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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1946
Page
3
A satirical look at scarce harmony and rising demand versus supply, lampoons inflation of words and braces social shortages. References to a 50 year old New York Telephone, a Long Island doctor biking for calls, and a seagull cake craving underscore shortages and stubbornness in postwar life.
A quirky tribute lists names and brief jests about figures like Harriet Sue a 1987 Miss Yonkers runner up and Artemus G. Bilge a business man. It playfully awards fictitious degrees and public personas while lampooning inquiries and committees with lighthearted barbed humor.
A list of trivia questions covering Canadian provinces and territories Rock of Gibraltar symbolism Calenda Roman name for a calendar state department original name What animal’s testimony is accepted in court Does an ostrich hide head in sand The bird in Bryant poem Robert of Lincoln refutes the line Bullets fired from a moving plane drift due to relative motion and gravity
The list presents eight clues spanning geography, geology, time, government, animals, appetites, birds, and ballistics. It notes soft limestone, the first day of the month, the department of foreign affairs, the bloodhound, a worm-eating behavior, the bobolink, and a physics explanation of bullet spin and wind effects.
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