Two Maiden in Distress Conquerors Club Becomes Hooded Robbery Tale
Adventure strip continues as Bob Miller and the Conquerors Club chase a bandit trio after their getaway in a stolen car. On the highway they spot a stranded woman and report the theft, then pursue through the night toward Ferriston, encountering a car in a ditch as they near the scene. To be concluded next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Conquerors Club
Bob Miller
Jones
Knights
Bill
Bob
J Wet Hines
Bean
Sebo
Rob
Vowi Sng
Porky
Red
Ferriston
Hejment
BR Hill
Jis
Picture Puzzle Poem and Cocoa Gem Cakes
A collage of playful verse and recipe text features a rhymed puzzle about letters found in a drawing and a Cocoa Gem Cakes recipe by Daisy Brewer. The narrative portion follows boy detectives planning to surprise a bandit in moonlight, only to discover an empty car and a thwarted ambush.
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Daisy Brewer
Irish Posers Doll Figures for St Patrick Day Party
An old instruction piece describes coloring an Irish family in native costumes to trick fairies. It lists cities and rivers to match with colors for men and women, then explains cutting and mounting the figures to stand as decorative dolls for place cards at a St Patrick's Day gathering.
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Beny
Thoughtful sleep study on mood shifts by nightly framing
A reader describes two experiments: dwelling on a toothache and daily misfortunes before sleep left them tired and irritable. contrastingly, thinking happy thoughts before sleep left them energized and eager the next day. The piece encourages readers to try the nightly mindset shift.
Ancient Viking Boat Unearthed In Norwegian Village
About fifty years ago in Gokstadt southern Norway villagers uncovered a well preserved long wooden boat about 80 feet long buried in a mound. It was lifted cleaned repaired and placed in a museum to showcase the Norse vessel dating over a thousand years. The Norsemen inhabited Norway Iceland and nearby islands as hardy seafarers and explorers long before Columbus or Magellan.
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Gokstadt
Norway
Iceland
Columbus
Drake
Vasco de Gama
Cook
Magellan
Cause of Volcanoes Is Not Understood
The article explains that the cause of volcanic eruptions remains a mystery with several theories but little certainty. It describes moist rocks beneath the surface, intense heat toward the earth’s center, and steam pressure from decomposed water and rocks forming gases. Explosive lava forms vary as molten material rises and encounters surface water, causing violent eruptions.
Answering posers across great rivers and cities
A compact mnemonic list links famous capitals and cities to their rivers: St. Lawrence and Paris on the Seine St. Louis on the Mississippi London on the Thames Cairo on the Nile Vienna on the Danube Cincinnati on the Ohio Washington on the Potomac Buenos Aires on the La Plata Philadelphia on the Delaware.
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Ireland
Quebec
la Plata
Paris
Potomac
St. Louis
Carnube
London
Seine
Cairo
Delaware
Vienna
Mississippi
Cincinnati—Thames
Washington—St L
Buenos Aires
Qohio
Philadelphia
Posers Rebec
St. Lawrence
Thames
Cairoonie
Danube
Cincinnati
Ohio
Washington
How to Make a Bouncer Using Tube and Plank
An old inner tube and a ten foot plank with two by four timbers form a simple bouncing device. Balance it properly to reach eight to ten feet of repeated bounce, adjusting plank length for height.
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North America
West Indies
Tholes
Kokstadt
Crossword Puzzle Shapes Shamrock for St Patrick's Day
The cross word puzzle this week is in the shape of a sham rock in honor of St Patrick's day. All the Irish boys and girls should be good on this one.
Puzzle clues from Shamrock page tease hidden country name
Crossword style puzzle lists horizontal and vertical clues touching on Irish words printer's measures and abbreviations. It teases a hidden country name within the sentence and notes readers to find it while commenting on a selfish character quote and a mix of Irish terms and cultural references.
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Tommy
Guess These Four Irish Words Guess These Four Irish Words
A playful word puzzle about an Irish word diamond built from the name of a famous Irish stone. The lines hint at a compound meaning the whole, plus a cloth, a waiting notion, a number, and a vehicle beverage or plea forming a three word square.
Riddles and Fragments Narrate Oddities and Wordplay
A garbled page bursts with riddles and stray phrases. Clues reference marriages, inventions, and cryptic wordplay, interwoven with odd names and misprints. The jumbled text hints at puzzle items and nonsensical lines from a bygone issue.
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W. Boyce Morgan
All. F
Helen
S. Dearborn St
Chicago
Posers
Meen
Adventures OF
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Peter
BY Nick Nichols
Around the
Tre Bowrcer
TH Inet Iia P Wi
Cohen
the Shamrock
New England
Blarney
Siam
Yori Sre
Killarney
Onlleen
Avraits Riarvey
Pathiel i
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