The Cruise of the Skiddoo Adventure on Lake Erie
Ted Frice and Harry Hanley take a vacation aboard the Skiddoo on Lake Erie when smugglers attack and steal boats. The boys locate the gang’s hideout, warn Lakeville police, and recover the dinghies while earning a reward. They chase the smugglers, report the find, and are hailed by Yacht Club members for their bravery and skill.
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Ted Frice
Harry Hanley
Lake Erie
Ted
Tatler
Lakeville
Tampetting
Aume
Harry
Skiddoo
Chisf
Police
St.Thomas
Thomas Harbor
Tiarry
Nolless
Edward H. Powell
Yacht! Club
Muskrats and Their Habits in Wildlife Lore
Muskrats live in swamps and along water edges with brown fur and tough skin useful for fur. They breed rapidly, producing yearly litters, and build mud and rush houses with underwater tunnels to escape predators. Humans trap them for meat and skins, while musk from scent glands is refined for perfumes. In summer they roam wide territories, not needing to migrate long distances.
Sidewalk Safety Advice on Kids’ Rolling Activities
An editorial urges respect for pedestrians as towns ban roller skating and bicycle riding on sidewalks. It cites incidents where scooters and bicycles collided with pedestrians, urging skating and cycling only where space is clear and alertness is high to avoid causing harm.
Muskrat Habits and Foraging Across Seasons in Waterways
The muskrat shelters in winter mud houses and dives in summer to escape danger. It feeds on freshwater clams and mussels, leaving shell heaps as it feeds. In fall it pulls bullrushes for food, often living on the edible parts during scarcity, while trappers target feeding sites to catch them.
William the Conqueror’s 1066 Norman invasion and census
Norman Duke William lands in England in 1066 and is crowned at Westminster on Christmas Day. He sends emissaries across the realm to census people, wealth, cattle, and farms to reform laws and institutions, a monumental early survey of the kingdom.
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Wiliam the Conqueror
Normandy
France
England
Harold
London
Westminster
William 1
Unusual Date Pulp Cake Recipe From Aunt Helen
A reader invites cooks to send recipes to Aunt Helen in Chicago. Faith Kelford offers a date pulp dessert using eggs sugar salt milk orange juice nutmeg. The method includes cooking dates, mixing with eggs milk and pulp, then baking until firm in the center.
Watch Boxes Turned Into Furniture By Hobby Club
Girls at the Hobby Club admire a miniature attic bureau crafted from kitchen match boxes and flowered cretonne. Miss Brown explains assembling tiny drawers from matched material, then glues six match box covers into a stacked unit for a small ornate bureau.
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Hobby Club
Miss Brown
Paste the mirror idea into a bureau display
Sheila Melvor describes a decorative bureau craft: join two drawers removed from a bureau, attach a triangular cardboard back, place a mirror in the triangle, cover the top and sides with material, sew curtain rings on each drawer cover, and slide them in for a pretty finished effect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sheila Melvor
Domesday Book described in medieval England census
The Domesday Book, compiled under William the Conqueror, was a vast two volume census of England with 760 and 900 pages respectively. It recorded a mail-free era with no roads or trains, later stored in a brass bound chest and now housed in the British Museum.
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William
England
William the Conqueror
Musem
London
Pairing Opposites Puzzle From a 19th Century Page
In this puzzle the left column words pair with right column terms of opposite meaning. Align each word with its correct antonym: Affirm with Deny, Noxious with Beneficial, Erudition with Ignorance, Generous with Niggardly, Affection with Aversion, Union with Separation, Mast with Occupied, Docile with Niggardly, Accelerate with Retard, Vacant with Occupied, Ignore with Deny, Niggardly with Generous, Remain with Remove, the middle letter fmm and Word for discharge with a clue about discharge.
Crossword Puzzle Answer Summary from Fuziles Page
Answers to Fuziles crossword show solutions for multiple clues including FARM related terms like farm warm worn worn corm coon coop crop dive live Uke LAKE and a diamond word set B bat bathe bathing third end. States listed include Arkansas Tennessee Colorado and a final clue on shoot shot.
Puzzle Column Hints and Word Square Teaser
A playful puzzle column describes a tough hide animal and a messy word square. It invites solvers to transform FARM to CROP and DIVE to LAKE, hints at a pet related word, and notes three states form this week’s picture puzzle.
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Punkinville
Henri Klaus
A I Sera
Eb Riley
Armand Roth
Ssonie
Averne Ee
Rik Legal
Audre Beauty
Berl
Bill Chamberlain
Bikockue Club Deluxe Dental - Parlor
Rookwa Lumber
Heeran dRue
Editorial
Martes
Adventures OF
Peter Pen
BY Nick Nichols
Old King
Mercy
Around the
THE
Helen
Faith Kelford
Posers
Arkansas
Colorado
Hera
MR. Rhing
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