Mystery Player Bob Leonard Emerges On Rushton Grid
Dot learns the neighborhood new boy Bob Leonard is a gifted football talent. She orchestrates a ploy with cousin Jacky to have him coach local youths, watching him demonstrate blocking tackling and passing on a Jefferson street sandlot, fueling the town’s football hopes.
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Rushton High
Dot
Bob Leonard
Bob
Philadel
Jude
Rushton
Ed Parthmore
Jefferson
Jacky Parthmore
Jefferson Street
Jacky
Cellophane Art Turns Glassware Into Colorful Vases
A guide for decorating tumblers bottles and jars with wet cellophane. Apply colored strips around glass surfaces overlapping edges for tone effects, designs, and durable finishes. Shellac or varnish protects against soap and heat, creating long lasting decorative pieces.
Jack o Lantern Halloween Salad Contest Recipe
Myra Taylor of Troy Tennessee won a dollar for submitting a Halloween salad recipe titled Jack o Lantern. The dish uses pears cheese nuts lettuce mayonnaise ginger cookies licorice candy and marshmallows to form a jack o lantern centerpiece with carved candy features.
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Myra Taylor
Troy
Tennessee
Ghost Night Party Games Promoting Bad Manners Aboard
A Halloween party guide outlines a series of playful rude etiquette themed games. Instructions cover outfits, props, and activities including Guessing identities, Me First, Sipping Soup, Gentlemen First, bobbing for apples with forks, and a table manners prize.
Bats In Winter Lesson Ends In Oil Joke
A teacher asks Jimmy what bats do in winter and he quips that they split if you don t oil them. The line lands as a light classroom pun about maintenance and mammals.
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Jimmy
Special Award for Philadelphia Scholastic Player 1938
Dot reads an engraved inscription on a tiny gold football. The Philadelphia Times awarded Bob Leonard as the most valuable scholastic player in Philadelphia in 1938. To be continued next week.
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Dot
Philadelphia Times
Bob Leonard
Philadelphia
Football Dangers Urge Care On Season
The editor warns players to take injuries seriously and seek treatment to prevent deaths from football wounds. Citing over twenty deaths last year, the piece stresses cleansing and treating wounds and interrupting play when needed to stay safe.
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United States
Clever Trick of Card Magic From Memphis
A reader from Memphis Tennessee submits a clever card trick described as the Trick of the Week. The explanation notes the card rises with the magician's little finger, aided by a drawn illustration.
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Memphis
Tennessee
Jack Dean
Overton Park Avenue
Jack
These Predictions For Hallowe'en Fortune Slips
Fortunes for a witch at a Halloween party printed to fit slips for the cauldron. The verses tease guests with playful jests about marriages, fame, wealth, aging, and theatrical misdirections, offering a ghoulishly humorous set to copy and customize for each attendee.
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Hallowe’en Witch
Money Making Movie Show Helps 11 Year Old Buy Radio
Columbus boy Joseph Menduni aged 11 turned a six film projector into a nickel admission show. He charged two cents per ticket, drew 41 children, earned $2.05 to buy a midget radio, and had a nickel to spare. He credits his idea to a movie project.
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Columbus
Halloween Puzzle Challenge and Word Changes
A puzzle page explores Halloween themed clues with sections on faces and ghosts. It guides players through single letter word changes from FACE to MASK in four moves and DARK to FEAR in five while noting dangerous word shifts and a diamond of word clues including gear wheel and poisonous snake.
Hallowe'en Witch's Cat Used in Word Square
A playful item notes a Halloween theme with a witch's cat featured at the start of a picture word square, highlighting the seasonal novelty.
How I Made Money A Boy’s Page Letter
I tell editor of the Boys and Girls Page my own method of earning, from chores to small jobs and clever savings. I share my eye on opportunities, effort, and honesty as the core to growing a little by little income for a curious young reader audience.
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Boys and Girls
Tenderfoot Boy Scouts define vessel as lifeboat joke
A humorous exchange shows a Tenderfoot confusing vessel terms with a lifeboat. A First Class Scout confirms a blood vessel analogy by calling it a lifeboat, then sends the pair away.
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Tenderfoot
Silent Goose Sermon Echoes in Church Banter
A colored minister praises Elder Johnson's goose at dinner and asks what he got from the meal. Elder Johnson retorts that a preacher never asks what reward a sermon yields, framing the exchange as a response on merit and dignity rather than indulgence.
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Elder Johnson
Brother Johnson
Pahson
Riddles About a Thousand Stories On Halloween
A haunted house riddle prompts a question about a building with more than a thousand stories. Participants Carnelia Hancox Alice Bast Nelda How ard Even Evans Annie Mac Fayne offer playful solutions to questions about waffles debt and a sea on a rainy day.
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Carnelia Hancox
Alice Bast
Nelda Howard
Evans
Annie Mac Fayne
Answers to Last Week's Puzzles Highlights
Puzzle recap lists solutions from last week including a crossword answer key and word sequences. It presents fragmented letter groupings and item lists, referencing terms like B has hello ballads slate ode S and assorted word fragments.
It’s Done Every Day Big Boy
A humorous exchange features a strongman boasting he can stop a train with one arm and claiming to be an engineer, prompting a playful nod from the onlooker about his athleticism.
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Big Boy
Riddle submission request to newspaper print column
A reader asks for new riddles to be sent to the Riddle Man for possible print. They invite readers to submit original riddles with their names for potential publication.
Answers to Riddles and Wordplay Pointers
Riddles presented include clues about a public library a non skid pancake and a math style puzzle split into four parts. The answers imply wordplay such as assault with intent to kill versus kill with intent and a pun on Adriatic sounding like a dry attic.
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Adriatic
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