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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1962
Page
12
The article notes how American Indian pictographs reflect fear, superstition, and nature. It highlights the Piasa Bird mural near Alton Illinois, once seen by explorer Pierre Marquette as the earliest white observer. The piece remarks on enduring mystery and impact of such images.
Editor Grover Brinkman presents the Piasa Bird on the Mississippi bluff near Alton Illinois as described by Father Marquette in 1673. Legends from Miami and Illini recount monsters abducting people while debate remains whether the beast existed beyond the painter’s imagination.
A call for pen pals appears in the newspaper inviting readers to send letters to Captain Hal care of the newspaper. Several children across Ohio Massachusetts Indiana Pennsylvania Mississippi Wisconsin Alabama Mexico list names ages and addresses seeking correspondence.
Puzzle Pete’s word game with endings ICE. Across and down clues yield terms ending in ice such as notice price device and service. Cartoonist Cal features B words while Behead 20 yields phrases about an apple center and mineral rock.
Odd spectacle features Leaping Lena and other ostriches racing sulkies at Indio California Riverside County Fair. Trainers in arab style robes guide the birds with brooms as speeds reach 35 to 40 miles per hour while the birds dodge fences and take shortcuts.
An amateur press club proposes spelling words as spoken to unify reading across accents. Readers from diverse regions find printed reform hard to read, illustrating how language variation resists uniform spelling and highlights the need for usage based correctness.
The notice describes yellow pictorial and 4cloud filters that haze skies and brighten clouds while improving skin tone. A red filter darkens skies nearly to black, with clouds and objects whitening. Filters fasten to the camera in front of the lens, and for box cameras film like Verichrome Pan is recommended. A photo dealer can provide more details and assist in choosing filters.
The text explains cleaning roller skates by disassembling parts. It covers unscrewing axle nuts to remove wheels and axle removing the foot plate by loosening the adjustment nut loosening toe clamp screws to remove toe clamps and soaking dirty parts in kerosene.
Instructions describe a boxed fishing game using a cardboard box with slits to hold fish drawings. Players remove fish with a bent pin hook, then score by adding the numbers on the tails to crown the champion fisherman.
The puzzle lists eleven animals whose names double as other common words or tools. Answers: 1 bat, 2 crane, 3 frog, 4 locust, 5 dog, 6 goat, 7 bear, 8 hawk, 9 ape, 10 adder, 11 kite.
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