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| Publication | October 23, 1958 | Price: 0.10 USD | Pages: 1 | Frequency: published every two weeks during the school year |
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| Featuring | Let Freedom Ring |
| Content | Genre: Drama |
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| Synopsis | Three activities. An archeologist found a stone with hieroglyphics on it. Use this piece of papyrus to help translate the message on the stone. Farmer Jones has seven cows on his field. How can he divide the field so that each cow is in a separate section? Mumbo Jumbo has a bottle with a coin sitting on a broken wooden match on the top of the bottle opening. Can you make the coin fall into the bottle without touching it? Answers upside-down on the bottom of the page. |
| Featuring | Game Page |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Sir Flinders Blinkingheim; Farmer Jones; Mumbo Jumbo |
| Notes | inside front cover |
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| Synopsis | Steven and Joe play baseball with the other boys and a home run breaks a window. They want to run away, but the other boys make them stay to face the music. A policeman shows up and brings them into the homeowner's house to talk things over. All of the boys take odd jobs to earn money to pay for the window. The policeman gives them a tour of the police station and as a surprise, shows them some vacant land that the city is buying to turn into a playground for the town's kids. The policeman tries to explain what it's like to be a cop in the USA, so that Joe and Steven won't distrust cops. |
| Featuring | Let Freedom Ring |
| Content | Genre: Drama | Characters: Steven Esterhazy; Joe Esterhazy |
| Notes | Prepared under the supervision of the Commission on American Citizenship, Catholic University of America, Washington, D. C. |
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| Comic Story | Can a Sailboat Sail Against the Wind? (3 pages) |
| Synopsis | A sailor explains to Danny and Helen how a sailboat can sail from one port to another, even if the wind is against it all the way. A study in aerodynamics and physics. |
| Content | Genre: Non-fiction | Characters: Danny; Helen; a sailor |
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| Comic Story | Chapter Four (6 pages) |
| Synopsis | Frumson tries out for the job of elephant trainer when the real trainer is taken ill and rushed to the hospital. |
| Featuring | The Champ in the Circus! |
| Content | Genre: Adventure; Humor | Characters: Frumson (The Champ) Wooters; Col. Horatio Hornbeam; Blackie Salter; Gunboat; Mr. Slade |
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| Comic Story | Ships Through the Ages Part I (2 pages) |
| Synopsis | A look at the history of ships, starting from a caveman using a log. Goes up to the 8th century when the Vikings had the finest ships at the time. Will be continued in a future issue. |
| Content | Genre: Historical |
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| Comic Story | Part 2 (7 pages) |
| Synopsis | This issue looks at Greek and Hebrew music and the instruments that were used in those times. |
| Featuring | The ♪-Book [The Note- Book] |
| Content | Genre: Historical | Characters: Pan; Apollo; Plato; Pythagoras; Moses; King Saul; David |
| Notes | The title uses the symbol for a music-note instead of the word, "note". |
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| Synopsis | The river is rising and Steeltown is in danger of being flooded. Dutch doesn't understand why the Army Corps. of Engineers is going north to build an earth dike, when he thinks they should be building it here where he is. The Army engineers will flood the low land before the flood crest arrives. Mike is amazed at how Capt. Corning knows how many cubic yards of earth is needed to form a dike and how much earth their equipment can move per hour. As the river starts to flood, the dike is high enough to hold back the water and they blast a hole to allow the river to flood the low lands. |
| Content | Genre: Adventure | Characters: Chuck White; Mike Kelly; Joe Kelly; Dutch Berger; Captain Corning |
| 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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| Featuring | You're Important! |
| Credits | Letters: typeset |
| Content | Genre: Religious |
| Notes | Text article with four accompanying illustrations. |
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| Comic Story | Moose Hunting (1 page) |
| Synopsis | Pierre is chased by a moose and cornered, then forced to give the animal a ride in his car. |
| Featuring | Pierre |
| Content | Genre: Humor | Characters: Pierre |
| Notes | Inside back cover; pantomime gag-strip told in five panels. |
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| Publisher advertisement | Discover Treasure Chest (1 page) |
| Synopsis | A nun and two comically drawn children are in a school science laboratory and observe an issue of Treasure Chest in an Ehrlenmyer flask with the top of the flask going to a condenser and the liquid contents dripping into a beaker. There is a bunsen burner under the Ehrlenmyer flask to heat the contents. The reader is asked to discover how much help teachers can "distill" from the pages of Treasure Chest. The above laboratory glassware is used in distillation. |
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