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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1906
Page
11
A playful excerpt explains each line of a verse as an abbreviated state term. The first line clued by a state losing health yields T11 as the answer. Readers are invited to deduce the remaining abbreviations tied to the clues.
A West African tale follows Maria who owns a talking mirror that confirms beauty. After her daughter disobediently questions the mirror, the girl is spared by soldiers, hides with robbers, is enchanted by a witch, and later revived when a man’s daughter awakens the imprisoned girl in a golden casket.
In a great city a Bronze Owl living with twenty four companions and Queen Minerva longs to fly. A king Carrier Pigeon sends him to read electric sign signals, but the signs blind him until a Crow lends smoky spectacles. The Owl vows to return with the largest cheese for the Crow after learning to fly. He then departs to explore the world.
A bronze owl on a rooftop befriends a bat in a belfry room under a bright moon. The bat offers to guide the owl toward the earth for cheese but asks for payment, presenting a peculiar note. The scene blends fantasy with playful dialogue about promises and flights.
The bronze owl trades his spectacles with a bat and journeys to earth to locate a crow’s cheese while a restaurant owl commends the theft and plots to oust the bat from the belfry. A council of owls at The Owl prepares a nighttime raid with baskets of provisions as dawn approaches.
The article describes doll clothing in lawn, organdie, and silk with lace trims, ruffles, and floral patterns. It covers hats made to match, plain linen morning frocks with round hats, and party dresses in net, tulle, and silk muslins with colored underslips and sashes. It also includes coats in pique and lawn with lace yokes and pearl-button detailing. A separate tale from Stone Shirt recounts doves, mice, a rattlesnake, and a moral punishment sequence for the daughters.
A son of Sikor is haunted by a ghost warning of Stone Shirt’s crimes and vows to punish him with help from animals and nations. He has his grandmother cut him in two, creating twin brothers who summon aid for a grand alliance against Stone Shirt.
The article chronicles Franz Joseph Haydn born in Rohrau in 1732 and tracing his rise from a humble upbringing to fame. It notes his early musical scribbling, Vienna church school training, and his output of 120 symphonies and major works like Creation and The Seasons.
A wide riddle lists countries by clues such as cold climate goat hide and eggs fried. Each line hints at a country, with options including Chili, Morocco, Lapland, Greece, China, Finland, India, Turkey, Wales, Barbary, Denmark, and Switzerland. The puzzle asks to guess the correct country matching all clues.
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