Jimmy Wins His Spurs
Jimmy Ryan, a copy boy at the Evening Express, expresses hope for a reporters’ chance after idolizing Et Gable and failing to win John Hastings as an interview, then witnesses a dramatic street scene with a chauffeur and a rich man, John Hastings, as tension and ambition collide before the cliffhanger ending.
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Haidy Ryan
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Evening Express
Altho
Et. Gable
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the Express
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Mr. Jones
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John H. Hastings
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Divinity Fudge Recipe From Zelma Nielsen
Divinity fudge instructions from Zelma Nielsen include maple syrup vinegar vanilla and egg white components. The method describes boiling sugar water and syrup to thread stage then folding into stiff egg whites and chopped nuts before pouring into pans to cool and cut into shapes. It also thanks readers Rose Ebel Gertrude Arthur Marguerite Tuck Doris Mutlikan Miriam Stephenson Carolina Burmer Esther Thietse and Marion Kern for letters this week.
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Ebel
Gertrude Arthur
Marguerite Tuck
Doris Mutlikan
Miriam Stephenson
Carolina Burmer
Esther Thietse
Marion Kern
Zelma Nielsen
India rubber man suffer tent collapse crowd gathers
A deafening report and croon drew a crowd to a distant tent corner where a form lay silent on the ground. Witnesses wondered if someone had been shot as it seemed a cage or structure might have fallen while the India rubber man suffered a blowout.
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India
Canoe Safety Lessons From El Comancho Campfire Tales
A vintage guide explains canoe stability by the water line. It warns that weight above the water line makes a craft top heavy and unsafe, while keeping weight low prevents tipping. It cautions against placing hands on the sides to lift yourself, which shifts weight above the pivotal line.
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B&b
Ancient Pompeii Bakery Unearthed In Ruins Of Vesuvius
Vesuvius eruption around 73 A D left Pompeii buried in ash preserving houses and shops. An uncovered bakery shows primitive stone mills, an hourglass grinder, and worn stones yielding flour traces, revealing bread making two thousand years ago.
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Editorial Vacation Days Are Over
A persuasive editorial urges students to return to school, noting vacation days end and education equips for future success. It warns against laziness, stressing that steady study leads to usefulness, happiness, and rewards, while loafing yields a life of insignificance as an adult.
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Stady
Reminder of Hooks and Shelves Used to Help Mother
A brief line describes hooks and shelves made for use with hats and items for games books and toys to support Mother. The text emphasizes transferring items toward the side of the boat to keep balance as water rises.
Riddles Shared By Girl Reader Nora Fitzgerald
A girl reader named Nora Fitzgerald sends a set of playful riddles for publication this week. The questions mix wordplay and logic about animals and everyday curiosities, inviting readers to ponder why a cow's tall Uke swan's breast and other puzzling phrases.
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Nora Fitzgerald
Garden of Eden
Canoe Safety Note From Aboard A Rough Trip
A cautionary tip stresses balance in a canoe with guidance to sit on the bottom or knee when paddling. It advises experienced canoeists to avoid high seating and warns against placing hands in unsafe positions during the voyage.
The Adventures of Peter Pen by Nick Nickols
A fragmentary newspaper item mixes comic snippets and word puzzle answers. It mentions a pardoned applicant and a circus home arrival, followed by puzzle solutions and scattered odd quotes.
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Peter Pen
Jumbled Word Square of Dog Breeds
A compact puzzle item presenting four scrambled dog breed names REBIERT LICOLE NERGDOUHY SEINKPEHGE to unscramble. It gives cryptic hints about removing middle letters to form related words and notes homophones in a misquoted sentence, inviting readers to solve the ight words.
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Rebiert
Licole
Nergdouhy
Seinkpehge
CROSS WORD PUZZLE RUZZLE WORD CHAIN Challenge
In summer we follow trails through woods and hear birds overhead. Four of the words used are hinted in this chain game Your task: change PATH to WIND in six moves and BIRD to CALL in five by altering one letter at a time, keeping each step a valid word.
Puzzle column opens with jumbled word square challenge
The puzzle column presents a jumbled word square as this week's brain exercise inviting readers to solve and enjoy.
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