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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1954
Page
18
The page blends a cryptic word puzzle with scattered notes on clues. It includes crosswise hints about proverbs, weather, and reading into terms like land slide and dam versus seam, plus a brief news item about a theft and a scientific report on cobalt radiation effects on tulip bulbs.
The Charleston Gazette offers a $100 prize for this week’s crossword puzzle with six thousand six hundred fifty six entries. no winner, but some correct words appeared such as mesh and dam. Entries must be postmarked by tomorrow midnight. results announced next Sunday.
A Lewis Street man reported a four foot long antique sword with an 1847 engraving and blood staining stolen. Del Owens said the blood had been on the blade for years and valued the weapon at forty dollars.
Cross Lanes Lions Club votes to run a fund raising campaign from tomorrow through June 21 to raise 1200 dollars for the Cross Lanes Volunteer Fire Dept debts. Alexander J. Waugh of Goodwill Industries Charleston cites ongoing efforts to help the unemployed and distressed workers.
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