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| Publication | May 24, 1962 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 2 | Frequency: Every two weeks during the school year. |
| Notes | wraparound cover; the poem, "Memorial Day", by Joyce Kilmer is printed on the back cover |
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| Cover | Memorial Day May 30 |
| Notes | wraparound cover; the poem, "Memorial Day", by Joyce Kilmer is printed on the back cover |
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| Activity | Do You Know Your States and Capitals? (1 page) |
| Synopsis | A map of the USA with the first letter of the name of the state and the first letter of the capitol city shown as clues. How many states and capital cities do you know? |
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| Comic Story | Word Magician The Story of Joyce Kilmer (4 pages) |
| Synopsis | The story of Joyce Kilmer, the poet who wrote the poem, "Trees". He was killed in combat in France, during World War I. |
| Content | Genre: Biography | Characters: Joyce Kilmer |
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| Synopsis | The police can't tell one gorilla from another. They think Cousin Fudley is King Kongo, a real gorilla. Sharp thinks Fud is a real gorilla. Sharp wants to crash the fire engine he's driving into the Whoopieland office building, so that the police will think someone else was driving. Sharp finds Wiffletree getting ready to run away with all of their money. They plan on getting rid of the baby gorilla for good, when Fud bursts in the room still wearing his gorilla suit. Sharp runs off into the Funhouse and Fud runs into the House of Mirrors, where Sharp is hiding. |
| Featuring | Uncle Harry's Monkey's Uncle |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor | Characters: Cousin Fudley; Mr. Sharp; Mr. Wiffletree; Baby |
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| Synopsis | Directions for making a beach bag. |
| Featuring | Patsy Planner |
| Content | Genre: Domestic | Characters: Patsy Planner |
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| Comic Story | How Cameras Work (3 pages) |
| Synopsis | A look at how a camera is able to take a photograph and an experiment to make a pinhole camera from a small cardboard box at home that actually works and can take pictures. |
| Featuring | T.C. Experimental Station |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Anthropomorphic-funny Animals; Math & Science | Characters: Prof. Gunther Q. Mouse; Murphy |
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| Comic Story | Photo Fun (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | Tips on how you can use your camera to take rolls of film that can be filled with tricks, professional-like portraits and more interesting vacation photos. |
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| Comic Story | Property Problem (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Some of the boys ride their bicycles on Mr. Bakers lawn and break his bird bath by accident. Baker sees them ride off and calls for them to stop, but they don't. Some of the girls don't blame him for being angry, because they had no right to ride through his yard. They should have stopped and offered to replace the bird bath. Other girls think it would be silly to stop if there was a chance they weren't seen. Things like that are bound to happen when you live near a school and you have to expect it. Susan feels she has to buy a new copy of a book she borrowed from Joan.The cover got torn. |
| Featuring | The Little Things |
| Content | Characters: Phil Morgan; Mr. Baker; Marge; Pat; Joan; Susan; Beth; Fred |
| Notes | An ongoing series, whereby a situation is set up in 4 pages with no resolution and the reader is asked to judge what the right thing to do is in the given situation. One text page of 20 true/false questions about the story you just read follows, along with 2 discussion questions. There is another text page which discusses the moral implications of both sides of the story. The correct answers to the questions are upside-down on the bottom of the page and you can tally your score on a scoresheet. |
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| Comic Story | Mysterious Mars (3 pages) |
| Synopsis | The editor of Treasure Chest takes us on an imaginary trip to Mars. A look at Mars and its moons and the possibility of life on the red planet. |
| Content | Genre: Humor; Anthropomorphic-funny Animals; Math & Science | Characters: Treasure Chest editor; Martian |
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| Synopsis | Chuck goes to the locker room after the game to speak with Rocky, who tells him he didn't throw the game, he just had a bad day. Rocky tries to prove it to Chuck by fielding well in the next day's game. Spud is fuming from the stands. After hitting a double and a single, Rocky steps up to the plate again. The pitcher throws the ball like a rifle bullet. Will he hit it, or pass it up? |
| Featuring | Chuck White and His Friends |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Chuck White; Rocky Stoner; Stoney Stoner; Spud Rankin |
| Notes | Max Pine was an alias of Frank Moss, per 2006 interview with Frank Borth: "You can find out in reading your things he also uses the word Max Pine as a substitute for him because he didn't want them to think he was writing everything in the place..." http://cuislandora.wrlc.org/islandora/object/cuislandora%3A40849 |
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| Comic Story | Diving Board Folly (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Pierre tries to dive but his feet hit the diving board. |
| Featuring | Pierre |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Pierre |
| Notes | Pantomime gag strip told in 6 panels.
On inside back cover. |
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