Conquerors Club Plans For Next Year Backfield
Ferriston High School football figures in a tale of a backfield dream. Bob Miller and Red Hopkins map a plan to convert Red into a halfback while Ruth Sayers stirs Bill with football talk. Tensions rise as Porky reels from taunts, and a decisive game looms with Ed Sand starring for Sargent.
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Bob Miller
Conquerors Club
Red Hopkins
Ferriston
Dob
Red
Bob
Bill
Ruth Sayers
Porky
Ruth
Uth
Ed Sand
Sargent
Red Head
Navy Star Advises Boys On Becoming Football Great
Navy football star Frank Wickhorst, All-American tackle and captain, urges boys to train mind and body from a young age. He recalls early days in East Aurora and Illinois, plus a lesson learned after a kickoff penalty in high school, noting family support and early football beginnings.
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Frank Wickhorst
United States Naval Academy
Wickhorst
East Aurora
Ill
University of Illinois
Annapolis
Tne
Halloween Fun Without Harm in Punkinville School House
An editorial accompanies a cartoon of Punkinville’s Halloween party showing a safer celebration. The editor recalls a prior mischievous sketch of chairs on telephone poles and pranks, questioning whether property damage is fun. The piece endorses humor that amuses without hurting or costing others.
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Punkinville
Missing Word Way Streetcar Joke Dialogue
A humorous exchange where a young man asks where to catch a street car and an ingratiating woman answers by instructing him to stand in the block and grab the door handle, followed by the cue THE MISSING WORD Way.
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Ingrate
Family Alarm Jokes Count Eight Members
A humorous line about oversleeping due to eight family members while only seven alarms were set. The pun implies the eighth person caused the delay, highlighting domestic humor.
Posers Quiz Teaches Knowledge and Alibis
A reader challenge asks who wrote The Wreck of the Hesperus and which Tennyson poem covers a Crimean cavalry charge. It inquires about the Declaration’s foreign born signers, Prague’s location, the aorta, water’s boiling point on the Centigrade thermometer, the Forty-niners, and the Lone Star state.
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Lord Tennyson
Prague
Absent-minded witness thwarts lawyer with watch gag
An exasperated lawyer cross examines a witness who admits he is habitually absent minded. The witness dryly explains he twice left his watch, first at the office and then at home, delaying the judge and the courtroom routine.
Practice Football Goal Construction Tips from Old Manual
Instructions describe building a football practice goal with two-by-four posts, cross-bars, and spikes. It covers dimensions for yard practice and scrimmage, suggests varying post height from ten feet to two heights, and mentions using four-by-four posts for a permanent goal following official field plans.
Missing Word Limericks Readies Pie Bellies
A playful limerick vignette centers on Ray who plans to dodge a pie overindulgence. His sister warns him he will burst if he eats all the pie, and Ray responds with a cheeky quip, prompting a comic closing line.
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Ray
Brother Ray
Halloween Puzzle Sparks Spooky Word Hunt
A festive Halloween crossword challenges readers with eerie clues and themed terms. The playful page invites families to test their wits while enjoying the season’s spirit and friendly competition.
Jack o Lantern and Word Chains Recap
A playful list equates terms to a spooky theme with words like apparitions and supernatural beings. It then describes a word ladder exercise: convert DOG to CAT in three steps and MORE to LESS in four steps, illustrating gradual letter changes to form valid words.
Halloween Word Diamond Puzzle Clue Solve Now
A word diamond built around small Halloween active creatures prompts a puzzle, with the second word being an animal, the third a snake, and the sixth an insect. The reader is invited to complete the chain with fitting terms.
Answers to puzzles from the page
The reader provides puzzle solutions listing crossword entries by position, a vertical word list, a small word square with ten ore and net, and a diamond word set including G Cow Cobra Goblins Wrist Ant S.
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Halloween
Abe
Witc
Ethan
Leon
Leo
Ram
Goblins
Bobs
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Lone Star
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Nick Nichols
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Deteq Pen
Just Sposin
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