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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1962
Page
8
Thadeus Q Fenimore a Halloween ghost fears heights and fails at haunting. He slips downstairs to a party, accidentally trips, joins the kids for treats and ghost stories, groaning lessons, and discovers the children prefer him as he is.
Create a spooky page marker using orange or black paper and two gummed skeleton stickers. Cut or fold a 4x2 inch piece, align orange sheets or scraps, then paste seals back to back over the center fold so a ghostly head peeks when slipped onto a page.
Miss Glee the ghost leads a haunting musical trend as she discovers a new swing style. The ghost choir adapts from Halloween performances to a nationwide boom across schools and communities.
The snowy owl hunts in daylight in Arctic regions, gliding unseen thanks to soft feather edges. Adults are nearly all white with brown streaks, nesting in sand or snow hollows and relying on both parents to hatch eggs. Owlets hatch with light dawn covering, and parents tirelessly feed and warm them as they grow though their numbers are small.
A San Francisco taxidermist Roy A Heist runs a loft shop supplying voodoo items to self styled witch doctors. Heist lists dozens of practitioners, describes authentic ingredients from deer jaws to powdered rhinoceros horn, and notes a steady demand for magical remedies without revealing formulas.
Uncle Dennis explains the origin of jack o lanterns from Irish lanterns in America. He notes pumpkins replaced potatoes and turnips for Halloween parades, carving goblin like faces to frighten goblins and elves on Halloween nights.
A Halloween pen pal listing invites readers to mail their name address and age to Captain Hal with several child names and ages across multiple U S addresses. The notice lists participant ages and locations in Michigan Ohio Virginia and other states as examples.
A brief note describes a shift from fantasy to science in Ethel Jacobson’s new books. It contrasts elves and dragons with everyday people and real, factual elements, signaling a move toward practical themes.
The puzzle lists eight words with animals concealed inside. Answers: 1 pear contains ape, 2 perishes contains sheep, 3 vi olin contains lion, 4 regiment contains tiger, 5 flower contains wolf, 6 Christopher contains ostrich, 7 amputate contains puma, 8 lemon contains mole.
Dual Pete column presents a word triangle with six clues across and down to complete. Then it asks if you can change a writing Slate to Black in five moves by altering one letter at a time with valid words, followed by a WORD SQUARE task and a punny sentence: Puzzle Pete’s missing words sound alike but are spelled differently, complete the sentence: The cans of were arranged in a single.
The notice states prohibition on reproduction except by permission of the Newspaper Enterprise Association and that it is printed in the United States of America.
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