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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1911
Page
4
A poor girl Sarah finds a magical ring after freeing the prince of fairies from an orange. The ring grants wishes, letting her and her mother find a royal crown, marry the king, and live in a palace with wealth. Sarah visits the fairy prince while her mother becomes queen.
A prank involves guiding a person to place a broom handle at a floor wall angle and slide under it. If the helper faces the wall with back to wall and forms an isosceles triangle with the pole they can regain balance and stand perpendicular again.
A description of a challenge using a standard fire poker held near the top between the fingers and thumb. By manipulating finger and thumb positions the poker is raised upward while kept vertical. Initial attempts require finger strength and practice to master the unique technique.
In Gartford Connecticut a cat watched flashing signs nightly near an advertising plant. Crowds gathered as she stood on the street, narrowly avoiding being struck by passing teams. Kind shopkeeper placed the car in his window so she could view safely.
A mixed OCR fragment discusses a math trick about remainders with even numbers and sums. It also quotes Dolly’s Lullaby with a mother singing to a child, describing twilight and sleep. The text blends instructional math content with verse.
On George's fifth birthday his grandfather gives him a white and blue spotted wooden horse. George's brother Joe, age three, is unable to ride solo. George leans into the horse, whips it when tired, and the horse suddenly bolts out the front door, leaving a shocked George and an unspoken tale for the younger child.
George and Joe chase a runaway horse through a village street. Exhausted, they hire a cart. a kind farmer helps by catching the horse and returning it to the wagon. The brothers escort the horse back, ending its running days.
The article traces the sugar cane from its probable Southeast Asian origin to its spread through Europe and the Americas, noting its height, processing after harvest, and the hard work and health benefits for laborers. It lists major producing regions including the West Indian Islands, Brazil, Mauritius, and Britain’s colonies, with Mauritius hosting nearly 300 mills. It also briefly describes a cat and its eyes, contrasting adaptation and hunting behavior.
Riddle-style clue points to a winter sport, sleighing, with wordplay noting musical syllables and partial phrases. The answer Sleighing links to a festive, brisk activity, echoed by a playful breakdown of words and sounds.
In a tale from St. Nicholas a pair of clever squirrels living in an old oak near a house are found to stash a winter hoard. Each night they raid a balcony chestnut drying on the rail, feasting then hiding away unseen until discovery.
The Moharram festival features Taboots built in front of homes by rich Mohammedans. Built from bamboo and colored paper, they are decorated with isinglass gold and red green paint. On the ninth day taboot processions move through Indian streets and on the tenth day the taboots are cast into a river.
A young girl named Dot recalls her mother’s rule to give a soft answer. On a lawn, Dot breaks a neighbor boy’s kite and faces insults. She restrains her temper and replies meekly with a single word: Mush.
A child named Charlie digs a snow drift from his doorway to the sidewalk using a small shovel while his mother watches and a passerby questions the effort. The boy replies with quiet resolve, saying he will manage by keeping at it. The moment captures perseverance despite limited tools.
A fragmentary excerpt presents puzzling lines about a dog tail as a novelty and numbers described with quirky punctuation. It hints at Noah's Ark and biblical imagery, then shifts to a riddle about a button. The piece reads like playful verse with ellipses and archaic styling.
The puzzle presents a series of pictures where each image stands for the name of a foreign country whether independent or otherwise. Solve by identifying each country from the visual hints.
No. 1265. A classic brain teaser explains that every man has one, values it above all, yet spends it ceaselessly. It cannot be traded, sometimes traded for another, laid down but not picked up. It runs through our lives, varying in bitterness or sweetness, length and brevity, with baby having more, old age more yet less. It is fragile like a taper yet powerful as a mystery that baffles minds.
A set of word puzzles including No 1251 Charades with clues on a famed potter chief, No 1252 Beheaded Rhymes, No 1200 Anegram featuring Kitty and catnip tea, plus orthographical charade No 1262 with a building type described as wealth holder.
A riddle with clues about letters found in words and locations. It hints that the answer centers on the letter I appearing in certain words and absent in others, tying to a four letter word sequence. The final lines describe a word square puzzle where each clue gives a letter position, forming a four letter answer.
No 1255 presents an illustrated numerical enigma where pictured words replace descriptions. The solution is a forty two letter quotation from Ruskin, as featured in St. Nicholas.
A pair of short items describes a cow tailing flies and a milkmaid, with a wooden looper, a headpiece, nightly removal, a wall’s darkness, and a brakeman’s code. The second item mentions a lake shout, Sahara, a lamp flare, and an aging wall soon to fall.
Clue style verse presents a charade where the first part roams the garden and meddles, the second rests, and the whole produces a roar unmatched by Tom. The riddle hinges on splitting a word into two parts revealing garden roaming and meddling, forming a famous roar.
A compact note lists multiple brainteasers such as a riddle about tongs, various puzzles labeled 1243 to 1248 including beheadings metagrams and charades, with answers and fragmented clues. Names like Riddie and references to topics including fire, San Francisco, and wings appear amid terse puzzle prompts.
A fragmented column presents multiple puzzle items including a charades list with items Man hat tan Manhattan and Wedgewood repeated, a beheaded rhymes note with garbled words, an Enigma clue for Heart, a word square with Tart Ares ream tame, and partial quotations and word lists illustrating an illustrated numerical Enigma and a riddle about a switch.
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