Peddler Seizes Chance To Salvage Lost Letters
A tin peddler recovers Arthur Blakely and Molly Gray letters dropped on a depot floor. Aunt Sarah intervenes, demanding a public apology from Blakely to Molly, who fends off the scheme with family support as romance tests resolve at the meadow and railway station.
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Arthur Blakebys
Bowyer
Hye
Molly Gray
Texas
Connecticut
Molly
Blakely
United States
Miss Molly
Rebecca
Sarah
Arthur Dickely
Sbe
Buly
Arthur
Arthur Blakely
Sarah Hed
Exedautans
The Tin Peddler and a Lover's Quandary
A village tale unfolds as a tin peddler crashes a wagon, scattering letters that reveal a romance. Blakely detains the thief, Aunt Sarah negotiates peace with a five dollar settlement, and a hinted engagement arises from the incident at the farm. Mrs. Williams, Willams cottage, and a three hour return journey frame a small moral about Providence and gatekeeping.
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Imanyer
Tourge
Sherlock Holmes
Willain
Arthur
Pedadler
Young
Blakely
Sarah
Molly
Mr. Blakely
Karat
Questions of the Week and Christmas Claus Lore
A Christmas themed strip mixes wordplay and shopper dialogue. The text features a narrator guiding Clarence to identify items like SCOT'S MICK and NEVER IN while noting a motherly shopper, a dentist, and post-Christmas puzzles ending with a Benedict ion from St Luke.
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Clarence
Nile OU
Batiem
Charades and Characteristic Initials Puzzles
A fragmentary page presents two puzzles Charades hinting at descriptive clues and a list of “Characteristic Initials” with numbered items and partial verses. The text references names, ballots, poets, and public figures, interwoven with cryptic phrases and hopeful wordplay.
Geographical Arithmetics in Historic Clues
Puzzle text requests adding numbers to place names to form new cities and countries. It references British India Austria Canaan France Illinois Ben gel Egypt and other fragments, forming a wordplay map of locations through numerical shifts. The fragmentary source offers no clear single event or outcome.
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India
Canaan
Foshime
France
Ilinois
China
Bengel
Egypts
Answers to Puzzles of December Five Seventy Six
Puzzle lists mix names and items across years with multiple figures and lines. It presents answers and clues including Harriet Beecher Stowe Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and every line references literary figures and odd spellings.
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Harriet, Beecher
Stowe
Hopkins
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Evangeline Bellefontaine
Miles Standish
William Black
George W. Cable
Charles Lamb
R.d.blacknore
John Ridd
Vera Doone
Charlotte
Margaret Brandt
Flair
Five Hundred And One Added To A Russian Town
A cryptic note from G. D. Dyer describes adding 501 to a Russian town and transforming it into an Italian town. The speaker, claiming no special talent, rejects lofty labels and references a strange degradation of deity as if an idol were reborn. The lines end with the numeric tag 028.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italy
G. D. Dyer
Prize Limerick Contest Winners Listed
The notice announces the prize for the best three lines completing a limerick theme with rhymes to prior lines. It names Marjorie Patterson of Elizabeth as winner and lists numerous other notable entrants such as George Sutter Nora E. James F. C. Blake and Edna Hatch among finalists.
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Marjorie Paterson
Sayre Street
Elizabeth
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Ceri
Sarat
Arnold Morton
By &. C. Farcellz
Ccorce'memanus
Sweet Heart
Raia
Tangler
E. R. Chadbourn
Melrose
Mans
Ava
Hirs
Charles
Sid
Serer
Dauweward
Raveler
Uae
New
Oleh
Mick
Harriet
Bert
Elizabeth Wister
Santa Claus
sereDee
Siek Shakespeare
Retu
Batie Pitan
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Poetesa
Virginia
Waters
Chester
Watera
Horace Waters & Co
Fifth Ave
18Th St
B’way
125Th St
New York City
OPTI
John W. Wirth
Optician
Broad SL
Bradbury
Wil
Broad St
Newark
New Ji
Ark Merchante
Journal
People
Beim Fearless
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