Dam Break Rescue Follows Courageous Drive Through Flood
In a small village near Mount Maro, eight years after a deadly flood, two youths John Shelton and Frances Mead race through a mudfilled road in a car to warn Sedgewick of a dam about to fail. The people gather on higher ground as the Deer River flood sweeps through, but thanks to the siblings and their rescue effort no repeat tragedy occurs. Ed, with a badly sprained ankle, is saved and will be retrieved as the water recedes.
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Rocco the boy who grew into a banker from Broadway
An editorial vignette recalls Rocco a ten year old Italian boy who sold newspapers on a famous Broadway corner thirty years ago. Despite poverty he smiled and earned more papers than rivals. The piece urges readers to adopt his cheerfulness as a path to success and resilience amid hardship.
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Rocco
Broadway
The Fun Box Me Lamp Joke Dialogue
A cartoonish exchange centers on a lamp asked its age by another character. The lamp replies its age as about three years. The other comments it is too young to smoke, delivering a humorous line about age and behavior.
Pianos Evolved From Dulcimer Origin
The article traces piano development from the dulcimer, noting it began as a flat wood sound board with two hammered strings. Over time sound boxes and keys were added, yielding the modern piano, essentially a keyed dulcimer with larger size and keyboard action.
Panther the Ferocious Jungle Predator
An illustrated description portrays the panther as a ferocious and treacherous jungle predator. It details stealth, hunting prowess, preference for deer goats and primates, and the panther’s proud, graceful coat. Cubs begin snarling at three weeks and are hard to train as pets.
A North Country Flies This Flag
A North Country Flies This Flag Flag Number 29.
What Country and Its Flag Clues
A quiz about a nation noted for its farm produce, owning Greenland, naming butter as its chief export, and a small peninsula island geography with Copenhagen as capital. The prompt asks to color stripes and cut and paste the flag colors correctly.
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Greenland
Toeland
Copenhagen
Ita
The Crocodile Seeks Dentist After Tooth Aches
A whimsical scene depicts a crocodile in pain seeking a dentist after an acerbic episode. The narrative shifts to a zebra and mule in a surreal 700 series image, with military service stripes noted and a humorous punchline about a service animal.
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Little Brother
Posers 5 Eight reader prompts for a scrapbook study
A reader suggests printing eight posers as regular features for a scrapbook. It proposes pasting them in and revisiting them later to test recall, using the scrapbook for fact gathering and pleasant evenings of study. Questions include Glider, telephone inventor, India’s capital, Treasure vs. Tana, Ava’s export, Hannibal, Jerusalem, and Rhodes Colossus.
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Hannibal
Jerusalem
Rhodes
Odd Mud-Skipper Pariophthalmnus From Indian Ocean Shores
The mud-skipper Pariophthalmnus, an ancient fish family member, sits on mud flats using strong pectoral fins as arms. It watches surroundings with protrusible eyes, climbs roots and bushes when alarmed, and is native mainly to shores of the Indian Ocean.
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Indian Ocean
Maze Puzzle Challenge Seeks Lowest Score To Reach Home
Puzzle snippet invites readers to navigate from entrance to home without scoring against themselves. It hints at achieving zero or minimal points, emphasizing staying between sites and avoiding crossing them. The fragment suggests a cautious, pathfinding exercise with scoring rules and constraints.
Mix-up prompts bride to call husband home in chilly scene
A frantic bride phones her new husband because wires are mixed up. She jokes the radio is covered with white frost while the electric ice box sings Way Out West in Kansas, creating a humorous domestic moment.
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Kansas
Musician Responds To Questioned Identity In Kentucky
A terse exchange unfolds as a man jokes about a Kentucky frame and a jazz band. The woman asks if he is a Kentuckian and he replies simply that he is a musician.
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Jaza
Kentucky
Riddle Contest Puzzles and Cobwebs in Today's Paper
Readers test wits with a garbled feature on riddles and wordplay. Questions range from beheaded numbers to biblical names and Noahs Ark. The tone echoes a playful 20th century quiz column inviting original riddles for the Riddle Editor.
Wild animal encounter on farm spooks Norma during weekend visit
Norma visits a country farm with friend Doris. Despite warnings she ventures toward the barn where a mule pursues her. Doris' father appears, misreads Norma's fear, jokingly misnames the mule as a playful kitten.
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Norma
Doris
Jerry
Puzzle page word square and clues from 1920s paper
A playful puzzle page features a spring themed word square and a maze style crossword. Directions list horizontal and vertical clues with terms like bite, pronoun, fragrance, debate, gardening, transportation, and growth, plus a five word diamond puzzle and a long garbled answer section.
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