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Newspaper
Big Piney Examiner
Location
Big Piney, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1939
Page
1
A collection of old jokes and cartoons includes Pat explaining mourning bands for a stepmother and a boy with a joke about a chris tened misprint. A vicar asks for a name, a waiter jokes about a noodle typo, and Ned explains his class ranking with a pun about instruction.
Questions cover topics from physics and etymology to geography and maritime communication. Includes inquiries about how light is produced in incandescent lamps the origin of nihilist the height of Lake Champlain daily telephone traffic in the capital the moniker Ex pounder of the Constitution the sea sound in conch shells the cost of shipboard phone calls and the origin of praying mantis name.
1. Heating the lamp filament makes it luminous. 2. Nihil derives from Latin nihil meaning nothing. a denier of real existence. 3. Ninety six feet. 4. Washington D C calls average one million daily. 5. Daniel Webster. 6. The circulation of the listener's blood. 7. Ship calls run 9 dollars for three minutes within 1600 nautical miles of New York and 18 dollars beyond that. 8. The mantis balances on hind legs and prays with front legs, giving the name praying mantis.
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