Behind the Norstrum House A Bob Sled Tale
In Shardon High School's spring baseball opener, captain Bill Perkins, now crippled from a sled accident, watches as Don Radde leads a comeback against Drake. Bill recalls the crash, struggles with memory, and faces an uncertain future while Pete, Johnny Peters, and coach Evers cope with a crippled lineup. Mrs Norstrum warns of a dangerous dog as the crowd awaits the next game.
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Norstrum House
Bill Perkins
Shardon
Bob
Norstrum
Bill
Uries
Pete
Shartion
Shardon High
Drake
Higgins Hill
The
Norstrums
Shortland
Johnny Peters
Johnny
Mr. Evers
Don Radde
Don
Peters
Easter Cookies Shaped as Bunnies and Chickens
A vintage recipe for Easter cookies using bunny and chick cutters from a nickel store. Mix shortening and sugar, add milk, eggs, vanilla, and flour with baking powder and salt. Roll, cut, bake ten minutes. decorate with sugar and bits for eyes. wrap in waxed paper with ribbon for gifts.
Answers to posers from historical prompts
A compact list shows figures tied to historical intrigue and literature. Archduke of Austria named Emperor of Mexico by the French, later overthrown and executed. references touch North Africa, William Shakespeare, Edward Everett Hale, Gertrude Ederle, Suzanne Lenglen, Nero, and a leader in Italy’s independence struggle.
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Archduke of Austria
Mexico
North Africa
Wiliam Shakespeare
Edward Everett Hale
Gertrude Ederle
Suzanne Lenglen
Nero
Rome
Young Film Fan Finds Love Letter Opened by Radio Voice
Sgarbona Zeps, daughter of a wealthy Woodchluck magnate, fell for a radio singer known as Andy Ampere. She wrote the station to learn the announcer Oley Ohm’s name, and the letter was opened, promising a tale of romance and youth culture on air.
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Sgarbona’ Zebs
Woodchluck
Voice OF 4
Oley Ohm
The Walking Stick That Beat the Zulu Menace
A British colonel, lost in the South African veldt amid a Zulu uprising, faced a mob armed with spears and knives. He brandished a walking stick, advancing with it like a gun. The Zulus backed away, then fled when he fashioned the stick into worse. The tale ends with a grim moral about fear.
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South Africa
Moon Eclipse Sparks Local Chat at Small Town Bank
An elderly visitor asks a boy for directions to the People's Saving Bank and learns a bank director earns modest pay. A bystander remarks on the town's liveliness, noting an eclipse of the moon occurred not long ago, prompting amused exchange.
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People’s Saving Bank
Yessum
Posers eight questions on history and literature
A list of eight questions tests knowledge: Maximilian, Timbuctoo location, authors of A Midsummer Night's Dream and A Man Without a Country, first woman to swim the English Channel, the woman tennis champion, the fiddle while Rome burned line, and Giuseppe Garibaldi.
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Maximilian
Rome
Guiseppe Garibaldi
Riddle Editor Seeks Unused Puzzles for Series
The paper invites readers to submit original riddles not previously published. Send concise clues and answers to the newspaper office for consideration in a forthcoming series. Include your name and contact details.
Missing Word Limericks About Baseball Fun
A playful verse section invites readers to try creating limericks and sewing them into the paper. It teases a baseball poem where a batter vows fan cheers but the ball lands in a fielder’s mitt, ending with a subdued response.
The Chrysanthemum Lady in a Snowy Football Season
Short Story Jr recounts three chrysanthemum ladies in a shop window who are soon sent to a home, a show, and a game day. One is carried by a bride, another earns a blue ribbon at a show, and a Golden Lady attends a family gathering before being worn on a coat during a football game, ending with her head detaching and falling into the field.
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Golden Lady
Hiking Suggestions For Outdoor Girls From R Van Horn
The article offers practical gear for an overnight hike including a match safe, knife, rope, compass, and field glasses. It advises pacing to two steps per second, training posture, even step length, and keeping head up with a straight back. It emphasizes training on flat ground and dust to ensure feet track parallel, preventing inefficient foot turnout.
Geometry teachers are angle worms of a different kind
A playful quip notes that while all teachers are book worms, geometry teachers stand apart as angle worms, a pun on angles and worm imagery.
Month Spelling From Behead Word Puzzle Clues
A long OCR fragment presents behead riddles and a cross word puzzle. It lists definitions for various words including beheaded forms yielding a month, boy’s name, and items like a vegetable and a file, with scattered phrases about trials and clues.
Mystery Coins Drive Mother's Grocery Trip Puzzle
Cecille Lyon reports a mother asking Myrtle to buy groceries with two coins of unequal value. The note invites readers to deduce the coin types and values based on the embedded clues, presenting a compact brain teaser rooted in everyday shopping.
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Myrtle
Answers to Puzzles Revealed In Mixed Word Clues
Puzzle page shows coin names misreadings and word fragments. Horizontal clues include silvery seven and other numbered slots with terms like tar, ics, bos, eats, nod, and paper. Vertical clues list items such as in, lot, ears, apple, urn, and or with several overlapping fragments.
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Read
Rode
Eli
Lot
Tableat
Spender
Nor
Apt
The Real Teat Tt Reflects on a Toothless Smile
A light verse noting that beauty and youth please, but a girl who can smile after losing a front tooth shows true worth. The poem wittily contrasts surface charm with resilience, celebrating cheerful poise amid loss.
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W. Boyce Morgan
Mrs. Norstrum
Dorothy
Mra Norstrum
Goofey Movies
Fred Neher
Andy Ampere
Oley
Fledged Shiek
Scar Bona
Ouf
Zeb8
Mox
Zebb
Ramo
TLL
Olm
Carbonma
Posers
Chrysanthemum
Dale R. van Horn
Lake
Fudsonia
Tr P Sr
John Ay
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