Spudder's Oil Well Featured in Roy Crane Cartoon
Roy Crane portrays Jo Spudder's oil well in a humorous panel. The strip centers on Spudder's misadventure with drilling plans and a comic misfortune, reflecting Crane's satirical style.
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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1968
Page
9
Roy Crane portrays Jo Spudder's oil well in a humorous panel. The strip centers on Spudder's misadventure with drilling plans and a comic misfortune, reflecting Crane's satirical style.
A Clark Kinwa r d–illustrated recap recalls the seven anniversary of the Continental Congress at Princeton amid mutiny in the Continental Army. Philadelphia troops surrounded Independence Hall a week earlier, forcing a flight to Nassau Hall as a temporary Capitol, while states balked at funding and currency redemption. Washington warned of systemic failure, and protesters were blocked at Trenton as officers thwarted efforts to resume the war near Morristown and Newburgh.
Prime time listings for July 1 1968 feature Black Gold with Anthony Quinn at 5 00 p m five o clock movie and Jungle Goddess at 6 05 p m Color Gunsmoke at 7 20 p m Color Rat Patrol at 8 30 p m Color Dialogue Today at 9 00 p m I Spy at 10 00 p m Color Joey Bishop Show at 11 30 p m Color and Late Show Abandon Ship at 12 30 a m Tyrone Power survivors in lifeboat finale
In the 1959 world championship Italy and Argentina faced off in contract bridge. Belladonna led a string of heart and club actions, overcalls, and doublings ending with Italy at five clubs while the South hand misfired, going down 3. 400 points? The other table saw a similar line with Farquet in diamonds and spade bids, but Argentina failed to make five clubs, losing 1 400 points.
A cryptogram quotation explains that one letter stands for another and hints come from single letters and word lengths. The sample shows A for L and X for O, with the day’s code varying and a second quote about pampered vanity versus pride.
Puzzle clues mix with scattered phrases naming numbers and partial words. The readable sections list crossword entries and definitions such as capital of Latvia and various European terms, but most lines are garbled OCR.
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