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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1958
Page
9
An army man visits a doctor in a brief scene where the patient reveals he is old Tom’s son and praises the doctor. The doctor then urges discarding the prescription and the two discuss traffic. The piece ends with a quip on drivers forcing pedestrians to be cautious.
A salesman completes the furnishing for a lawyer's office and adds a request for a well worn doormat. A circus joke concludes that a performer shot from a cannon never worried about losing his job, since no other man could match his caliber.
An anecdote recalls Queen Frederika of Greece with an elaborate title. A store owner uses a cash register rarely noting cash for a buy while a friend comments on keeping tallies in his head.
A famous jockey grows ill and the trainer urges a doctor. Later the jockey Benjamin lies in agony in the stable. The trainer jokes about a brass plate reading Dr Karem Ten to one, noting he would not trust a long shot.
A scrambled crossword grid of across and down clues with clues such as Flesh of calf and Outcasts with a cryptoquote puzzle stating LONGFELLOW mapped by a simple substitution cipher. Includes yesterday's quote A WOMAN'S WHOLE LIFE IS A HISTORY OF THE AFFECTIONS by IRVING and notes on solving the code.
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