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Newspaper
Gladewater Mirror
Location
Gladewater, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1968
Page
11
The note outlines a round trip for Chief Rain the Explorer from a starting point to an Indian village at point 1 then a downstream canoe trip to point 2 and a visit to friendly settlers at point 3 before returning. Paths shown by arrows indicate entrance and exit routes and the chief plans no shortcuts, only a meandering journey.
A puzzle page invites readers to spot errors in diagrammed nursery rhymes. Example shows a cow leaping instead of a dog in Hey Diddle Diddle. Readers are told to identify flaws, with six or more correct answers earning a good score.
A student argued a watermelon could be thrown to reverse its course without bouncing or hitting any object. The discussion touched on Australian boomerangs and the idea of a watermelon's altered trajectory, inviting skeptical questions about the proposed method.
A three digit number has digits summing to 16 and the difference between the number and its reverse is 396. Solving yields the original number as 962. The digits add to 9 6 2 totaling 17, which conflicts. Recheck shows the valid solution is 964 with sum 19, also conflicting.
Longtime checker champion Millard Hopper explains a four move win for White moving up the board. The article presents a puzzle and a solution, challenging readers to solve without peeking at the clock.
The prompt asks for the four letter word plural that finishes Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.'s quote about people who make and influence others, likened to boys placing copper on railroad tracks. The precise missing word is not provided in readable form here.
The prompt quizzes continents for major peaks and orders them by height. Kilimanjaro Africa, Aconcagua South America, Mount McKinley North America, Mount Elbrus Europe, Mount Kosciuszko Australia. The challenge then asks to rank these peaks from highest to lowest.
Richard Henry Dana Jr interrupted Harvard studies to sail from Boston on the brig Pilgrim to California. His memoir Two Years Before the Mast inspired maritime reforms. Dana, admitted to the bar in 1840, became a noted sailor's lawyer and nautical authority, writing The Seaman's Friend. He died in 1882 at 67.
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