Autogyro sabotage threatens contract bid
Lynn Harker and his brother George race to repair an autogyro after a sabotage attempt on its engine gasket. George uncovers a tampered gasket and a missing lock, while Lynn scrambles for a substitute pilot to meet a crucial Brentley demonstration. Brentley offers a single chance: perform tomorrow or lose the contract as Hooks schemes loom.
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Lynn Tarper
George Nast
Brentley
Titflooks
Cyclone
Orivib Werlab Dusdige
Bsro
George
Lynn
Lynn F
Bromney
Tul Story
Air Line
Lyan
Tree
Harry Engle
Josiah Brentley
Harker
Mr. Brentley
Hooks
Wings for Youth First American solo flyer was a woman
In a historical note, Aida de Acosta, an American debutante, piloted Alberto Santos-Dumont's dirigible solo on June 29, 1903, seven months before the Wright brothers. The piece cites a new book Women with Wings by Charles Planck and invites readers to learn more, asking about Civil Air Patrol enrollment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth Law
Harriet Quimby
Katherine Stinson
Aida de Acosta
Alberto Santos-Dumont
Wright Brothers
Charles Planck
Mr. Planck
Paris
Santos-Dumont
Miss de Acosta
Bagatelle
Civil Air Patrol
I. R. Hegel
Pigeon Race Timed by Bird Band Clocks Reveals Speed
A feature explains racing homing pigeons where the starter releases birds from crates fitted with timing bands. Birds fly home to their lofts as distance measures and clocks determine time, yielding speeds up to a mile per minute and about 1200 to 1500 yards per minute on common races. It notes peacetime hobby value and wartime use as carrier pigeons, plus falcon interference in WWI.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James E. Ficken
Quick dash for round trip ticket at station
A man rushed into the station with seconds to spare and asked for a round trip ticket. He demanded, Where to? Back here, you fool, in a tense exchange captured in a brief, humorous moment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ony
The Wisest Course for School Year Begins
Thousands of boys and girls across the country return to school and face new classes and instructors. Many resolve to do better, but human nature often delays real effort. The wiser path is to start strong at the year’s outset and work hard now to ease later months.
Money Makers Of Our Readers Celebrate Joyce Ann Show
Joyce Ann Show of 2521 South A street Elwood Indiana runs a costume business and wins $1.00 in War Stamps as the best Money Maker of the week. She began with a box of old clothes from a friend and added crepe paper hats tinsel bunting and improvised props to create outfits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joyce Ann
South A. Street
Elwood
Indiana
Bottle-Cap Basket From Caps Makes Handy Project
Ordinary metal bottle caps form a useful basket that can serve as a door-stop or hanging plant holder. The design uses 200 to 235 caps, wire, and shellac sealed for rust resistance, assembled in about an hour and a half with caps strung and bent into semicircles to create base and rim, finished with a 13 inch cap handle.
Costumes for Rent Boost Local Amateur Theatrics
A resident has amassed about twenty costumes of famous characters and rents them to friends for holidays and plays. Costs 25 cents to rent, with crepe paper outfits sold outright. The article notes strong business as clubs and groups enjoy dressing up for events and amateur performances. Readers urged to write to the editor of the Boys and Girls Page with money-saving ideas. $1.09 in War Stamps awarded for each published letter.
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George Washington
Soc
Frosh and Soph swap quips in playful schoolyard tale
In a light exchange the Soph jokes about a Sleeping Beauty memory, the Frosh quips Sleeping Beauty is not the tale, then a ballplayer riffs about returning home, weaving a playful campus banter about baseball and rest.
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Soph
Frosh
Sleeping Beauty
Sleepy Hollow
War Work Benny Lemanski Wins Weekly War Stamp Prize
Benny Lemanski of 40 Gaston Street Easthampton Mass has two brothers in the armed forces. He knits Red Cross sweaters, sells War Stamps on his paper route, collects old newspapers and scrapped metal, and uses route profits to buy stamps. He also owns a $25 bond and writes to his brothers. He urges others to support the war effort.
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Benny Lemanski
Gaston Street
Easthampton
Mass
Air Corps
Pacific
Coast Guardsman
New York
Benny
Red Cross
Absent-Minded Professor's Wife Dellar Incident
Absurd dialogue fragment shows a bemused professor and wife amid a comical miscommunication. A truck incident is hinted with a humorous exchange about a missing item. The snippet includes flippant lines from a chair of gossip with character names and casual street banter.
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Dellar
Joe Mandett
Currant Jelly Icing Prize Recipe Contest
A reader recipe contest from a newspaper features currant jelly icing by Alice Elaine Prindle. Contestants sending recipes could win a dollar. details urge readers to mail their best icing ideas to Aunt Peggy care of the paper. The entry requires being at least 18, with a dollar reward offered for printed submissions.
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Alice Elaine Prindle
Alice Elaine
Bainbridge
N. Vu
Peggy
Kitchenettc
Crossword Puzzle Clues and Hidden Country Riddle
The page presents a DU Editor crossword with clues across for builds beverages a circular roof and more plus a theme about a mother working in the kitchen. A scrambled four item set SELL KIT BITE CAN LION MULE TIRES RAN hints at hidden phrases. A sentence hides a European country name. the musician calls the lyre a harp.
Four Articles Found in the Kitchen
A set of four readable kitchen items appears, with clues guiding toward cooking terms and vessel names. The puzzle hints at word play to derive halt from a word for bend and cooking vessels from aches.
Advice to the lean and fat about not eating fast
A brief editorial phrase contrasts advice to the lean and to the fat urging abstention from rapid eating. The lines emphasize restraint and caution around meals.
Answers to Last Week's Puzzles
Puzzle recap lists four items with mock answers and a final line noting a crossword puzzle solution. Multiple fragments mention Suntan snapshots autograms Pickerel Victuresque picker and terms like CAME come HOME REST pest pert perk and Ta WORW, concluding with Crossword Puzzle Solution.
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Suntan
Pickerel
Menic, Victuresque
Picker
Pest
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Annlonaire
Playboy
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Triggerkarks
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Associated Editors
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