This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 6 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1976
Page
11
A cryptic style word list puzzle with clues and numbered entries across a grid. Includes various wordplay prompts such as synonyms, prefixes and cross reference hints, inviting solvers to fill in a crossword like grid.
The page explains a daily cryptoquote puzzle with a substitution cipher. It shows an example encoded line and a quotation by William Makepeace Thackeray, noting that one letter stands for another. The method uses word length and letter patterns to decode.
In a four spades doubled contest with East opening diamonds, South faces a tough decision. Expert Charles Goren explains defensive lines to defeat penalties and takeouts, and guides readers on when to sacrifice trump tricks. A DOUBLES booklet offer follows with address and price.
Area manager Kenneth Knese of Justrite stores in Kansas City and Neil Golub of Price Chopper in Albany urge substitutes to curb rising coffee costs. Some retailers expect consumer revolt without urging while others push boycott-like messaging to drive demand down amid Brazil crop damage and African unrest. Congress inquiry into coffee price increases also underway led by Rep. Benjamin Rosenthal.
Los Angeles AP reports Dino De Laurentiis urges voters to consider the 40 foot ape King Kong for best actor as the film previews. Some viewers find the publicity pitch earnest while others doubt Kong will reach the Oscar stage amid wide national release of 1,043 theaters.
Soil conservation workers led by Bobby McGee urge landowners to assess soil loss on raw cropland. Farms often lose 10 to 25 tons per acre yearly, far above the four ton limit. Conservation measures aim to keep land fertile and profitable, with long term payoff. Allen Coward notes conservation pays.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.