Turtle Doves Nesting Habits and Migration Patterns
Turtle doves nest in trees using coarse sticks and form a flat saucer shaped platform. They lay two white eggs and rear two young, sometimes raising a third brood. In fall they migrate individually in large stubble fields, gathering in groups before moving on. The birds are pale pearl gray with a long tail and wide wings, flying swiftly. Watch for El Comancho’s Next Campfire Story.
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Ohio River
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St. Louis
el Comancho
Improving Your Tennis Game: American and Reverse Twist Serves
Manuel Alonso and R L Murray describe two serve methods, the American twist and the reverse twist. The American twist uses top and side spin with a high contact point and a follow through inside the baseline. The reverse twist starts with the racquet to the right, delivering a reverse spin that makes the ball curve right then sharply left.
Malay Girls Teeth Must Be Filed Off Before Marriage
A historical note describes Malay bridal custom where a girl near 14 marries after her teeth are filed to a fraction of their length. While the bride endures pain, feasting and celebration proceed around her. The process takes about an hour and leaves the gums swollen and the mouth sore.
Bride Adopts New Wedding Day Hair Fashion
A bride three days before her marriage has her hair cut short across the forehead to form a narrow fringe and crimson nail staining. Reported as a fashionable trend for young brides, the modification aims to add a stylish, modern look to the wedding feast.
The Boy Who Couldn't Lose at North Side Tennis Club
The North Side Tennis Club witnesses Dave Shade lose a match to his best friend Johnny Albert who then provokes a rift as Dave sulks and Betty Shade fears for his sportsmanship. Johnny contemplates suspending Dave from the club to teach him a lesson while Betty hopes Lake Cameron vacation might change him.
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North Side Tennis Club
Seb
Dave Shade
Dave
Johnny Albert
Johnny
Nm Ogtin
Betty Shade
Betty
Shade
Lake Cameron
Bety
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Albert
Guess These Four Articles Of Clothing
Four word puzzles ask to unscramble names of famous English poets from BONEY LESHEYL PASHERBAKES LONNENTY. Then a word-chain puzzle changes BELL to RING in six valid steps and ROPE to TOLL in three. Finally two girls’ names are hidden in a sentence about lending a pad for a table.
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Boney
Lesheyl
Pasherbakes
Lonnenty
Clean Up After Picnics and Preserve Natural Areas
An editorial urges readers to pick up litter after picnics in parks and country areas. It stresses using park trash cans or burning or burying waste when safe, and recounts seeing trash in a lake. It calls for respect for others and keeping beauty spots in good condition.
Readers Send In Recipes Then Publish The Candy Recipe
The column thanks contributors for past recipe letters and announces will publish them periodically. This week’s recipe, by Elsie May Baker, explains how to make caramels using brown sugar butter milk chopped nuts and boiling to a soft ball in cold water then thickening.
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Lie L. Smith
Eha Bf. Burhart
Helen Halope
June Street
Eloise Canell
Elizabeth Trompas
Eunice Bleck
Jane Dempsey
Leona Postma
Nettle Feaslee
Rosamond Bothwell
Lorraine Barnes
Lillian Burton
Marian Louise Muir
Faith Kelford
Zelma Nielson
Georgiana Bishaw
Dean Laversee
Elsie May Baker
Use Your Own Name To Make Clever Bookmarks
A vintage advice piece suggests making personalized bookmarks using a six inch white cardboard strip. It describes adding a name as a hat over a face, the text Her Book, and a small circle for the book number. Readers transfer a face to the slip and add their own first name, using watercolors or ink for lettering.
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Tle
Corinne
The Fun Box The Last First
A quirky dialogue exchanges witty lines about birthdays books and geography. Mabel and a clerk discuss suitable gifts and book endings while a teacher tests Willie with a pun about a peninsula and a neck of dirt.
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Mabel
Willie
Answers to puzzles list and wordplay clues
Puzzle solutions include Cross Word Puzzle Solution and Hat with related rhymes. The set names clothing items cape Tarts smwl and sheater, and literary figures Byron Shelley Shakespeare Tennyson. Word ladder results BELL bil lw i wile winewing RING ROPE role roll TOLL. Names Helen and Mary appear as listed.
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Manuel Alonso
R. Lindley Murray
Adventures OF
Peter Pen
BY Nick Nichols
Machols
Bumpty
Hans. Sine
Rosey
Wiley
Isi
W. Boyce Morgan
Editorial
Ding
Italy
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