Great Hydroplane Race At Oakdale Captures Public Imagination
Oakdale Grammar School pupils read a challenge by Pliny Quick to a hydroplane race against Walter Armstrong next Saturday at three. The Pancake, a bicycle boat, trails the Flash as both teams race from Smith's Wharf on Duck Creek toward Mill Pond. The start shows Walter in the lead, with Pliny's team swept toward a dangerous dam plunge as spectators urge caution.
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Pliny Quick
Walter Armstrong
Walter
Waller
Flash
Exploitstion
Exploitstion Company
Pliny
Quick
Austen
Smith's Wharf
Duck Creek
Mill Pond
Oakdale
Soth
Pancake Ag
Positon
Quick Brothers
Lyatt
Torwithin
Walter Johnson
Quick 4
Pinhole camera from cigar box and hydroplane race clash
A detailed DIY pinhole camera built from a cigar box is described with instructions for cutting parts, painting seams, and aligning a simple shutter. The text also recounts a hydroplane race at a pond where the Quick brothers on the Pancake and the Flash, driven by Austen, collide with a dam and finish a photo finish amid crowd cheers and postrace antics.
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Paris
Abelish
Sen
The Truant Poem of a Runaway Student
In June a pupil runs from school as sunshine and trees tempt him. Fishes swim, squirrels leap, and birches sing as the narrator wonders if running away is wrong. He imagines pleasant days outside while confessing he would not run away if schools closed.
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Afis
How to Construct a Sand Bag Dam for a Pond
A seventeen year old describes building a durable sand bag dam to create a pond for aquatic sports. Use burlap bags filled with sand or gravel, sewn shut, laid from a bank across a stream where a ledge offers a foundation. Load bags with a wheelbarrow, place end to end, allow two to three months for settling and rot.
Collecting Postmarks Weathers Into a Personal Stamp Hobby
A brief guide encourages children to start a postmark collection using a five cent blank book and paste or mucilage. It outlines arranging states alphabetically with capitals and postmarks, city populations, and notes on each entry. Emphasizes personal judgment in building an engaging, varied collection.
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Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Massachusetts
Puzzle answer clue points to a bird in Ine’s picture
The reader puzzle answer identifies a bird, inferred from Ine’s illustration. The line suggests the wild creature depicted is a bird, referenced as the solution to the picture puzzle.
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Ine
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Oakdale Grammar School
Arthur Morgan Langworthy
BY F. R. Hader
Pinhole
Arthur R. Knott
Irene Elliott Benson
Africa
Savel
Eugene M. Graves
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