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Newspaper
El Paso Daily Herald
Location
El Paso, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1900
Page
10
A dame near the zoo introduces friends to the Jobbernowls with smiles. The magical broom descends as she presents each Jobbernowl to beasts that snarl and srowl, who bow and dispute the entertainment in turn.
In a Boston Herald piece, talking toys in Polly's wardrobe argue which frock the birthday girl will choose. Polly receives a new plaid birthday dress. the other frocks retreat, envious and dejected as Polly’s mother praises the gift.
Miss Frances Power Cobbe notes geese show sharp humor through a prank on pigs. A flock formed a lane and forced the pigs to run a gauntlet, biting with their bills to enjoy the terror and squeals of the perplexed porkers.
A playful verse tells of a merry maiden who ignored greetings manners and curfews. She slammed doors ran away and found sadness behind her laughter. The riddle asks who she was and suggests the answer lies in her defiance of expected duties.
A pleasant month, a mountain chain, small horses, and otherwise form a four clue word square published in the Aime NY issue number 154. The puzzle invites solvers to find four related words crossing to fit the square.
A brief item notes a triangle wide situation with an intermittent fever passing a partial prefix and a letter.
A jumble of quoted lines and clues asks to complete each blank with a single alphabet letter. Phrases reference poems, names, and common phrases, hinting at letters to fit into the missing spots. The fragmentary item appears as a word puzzle or literary exercise.
Two quick brain teasers. First, a man with 20 yards of silk cuts off 1 yard per day. the remaining length drops by one each day until none remains. Second, A has three times B’s money. after they give 5 shillings each to charity A has five times B’s money. Find original amounts in shillings.
No. 158 through No. 159 present a set of clues for a crossword style puzzle. The list includes definitions for terms such as repulse harshly, imaginative language, and a magical command from Arabian Nights. It also references South African villages, undress, and Jewish quarters in Italian towns. The puzzle culminates with a pair of thematic connections to famous painters.
The puzzle presents two images representing distinct transport modes. One figure suggests land travel by wagon or cart. the other implies water travel by boat or ship. Both clues point to everyday transportation modes from the period.
An old farmer jokes as he passes a load of hay saying it weighs a two. He believes his rough wisdom beats standard measures in a rural moment.
A set of nine wordplay clues asks to behead a word and reveal a new term. Each line pairs an original word with the resulting object or concept after removing its first letter. Subjects include wrangle wander band wood bones hindrance distribution earth dug item corrosion and correctness.
A curious instruction asks to pick a word in the first ten lines and near the line end, then perform a series of arithmetic steps. The final result yields a coded triple: page, line, and word number from the random selection.
The page lists multiple brainteasers including Metagram No 147 and 149 Wild Flowers with items like Violet and Dandelion, along with an Illustrated Primal Acrostic and a Famous Nicknames section featuring initials for figures such as George Washington and Napoleon, plus an Arithmetical Puzzle and a set of Anagrams.
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