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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1908
Page
22
A set of wordplay clues asks to behead phrases to reveal new words. It features military study a brook an industrial site flour mill sickness a master mechanic a forbidden act a thin man and lumber. The page also includes jokes about Adam’s creation time Eve Jonah Moses and a whale.
Switzerland issues a stamp portraying Henric Tell, son of William Tell, holding his father’s crossbow and the arrow pierced apple. A companion stamp shows Helvetia with the Alps in the background, per W Dwight Burroughs.
Riddle prompts readers to substitute letters and spaces to reveal hidden phrases. The first line reads Yyuryyub ITcuryy 4 me as Yuri yub it cure y for me. The second line uses zeros representing letters. decoding yields a classical letter puzzle about giving and taking with thy and me, indicating a riddle format where 0 stands for an omitted letter.
A playful letter asks readers to solve a riddle about five airy beings. One in glass is set, another you will find in set, a third in tin is set, the fourth a shining box within, and the fifth follows if pursued but will never fly away.
Puzzle notes present riddles and wordplay. The lines describe a squirrel with ears of corn and a ciphered arithmetic riddle, ending with a comparison about measures of dozens.
In a warm meadow evening a man and boy watch swallows swarm near barn eaves catching insects. A past memory reveals a hat trick catching a swallow, then freeing the bird who resumes flight among its many companions.
John helps Jenny find a dime at the schoolhouse and a grateful teacher rewards him with a silver dime and a show ticket. A sharp eyed woman watches the dime drop and retrieve, recognizing John’s honesty.
A blindfolded player stands center with two spoons while others circle and clap to a march. On the cue spoons, he reaches any player by touch and must identify them with the spoons. If correct, that player is blindfolded and the game repeats.
A playful verse recalls Little Mischief being reproved for raiding Granny’s basket. A brood of chicks arrives in spring. Mischief exclaims that Granny’s floss has legs and flees, taking the treasured silk and yarn as if gems in a casket.
A child’s toy world fractures as the doll laments a Teddy Bear rival enthralling its nursery kingdom. The narrator mourns lost sovereignty and loyal subjects drawn to the new plush intruder amid dramatic, declamatory pleas.
A Tennessee tiger escaped during circus loading near Knoxville after a derailment. Texas cowboy and trainer used a box with a hole and a lasso to capture the animal, pulling it into a dry goods box and securing it, though the handler suffered a bad cut.
An account recalls the Porcelain Tower of China in Nankin finished in 1430 and destroyed in 1856 by Taiping rebels. The octagonal nine story structure stood 260 feet high with porcelain slabs, bells on each corner and 128 lamps, topped by a pineapple shaped pinnacle.
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