Chicago Gang Murder Riddle Unfolds From Hazy Early Hours
In a Chicago October night four men argued ending in a fatal shooting. McCann led the gang and was the first found. Evans claimed Barker did it. Carter despised the murderer and is linked to the murdered man. Gates was in Milwaukee and later arrested. An innocent man was among the suspects.
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Chicago
McCann
Evans
Barker
Carter
McCann's
Gates
Milwaukee
Leap-Frog Puzzle from Eventeen Frolicsome Frogs
Twelve frogs play a strategic leap-frog puzzle across a board. The object is to remove all but one frog with each jump a frog hops over another to an empty square, retiring the jumped frog. A continuous leap counts as one jump, aiming to end with frog No 9 in its original position.
Complete Book of Annuals and Other Hobby Guides Review
Readers get a snapshot of home crafts and hobby titles selected by Clark Kinnaird. The notes cover The Complete Book of Annuals, The Complete Mercedes Story, and Handbook of Self Defense with insights on photography, auto history, and crime prevention for general readers.
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Clark Kinnaird
F. F. Rockwell
Esther Grayson
Doubleday
Rockwell
B&w
Mercedes
W. Robert Nitske
Macmillan
Daimler, Benz & Mercedes
John Martone
Greenberg
Date pits resemble pieces of coral
The text notes date pits resemble coral fragments with beads as separate bits, describing their appearance and arrangement.
Finders Keepers Jewelry: Collecting Nature’s Bits
A nostalgic note on gathering shells pebbles pods seeds and petrified wood to craft costume jewelry. Summer invites collection stored dry in a drawer with a small drill or heated needle for stringing and advice from arts shops on clasps and colors.
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Arts and Crafts
Seed inlay ear rings described in beads and cement
Watermelon or sunflower seeds threaded with beads form decorative pieces. Seeds or pebbles attach to ear ring mounts using cement to create textured jewelry.
Knowledge Numbers Puzzle from The Magic Rule
A playful clipped puzzle lists across and down clues about numbers and wordplay. It presents clues on longevity, weather, measurements, and famous names with numeric answers, forming a crossfill of digits and phrases from a historical puzzle style.
Can You See Through This Maze of Lines
The text describes a viewing challenge where lines form a maze and colors add clarity. It explains color codes for green blue red violet yellow orange brown and black and instructs pasting a colored diagram to cardboard to create a jigsaw puzzle.
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Immy
Break-Word Teasers and a Coin Vanishing Trick
A party trick uses a right hand coin hidden under a handkerchief with a confederate lifting it unseen. Readers copy letters from skeleton blocks to reveal key words, then fill blanks to form short words across horizontal and vertical rows.
Week-end Baseball Standings Reveal Close Race
In a four team league playing 15 games, Team B edges Team C by 11 wins and Team D by 2, while Team A leads Team C by 6. Let W be wins. B = C + 11. D = B − 2. A = C + 6. Solving yields C = 4, B = 15, D = 13, A = 10. losses follow from 15 games each: A 5, B 0, C 11, D 2.
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Bedan
Valentine
Portugal
Joses
Barnabas
Joab
Abishai
Asahel
Sam
Missing link puzzle uncovers animal name in scattered words
Readers solve a diagram riddle linking a felled tree to a hidden creature by drawing a line from dot 1 to dot 20. Each puzzle item hides an animal name replacing x's in a word like ape in No 1, with examples and garbled text prompting reconstruction.
Its Sum Race Hallenge a friend to a race in counting
A game describes taking turns adding numbers between 1 and 10 to reach exactly 100. Players aim to force sums at 12, 23, 34, 45, 67, 89 to block the opponent from reaching 100.
Bible Crossword Clues From a 1955 Syndicate Page
A compact list ofBiblical knowledge clues across topics from Old to New Testament. Entries include references to Leviticus John Acts Nehemiah and Judges with brief prompts like names places and terms such as Israelite diet seaport France Zedekiah and Babylonian exiles.
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Pati
SUF OY
eoUemeld
Ay Jed Sibipu
Sayyjou
OTD
Sinoy OM
JO Balwers
Emma C
MS Kean
Finders Keepers
Kirs— Flagstad
Ernest Borg
Franklin Roosevelt
Congress
N. Y. Street
Emma Cms
Kean
Sv'l Vnd
SJDP
Caemeuy
Epsom
LUNA
Lugene Sheffer
Taean
Peter
Jesus
John
France
Zedekiah
Babylon
Jerusalem
Department of France
King Features Syndicate
Gideon
Christ
Hummingbird
Bert
Mott
Oya
Mise
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