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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1962
Page
8
Alfie, teased as a coward by friends for avoiding a rooftop water dare, acts quickly to save a girl from a car and earns newfound respect. Vince admits the dare was foolish and praises Alfie's courage, ending with a quiet bond formed on Main Street.
Ants, while pests, can entertain. Build an ant village with a wooden frame glass and a sand filled lower area. Observe tunnels and worker ants as they move. Ants biology includes queens workers and drone roles. nests vary from a few dozen to hundreds of thousands.
A newspaper notice invites readers to mail pen pal letters. It lists multiple young individuals with names and ages across several U S locations including Ohio North Carolina Alabama Indiana Mississippi and Texas.
Bamboo has long served many roles from sending silkworm eggs to Turkey to shipping shells from the South Pacific. It is a perennial grass reaching up to 120 feet in some species and grows mainly in tropical Asia and Africa with some types in North America. Its joints form walls and containers, mats, furniture, and tools, while shoots provide food for humans and cattle.
The text discusses bamboo's diverse applications from fencing and bridges to rope and ointment. It highlights how natives learn to use different bamboo types and the dangers of cuts during rough work, framing bamboo as a natural gift from nature.
Puzzle text presents a scrambled sentence about Mary Harrison and Mrs Elizabeth Walker Blaine and relatives. It lists a diamond puzzle with word clues including Dimmock name and a courtesy title and a Pacific island group. The reversed hometown and relatives names appear alongside a crossword like set of clues and dates.
Puzzle asks to spot embedded study subjects in phrases. Each line hides school subjects or fields such as Latin civics English history French math science and an extra Hbot term. The list combines 16 items across two columns with a mix of obvious and tricky inclusions.
Instructions describe making desk paper weights by filling tall wine bottles or odd shaped bottles with marbles sand or colored inks or vegetable dyes. Tops are sealed with aluminum foil and cellophane tape for decorative weights.
A discussion notes how climbing plants such as Morning Glory and Kentucky Wonder Beans twist counterclockwise south of the equator while northern plants twist the opposite direction. It suggests reversing a vine’s growth by tying it to a pole in the opposite direction, but explains no definitive cause for the phenomenon.
A short poem about a blue and yellow polka dot umbrella that inspires cautious outdoor plans. The speaker vows to stay dry and indoors to keep the new umbrella pristine.
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