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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1959
Page
19
A Norton husband disappeared for 43 years after a 1916 stroll and has now returned. The piece playfully questions if Rip Van Winkle was a piker and notes a claim about the Salish Indians commonly known as Flatheads.
A grid of crossword style hints lists across and down entries with numbers for both directions. The page covers numerous definitions from anatomy to astronomy and includes regional terms and common phrases.
In a duplicate pair game Jay Becker faces a hard fought hand where West doubles three diamonds. West leads the king of hearts and after a series of plays his queen of diamonds return cripples declarer's plan. The queen of diamonds proves the only defense to defeat the contract.
A comic column notes beatnik beard trends may influence razor makers, jokes about Lincoln and Lee skipping shaving, a Czech astronomer’s sunspot count, a glasses troubled Goliath, a drunken Russian confession on Moscow radio, and Britons drinking three billion cups of tea last year with a playful ad tone.
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