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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1903
Page
33
In St Louis a young man torn between baseball and country receives a unique American flag made from thirteen baseballs as stars seven hats as stripes and a long bat as the flagstaff. The gift, presented recently, is described as a hit. Also noted is the desert cactus known as the water barrel able to hold several quarts of water inside after cutting the top.
A New York Herald blurb praises a novel toy boomerang for its ingenious construction. It features three or more bevelled vanes radiating from a center with thicker rear edges and weighted ends for momentum. The piece notes a boy can learn to throw accurately and that the toy illustrates how the real deadly boomerang should be handled.
A pasted page lists No 181 to 189 puzzles including Word Squares Biagonal Acrostic Charade Diamond Suffix Puzzle and Curtailments with clues ranging from pelleted lines to separators. It presents activity prompts and partial hints for readers of a 19th century puzzle column.
A photograph shows a golf ball beside a rubber filing before compaction. The image highlights the ball's small size relative to the surrounding material and the dense packing process.
Illustration features a Shamrock brooch given by Sir Thomas Lipton to the Countess of Shaftesbury as sponsor for Shamrock III. It notes Lipton plans to reproduce the design on scarf pins and link buttons for guests if Shamrock III wins the cup race.
Puzzle listings and solutions including numerical enigma flower puzzles missing times and decapitations with word pairs and misprints. Names of puzzles, answers such as Marsh marigold larkspur dahlia violet cowslip and misread terms appear alongside entries on syllables and rebus prompts.
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