Gentle outdoor scenes prompt school kids to enter contests
Aunt Judith invites children to recall sunny riverside views with frogs and wattle trees while promoting a Word Competition due Oct 14 at The Advocate Office Sunshine. Darwin paragraph punctuation contest prizes announced with Heather Hyett winning Sunshine Bird Contest. list of finalists provided.
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Evergre
Nesta
Aunt Judith
Advocate Office
Sunshine
Darwin
Heather Hyett
Heather
Beryl Clifton
Morris Street
Olwen Easton
Hampshire Road
Jack Hook
Percy Street
St. Albans
Jean Mounsey
Anderso
Olwen Easton Wins Show Letter Prize
A reader entry by Olwen Easton wins the Show Letter prize after a day at the Show. She recalls enjoying sample bags and the sideshows, including a merry-go-round and Chinese Wonders, plus a dog pavilion with many breeds and friendly dogs.
Word Puzzle From Aunt Judith
Reader offers a new challenge to form words using each letter from Aunt Judith only once per word. Example Thin. Determine how many distinct words can be created under the single-use rule.
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Aunt Judith
Old Woman of the Woods Continues Tale of River Table
The old woman relays how she gathered quartz to craft a river table and, after a storm shattered a pine, used its limbs as legs. She guides Minna and the children into a cave where a radiant hall glows with carved pillars, colored stalactites, waxy flowers, and magical light. The children exclaim it surpasses fairy tales.
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Minna
What I Saw at the Show
Olwen Easton describes a day at the show week noting cattle breeds Friesians Jerseys Ayrshires and a Clydesdale with five championship ribbons. She observes horses sheep pigs and arena events including a police display and woodchopping while seeking samples and exhibits.
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Olwen Easton
Our Gardens and a Fernery Project for Children
The piece suggests children grow a fernery or begonia cutting as a small secret window plant for their mother. It invites care with light soil and potting, noting Maidenhair ferns and begonias changing as they grow. A reader wonders about a three-petaled poppy and oddities seen.
Fujiyama Mount of Immortality Sacred Peak of Japan
This piece describes Fujiyama, one of the world’s most famous and shapely mountains in Japan. It explains the name meaning the mount of immortality and notes its sacred status with thousands making pilgrimages yearly. The peak rises solitary from a plain about 60 miles west of Tokyo.
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Japan
Tokio
Legends and the birth of Mount Fuji
The article recounts several legends about Fuji, including a tale of it rising from the sea and another of a sky descent. A more plausible version says in 246 B C the plain awoke to roars as all peaks vanished and a single peak, Fujiyama, appeared, spitting fire and stones, a phenomenon repeated at intervals.
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Fujiyama
Riddles and Jokes in Our Big Smile Section
Betty Hale of Percy Street St Albans sends puzzles for the Big Smile prize in November. The page features a series of light quiz lines and jokes, including wordplay on letters for a deaf woman, a pun about a pig and a house fire, and a London spelling riddle.
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Betty Hale
Percy Street
St. Albans
Betty
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Maisie Thompson
Sydney St
Betty Halliday
Morris St
Olwen
Fujiyyama
John
Peter
London
Bill
Bob
Piccadilly
Australia
the Colonial Gas Association Limited
Bogram i
Paisley Street
Footscray
Featesray
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