Treasure Chest of Fun and Fact (November 9, 1961), #5

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Sneezing in the Tent

Storyline: While camping, Pierre sneezes so loudly he blows his tent into the air.

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Storyline: Instructions on how to do flower arranging.

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Storyline: The schooner Resolute finally arrives at the Florida city of Pirate's Cove, Florida. The arms smugglers get the idea of dressing up as pirates, seeing as how there's a pirate festival going on in town and they'll be able to mix in with the townspeople. The FBI agents get the same idea, but they will all be wearing eye patches. Frumson suggests the motorboat race starters use his salute cannon, when they can't find the starters gun. He leaves with Jimmy to get the cannon, when they spot the smugglers going into Martello Castle and follow them inside, where they find them with Gen. Lagarto.

The Unknown Soldier

Storyline: The story of the Unknown Soldier from world War I and how he was chosen. To this day, nobody knows who he is. Even the cemetery the body came from has been kept secret.

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Storyline: The artist made at least 60 mistakes in this drawing of Dodge City, Kansas from 100 years ago. See how many mistakes you can find.

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Storyline: Chuck uses a ham radio to get medical help for a sick boy with high fever. He's diagnosed with measles and the entire party is placed under quarantine. They may travel, but must display quarantine flags and have no contact with local people, other than to purchase food and fuel. Some of the boys catch bucketfulls of fish and they store the fish in a freezer truck. During the night, Chuck hears noises coming from inside the freezer truck and when he opens the door he finds a bear inside eating the fish.

The Story of "Babe" Didrickson Zaharias
The Pilfered Pigskin

Storyline: All the guys are waiting for Fred to show up with his football so they can start playing. He's late showing up, because someone stole Fred's football. It bothers them all, because it means that someone is a thief, but also because Fred's family can't afford many extras. With nothing to do, Jim goes home to study for a test, but Phil doesn't. Phil ends up looking at Jim's paper for the answers during the test and Joan witnesses this. She can't believe Phil would do such a thing. The questions and text article that follows discusses stealing and cheating.

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Storyline: A crosspicture and word puzzle; unscramble the words to name the birds shown; wouldn't it be funny if some words really meant what they say?

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