Three Horns The watchful waiter of 4 000 000 years ago
Ramon Coffman introduces Three Horns or Triceratops, a horned dinosaur from Wyoming and Colorado fossils. The article describes its bone heavy skull, small brain, dual eye horns and nose horn, thick shield, grinding teeth, limited speed, and five front toes with three hind toes. A Washington skull shows a horn healed after a battle. Next week covers the Tyrant Lizard from the same era.
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Ramon Coffman
Wyoming
Colorado
Washington, D. C
Indians import Their Tomahawk.
The piece explains the origin of the tomahawk among American Indians as a simple club or horn and hide thong weapon, later transformed by Europeans into a combined pipe and tomahawk with a hollow stem and pipe bowl in the knob opposite the blade.
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America
Rug Ships by Beatrice Washburn
A light verse collection features playful lines about rugs, domestic items, and curious exchanges. Characters include a Lady seeking lard and a grocer, Oswald praising generosity, and humorous exchanges about cats, coal, and speed.
Make five less by adding to it puzzle
Riddles on wordplay and logic ask how to reduce or alter numbers and situations. The items include questions about adding to a number, topical humor about coffee and earth, swallowing a door, taking a back seat, church demoralization, and various comparisons and paradoxes.
Riddle Editor invites readers to submit lines for print
A reader exchange features a contest with The Riddle Editor handling submissions. a Service Doctor joke about burying a husband appears alongside playful banter and a list of riddle answers. The passage ends with a note urging young people to ensure elders’ comfort before their own.
Skelma’s Loss Sparks Talk on Hair Makeover Styles
A local figure named Skelma lost in an unspecified event and muses that she would look better with cobbed hair. The remark signals a light fashion note amid unclear context.
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Skelma
Tomale
Posers and Answers to Classic Riddles Trivia
This reader set lists common trivia with short answers. It covers hen laying frequency Robert Fulton inventor of steamboat Henry Ford fortune leader in Harper's Ferry abolitionist John Brown Lewis Carroll author of Alice in Wonderland reference to God in heaven greeting dog turning before lying down for comfort Krohn Browning's Pippa Passes.
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United States
John Brown
Robert Fulton
Henry Foard
Harper's Ferry
Lewis Carroll
Browning
Pippa
The Jelly Bean Racket at Turner School
A freshman class meeting at Turner School erupts into a jelly bean volley as beanblowers fly. Captain Rod Armstrong is struck and chokes on a red bean, prompting a tense demand to identify the shooter and a mass exit as Bill Saunders observes with a wary satisfaction.
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Bill Saunders
Bill
George
Jennie Carroll
Sara Anderson
Rod” Armstrong
Fresh
Bazaar Hope Sets In As Fund Drive Continues
In a Sunday morning message, the vicar admitted donations were slow but urged optimism. He stated they had tried the usual war and were now turning to a bazaar to raise the remaining funds.
Two men discuss a diamond tie pin in street talk
In a street conversation two men discuss a large diamond tie pin. Isaac explains that his brother died leaving him 450 dollars for a stone, and this is the stone.
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Isaac
Can You Rhyme Try This Game
A playful activity where players take turns writing lines in a shared rhyme. The first writer hides their line, passes the page with a cue word and meter, and others continue rhyming and matching the beat. The result is a humorous, collaborative poem.
My Pet Muggins the Shetland Pony Impresses Texas Boy
William Jarrett of Texas praises his Shetland pony Muggins as the best horse. He reports riding freely, the pony taking off windily, and invites readers to submit details and photos of their own pets for possible print on this page.
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Muggins
William Jarrett
Texas
The Runaway by Dorginy Dunsing
Rusty runs away with ten dollars to seek work in the city but faces hurdles. He searches ads in the station, tries to prove he is sixteen, but is unable to secure a job and ends up returning home with four dollars left for a ticket to Maryville.
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Rusty
Jimmy
Lane Street
Maryville
Umbrella Sign Across Ancient Courts and Empires
An essay traces the umbrella as a symbol of rank in ancient Nineveh Egypt and Indian realms, noting its lavish use by rulers and officials. It contrasts sun shading with rain protection and recalls early English umbrellas made of cane and silk, evolving to modern ribbed designs.
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Nineveh
Egypt
India
Burmah
England
Behead Puzzle Shifts Letters To Spell This Month
By Cecille Lyon a New Year puzzle column asks readers to behead words to form a hidden month. Clues include removing first letters from race course writing fluid living length of time organ of hearing and more to yield new words and reveal the target month.
Puzzle note hid two homographs in rhyme
A historic puzzle note invites solvers to spot two words that sound identical and share the same letters in different orders. The passage hints at a hidden answer by referencing hands and a track and asks for a word meaning diamonds and a name of eight letters.
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Hhe
From STEM to LEAF Puzzle Path of Letter Changes
A word ladder style puzzle guides readers from STEM to LEAF with smooth steps and no thorns. Each move changes one letter to form a new word linked to a number that defines the clue, including terms like tread soak through spy top and escaping liquid.
Puzzles Answers and Word Diamonds From a Tearful Page
Answers to puzzles include A Hye year neat a sing fam a rid January. A diagram shows turning OQ and D to form a center diamond with a downwards match, linking to C and DB. It lists words such as Ein ieory art Eva tvory art y and a sequence of step words like stem step peeD peer peek peak bork leak Iesf.
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Ein
Ieory
Art
Eva
Tvory
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RUG Ships
Beatrice Washburn
Oswald
Rivvie Sox
Gogfey Movies
Thelma Kitty
Yuck Ghhon
Fred Neher
Wierma
Reome
HELMA
Coles Steceatheq
Stor
Spagnes
Edward the Confessor
Bayeux
SMT
Charves-I
Tanmuary
Posers
S the
Jelly Bean
Dorothy Dansing
Red
Dorginy Dunsing
By Cecille Lyon
Diamons
Ver
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