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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1966
Page
12
Long-time star Millard Hopper presents a solution to a chessboard puzzle. The White side aims to move and win in four moves, with the diagram guiding each step after adding missing figure and coloring the scene.
A storekeeper Jones finds five dollars which his wife uses to pay a tailor, rent, and debts, only to discover the bill is counterfeit after bank deposit. The chain shows how the same bill circulated to landlord and bookkeeper before returning to Jones.
A fragmentary school puzzle item presents questions about unit conversions and a coded instruction. It lists items like ounces per quart and a four square number 41, plus references to states beginning with H and M and a decode FC. The readable text hints at an answer key or workbook caption rather than a full narrative.
A fragmented newspaper item recalls poet and critic Joyce Kilmer born in New Jersey in 1886. It notes his education at Rutgers and Columbia, fame as a poet and critic before World War I, and his death in France in 1918 during an attack on an enemy machine gun position. The piece weaves in quiz-like clues and crosswords referencing Kilmer and other literary figures.
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