Helen Winslow Triumphs in School Play Despite Rival Thyra
Helen Winslow, a high school senior, balances work at a drugstore with drama duties, losing the presidency to Thyra Franklin but earning praise for a leading emotional scene. William Hare Collins commends Helen’s artistry, praising her as a standout even with a minor role, as Thyra watches in mixed triumph and envy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Winslow
Thyra Franklin
Helen
Thyra
William Hare Collins
Mr. Collins
Cartain
Altho Helen
Miss Callender
Girls Workroom Plans for Handy Crafting at Home
A guide discusses girls pursuing hands on crafts with simple materials like glue tubes crepe paper and basic tools. It outlines setting up a home studio with a sturdy table drawers shelves and storage boxes for small parts and welding supplies using affordable second hand furniture and improvised shelving.
Make a Little Studio At Your Desk
The article advises night work lighting a lamp on the table with a tin can wall light and a hole to fit the base. It suggests a flexible desk lamp, a padded chair and optional back padding. A movable screen can isolate the corner for a personal studio space.
Forgetting as a memory discipline in everyday life
An editorial advocates guiding memory to page out hurts and misfortunes. It argues forgetting quickens happiness and helps others, noting a balanced memory aids well being. A light campus joke about Marblehead, Ohio caps the piece.
Wish to Study in New York Prompts Public Plea
In a dramatic moment after a show, an actor urges Miss Winslow to visit New York for professional training once her school duties end. Helen, seated nearby, wonders if her dream of studying abroad might finally come true as friends celebrate and Thyra watches with a twisted smile. THE END
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Tung
Thyra
Mr. Collins
Helen
Trace
Helen Winslow
Miss Winslow
New York
Savings Accounts Grow Wealth for Young minds
A father explains to Mildred Hoyne how 23 dollars saved annually starting now and kept untouched grows due to compound interest. He demonstrates six month interest at 3 percent and shows how deposits accumulate to a notable sum by age 41, encouraging sustained saving.
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Columbus
Mildred Hoyne
Mildred
America
Myx
Tas
The Fun Box and Vignette Jumble From a Page
A scattered collection of playful captions and lines. A roadside scene hints at a broken tail light and a red oil request. A boy with a tin can stirs curiosity while a police note and jokes about school spirit drift in and out.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Schram
Ima
Ruined Jamestown Brick Tower Tells Old Colonial Tale
A centuries old brick tower at Jamestown Virginia remains as a ruined remnant of an early church built by English settlers in 1635 on the site of Captain John Smith’s earlier construction. Pocahontas wed John Rolfe’s lawfully? era. Thousands visit the ruin each year.
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Jamestown
Virginia
America
New World
John Smith
Pocahontas
Powhatan
John Ross
Nathaniel Bacon
Ruimed
The Kitchenette Ice Box Pudding Recipe
Aunt Helen invites readers to send more recipes for The Kitchenette column. An ice box pudding recipe is printed with graham crackers dates nuts and marshmallows, formed into a loaf rolled in crumbs and chilled before serving.
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S. Dearborn St
Chicago
Trick to Balance a Coin on a Knife Edge
A magician explains a juggling trick using a table knife and a concealed quarter. By attaching gum to the quarter, the performer balances the quarter on the knife edge and the half dollar on the quarter, fooling spectators who see the coin appear to rest on the knife. The quarter is removed before returning the coin to the spectator.
Riddles and Quips From Schoolyard Fans
A fragment collection shows children cutting riddles from papers for a “riddle perty.” Questions cover marriage rites left and right hand, watermelon weight, heart in the head, and beauty for all. Lighter asides include a druggist scale pun and classroom jokes about kings of France during the revolution.
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Jil
Answers to riddles and a garden pun list
Riddles and answers presented as numbered items. The sequence includes solutions such as sixteen four better four worse four richer four poorer, a riddle about the left elbow, a spring planting pun, cabbage, and a final cryptic line mm the dark.
Puzzle Column Clues and a City Series Challenge
The page presents a puzzle column with horizontal clues including Marry Unitrue Snare and other wordplay prompts. It asks to align two European city fragments into a sequence, solve a letter-shift chain, and form a linked word series where each word’s last letter starts the next.
Three-letter word that forms chair lynx and sewn items
A riddle asks for a three letter base word that with three different endings yields a chair a lynx and something sewn. It notes a hidden European country in the sentence and lists a set of puzzled items referencing Budapest Brussels Glasgow Berlin and Italy. The animal described is a lynx in the cat family.
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Budapest
Brussels
Glasgow
Berlin
Italy
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Elsbeth
Arnold
Dramatic Club
Wiliam Hara Collins
Thyra -Franklin
Him
Steray
Dale
van Horn
Editorial
Slamt Freshie
Ohio
Proud Senior
Freshie
Marblehead
John ¥. Beaty
The
Bankers Monthly
Bobby
Adventures OF
Peter Pen
BY Nick Nichols
Smile Factory
Hans
Soccko
Bifo
Around the
Historic Old Church
Graham
Hes
Gassy
Driver
France
Louis the Thirteenth
Europe
Patsueed
Lessures
Salwoog
Libner
ATC
Alc
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