Missing from Troop Seventeen Encamp Adventure
Two Eagle Scouts Ton and Chuck recount a dramatic summer encampment near Mississinewa, a bear encounter, a haunted house, and a river rapids escape. Fellow Troop Seventeen members tease their tale with practical jokes, goats in a haunted house, and a long frightening night in the woods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Gihon
Synovius
Ton
Glick
Tom Chuck
Errein
Troop Seventeen
Tom
Chuck
Galva
Ancient Chinese game praised for clever play
A historical note extols a second ancient game, attributed to a Chinaman named Tan four thousand years ago, paralleling chess. It mentions Napoleon at St Helena spending hours with the small black geometric figures, highlighting enduring appeal and beauty of the game.
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Tan
Napoleon
St. Helena
Pet Pony and Kitten Sketched in Letter Warmth
A Coronado California girl describes her pony Beauty a black Welsh Shetland cross that bows to mounting behavior by turning to its right shoulder. A Coulerville Illinois resident writes of a yellow haired kitten Snookums that winks and wiggles ears in playful detail.
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Jane Chase
Coronado
Calif
Beauty
Jane
Jane’s
Josie Adking
Coulterville
Ilinois
Josie
Snookums
Tangrams you can make at home from a card board square
Tangrams, named after the inventor, can be made at home using a six inch stiff cardboard square. Ensure precise edges and angles and mark off the geometric figures as shown, then use the numbered pieces to assemble various shapes.
Practical perfection for imperfect circles in geometry
The text argues that perfect circles cannot be constructed but practical circles look perfect and function well. It compares everyday imperfect items like rusted skates and patched trousers to circles, noting that for practical purposes they are effectively perfect and usable despite ideal perfection being unattainable.
Josie’s Banjo Cat Jerry Delights Coulterville
Alice Butler of San Diego California describes her pet cat Jerry. A black cat with a dress suit like marking on the stomach and neck sits up stands on hind feet and playfully slaps or bites gently then kisses. Jerry is funny and well loved in Coulterville.
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Josie
Coulterville
Alice Butler
San Diego
Calif
Jerry
Alice
Card Craft Game For Party Fun And Figures To Cut
Wren explains a kit for making cut out figures with a sharp knife then blackening pieces with ink or crayon. It promises endless enjoyment and can be a party activity with prizes for best figure of a cat animal or man. Avoid showing to adults in the family so kids can keep playing.
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Chuck
Nell
Mr. Bruin
Fen
Mec
Wren
There Are No Fools in Our Family Comic Quip
A terse exchange between a student and professor reveals a sharp mentorship moment. The student asserts intelligence in the family while the professor offers calm correction about self restraint. The dialogue highlights ego, respect, and guidance in scholarly life.
Can You Guess These Tricky Wit Testers
A reader collection presents ten riddles from youths nationwide. Entries include Willie Reavis of Winston Salem asking about bald heads and other contestants from Missouri Illinois Iowa and North Carolina propose playful questions and answers.
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Willie Reavis
Winston Salem
N.C
Constance James
Chesterfield
Elizabeth Hughey
Alton
Ill
Verneita -Anvidson
Elizabeth Mae Rowley
Nashville
Tenn
Mildred Shipley
Warren
Ind
Dorothy Louise Smith
Youngstown
Ohio
Marie I. Smith
Waterloo
Iowa
Athagene Reavis
Yadkinville
N. C
Minnie A. Henley
St. Louis
Riddle submission call to readers for page printing
A reader is invited to send an original riddle to the paper’s Riddle Editor for possible publication, with the note that the editor will print games sent with the author’s name. The prompt encourages participation and visibility for clever puzzles.
Egyptian and Roman burial customs traced through time
The article surveys ancient beliefs about tombs housing a double or soul and how possessions were buried with the dead. It notes rock hewn Jewish tombs, Roman niches, and medieval church burials. It mentions General Grant's grave marker on Riverside Drive as a notable U.S. example.
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Egypt
Rome
United States
General Grant
Riverside Drive
New York City
Test of general information challenge
A nostalgic quiz paragraph asks about famous phrases and facts. It lists questions on Patrick Henry, Babe Ruth, bifocal glasses, Stephen King? Main Street author, Crete location, evolution, Everyman, and Li Po, aiming to gauge knowledge and intuition.
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Babe Ruth
Crete
Li Po
The Twig Already Bent
A train scene shows a mother with a pink baby and a curious elderly man offering child-raising aphorisms. The adviser asserts the proverb the twig is bent. The mother replies the twig may become a girl, and they will let it be.
Answers to Posers Takeaways Quiz Set
Patrick Henry is named. The answer highlights his record as a home run hitter. The riddle mentions glass ground in two forms for close reading and general wear. Sinclair Lewis is referenced. Crete is described as an island between Greece and Africa. The inference about common ancestry is debated. An English fifteenth century play is cited. The most famous Chinese poet is noted.
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Posers
Patrick Henry
Sinclair Lewis
Crete
Greece
Africa
What’s the Matter With Nail Biting Habits
A cryptic Q and A style excerpt notes biting nails damages fingers and nails, mentions riddles numbers, a kitten, a wife, a husband, and burdensome lawyers amid noisy complaints about people and papers. includes garbled phrases and scattered clues.
Word Squarettes At Dick's Lounge
Cecilia Lyon reports a casual gathering at Dick's where friends played with his little brother, swapping blocks and creating this week's Word Squarettes, amid lighthearted fun and shared laughs.
Word Squarettes Puzzle From Word Roots Clues
A four word square puzzle yields five letter bases and four word squares. Clues include large body of water snake like fish painter holes excuses us belonging to us foot coverings heavenly body termination greasy liquid a fairy and more. The final curtailments form an eradicator.
Foreign Complications Guess These Two Cities
A compact word puzzle from a newspaper page challenges readers to identify two foreign cities. The clueing hints at an extra wordplay layer involving a term meaning debt or owing, inviting readers to deduce the hidden phrase and its paired city names.
Puzzling Answers From A Fragmented Newspaper Clue
A scrambled OCR puzzle item lists scattered words and city names Bombay and Skockholm with references to diamonds and erasers. The readable parts hint at a mixed word grid with horizontal and vertical clues and imperfect phrases. The fragment preserves puzzle tone and era without clear solution.
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Bombay
Skockholm
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