The Lucky Dog A Tale of Want Ads and Rewards
Four boys form the Conquerors Club plan to earn money for a hike by copying lost dog ads from the paper and buying or returning dogs that resemble lost pets. They divide the town into districts, collect several dogs, and gather at their shack now a large kennel with mixed results from their efforts.
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Conquerors Club
Bob Miller
The
Conquerors
Bill
Porky Jones
Porky
Bob
Red
Conquerors Shack
Conquerors form dog-hunting club in search for lost pets
A group led by Bob, Red, and Porky enlists to track four missing dogs, Jerry the collie Trixie the fox terrier and an Airedale named Prince, hoping for rewards while debating diamond thefts. One large dog shows loyalty to Porky as the effort shifts to helping an injured animal.
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Everal
Bob
Bill
Red
Porky
Trixie
Forky
Jerry
James Peters
Rover
Captain
Prince
Fellows
Contest To Find Riddle Champion
A light hearted puzzle feature invites readers to a riddle contest on the Boys and Girls page. It lists riddles 91 through 100 with contributor names and prompts readers to guess answers and defend a winner next week.
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Doris Farmer
Evelyn Methot
Helen Haynes
John Engle
Roberta Thompson
George Brown
Elsa Arp
Jesse Pratt
Senerth Brady
Dorothy Dickinson
Puzzling school prep pose sheepish prompts for vacation study
A playful list of eight prompts challenges readers to recall facts. Questions cover 1925 World Series teams, Mother Careys Chickens birds, a royal charter hiding tree, a queen beheaded at sixteen, a river that sometimes flows north or south, a body of water nine times saltier than the ocean, the lighthouse of the Mediterranean, and a revolutionary reader whose grave eluded Congress decoration.
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Mother Carey
Congress
Smile Instructs To Face Trouble With Poise And Joy
A motivational note urges a steady smile to master circumstances and help others. In a story segment, Porky releases a dog named Ringer after a rescue, finding a diamond ring hidden in the paw and a twenty dollar reward. The boys celebrate and consider keeping the dog for their hike.
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Bill
Bob
Red
Porky
Fellows
Ringer
Berry picking tray for hands free use in briar thickets
An illustrated guide describes building a berry picking tray from pine triangles and a tin trough to form three compartments. It includes nailing partitions, filing sharp edges, attaching screw eyes and a shoulder sling. Useful for botanical collections or carrying sea shells as well.
Goofey Movies at Hog Show Promises Peaceful Homes
A lively feature in Goofey Movies highlights the annual Hog Show and a famed inventor Beef Onrye who, after toil, is rewarded. The scene shows Dryeb at work with a teased alarm clock invention that supposedly won’t ring, signaling a forward look at domestic gadgetry and worker contentment.
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Beef Onrye
Hymn Mix Up At School Treat Sparks Lesson
The exchange shows Bobby recalling a school tea moment when he and his mother sang a hymn. He says they sang a hymn titled We can sing full though we be, but his mother later learned the intended selection was Weak and sinful though we be.
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Mother
Bobby
Mummie
Musical Morpheus Hardware Merchant Exchange
A quirky dialogue fragment places a hardware merchant and a person named Wie in a surreal scene. The merchant claims sleep was foggy while Wie quips about a fog with a saw through it, creating a surreal, dreamlike exchange.
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Morpheus Hardware Merchant
Answers to riddles collection jumble of clues
A fragmented list of riddle prompts with partial numbers and garbled phrases. Clues include Smoke, When it can't bear you, a man on a three legged stool with a doe in his lap, Old, Minneapolis, Crane, Roller skates, a wicket game, When he taxes his memory, A musey one.
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Minneapolis
Answers to posers in sports and place names list
A fragmented reader item lists teams and places including Pittshutch Pirates and Washing ton Senators, Stormy Petrels, Charter Oak, Lady Tane Gravi, Cas signiare river in South America, Dead Sea, Stromboli volcano, plus Greene as a trailing name.
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Pittshutch Pirates
Washington Senators
Stormy Petrels
Charter Oak
Lady Tane Gravi
Cassigniare River
South America
Dead Sea
S— Greene
Puzzle language and word square clues mix in puzzle page.
A dense puzzle feature listing wordplay tasks, beheadings, word squares and a diamond puzzle with various hints. It presents groups amin nano toni onno and a long grid of horizontal and vertical clues, with solutions partially revealed and many garbled phrases.
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Amin Nano
Toni, Onno
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Harding
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Vermont Homestead
Izaak Walton
Stafford, Eng
Posers
Dale R.van Horn
Scieneye
Goofey Movies
NEHER
Dryeb
Goofey Novies
Fleaville
Gootey
Naval Base
Qve
Usas
Eppel
Moull
Fred Neher
Sherwin Hotel
Sherwin
Suiaii
Rte
Square
Name
Arid
Mind
Eddy
Liberty
Bologna
John H Smith
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