colorado Springs
Col
Margaret
Frozen Pineapple Buttermilk Dessert
A simple dessert mixing 1 quart fresh buttermilk 1 cup sugar 1 small flat can crushed pineapple and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Stir sugar into buttermilk add remaining ingredients and stir well. Freeze in refrigerator until solid.
Pointers on Pets and a Mind Reading Trick
Horace Mitchell continues tips on aquarium setup including cleaning, gravel layouts, plant placement, water testing, and fish introduction. A second item describes a magician’s teacup coin trick explained as a confederate effect. The note credits Master James Miller, R.A., 2 Gap Pennsylvania, with praise for the mind reading routine.
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James Miller
Gap
Pennsylvania
Willie asks why others are here and what for
Willie questions the purpose of others being present and asks his father why they are there to help. The father affirms helping others is the goal.
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Willie
Recipe prize invites young cooks under eighteen
A contest offered by Aunt Pegey pays one dollar for each published recipe and encourages submissions from readers under 18, promising a chance to win if selected.
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Aunt Pegey
Piping Hot Eats Add Fun to an Autumn Picnic
Autumn picnics benefit from hot meals prepared over an open fire. Use a wire corn pepper to grill burgers and steaks when no fireplace is available. For a quick hot dish, heat canned spaghetti, corn, tomatoes, cheese, and seasonings, serve with buns and salad, followed by coffee or cocoa. Cookies or fruit make a simple dessert.
How Have You Made Money Your Letters to Editor Page
A reader advertises for letters to the editor of the Boys and Girls Page offering $1.00 for each published letter. It requests writers to state their age and to send today. The notice seeks personal stories about earnings.
Answers to riddles quick and clever style
Riddles solved: 1 Cowslip 2 The inside and outside 3 Every watch has a spring 4 One is the rector and the other the erector 5 He is trying to make a hog out of himself
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United States
Send your riddles to the Riddle Man for print
Send your best riddles to the Riddle Man via this newspaper for publication with your name. Submit concise original wordplay and a brief byline to be considered for next week’s pages.
Geographical quiz poser pack tests general knowledge
A set of eight geography and history questions asks: state of center of US, Everest height, US city on a coral reef, birthplace of the first newspaper, location of the Bridge of Sighs, nationality of a boy whose fox incident is recalled, cube root of 64, and the highest inhabited country by elevation.
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United States
Mt. Everest
Bridge of Sighs
Hereditary Explanations Highlight Family Occupations
A fragment notes a dialogue about hereditary traits with lines about a mother who was a telephone operator and a father who was a train announcer, suggesting a theme of inherited careers.
Answers to posers from Kansas prompt list
Answers to posers cover locations and figures including Kansas and Key West with several world cities. The list presents items such as 29 002 ft, Frankfort-on-the-Main, Venice and Tibet, suggesting a mixed set of geography and trivia clues.
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Kansas
Key West
Pia
Frankfort-on-the-Main
Germany
Venice
Spartan
Four
Tibet
Puzzles Weiner Roast Challenge and Word Chains
A quirky puzzle page lists roast themed clues and word chains. It features a campfire scene with many items starting with B and prompts changing sequences from SING to FOOD and ROMP to DINE.
Police recruit candidate faced with high speed crime test
A police recruit in a testing scenario was asked what he would do if alone in a police car with desperate criminals speeding fifty miles an hour on a road. He paused and answered with a terse sixty.
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