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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1959
Page
14
Two sailors perch on a twelve foot rope scaffold over water in a Norfolk harbor. As tides rise fourteen inches per hour, the men discuss a girl while a half hour passes, asking when their feet will get wet.
A collage of word game prompts and arithmetic queries mixes fragments about chain letter puzzles, a baking cake problem, and a biblical question. It presents quotes, distorted strings, and misformatted lines, offering no coherent single news item or clear event to summarize.
Readers are invited to locate ten hidden rabbits within a forest scene on tracing paper then color the picture with pencils or crayons. The bunnies blend into the scenery, offering a time consuming visual puzzle that rewards careful observation.
A quirky brain teaser asks what percentage of this and that is this and that and half of this and that. The text also includes a jumbled phrase 1099 aed Ay puw peipuny eup iaeasny, adding playful confusion to the puzzle.
A verse puzzle from a puzzlist weaves arithmetic with age riddles. It presents a riddle about cube roots and ages, including a couple married for seventy years and clues about their ages ten years ago, asking to determine the wife’s current age. The wording is playful and coded in old timey style.
A playful conspiracy among friends suggests a drinking-round trick. Everyone places right hands palm up on a table, and at three the last to slap down is stuck with the check. The conspirators lift hands to pockets while the victim alone slaps, making him pay. He may then forward the prank to others.
The fragment presents multiple people with relative strengths and ages, asking to identify who is Potter and who is Francis, from clues linking Smith Potter O Toole Louis Frank Herbert Charles Martha Francis Joseph Jeanne and others. The garbled tail and misrendered text obscure full solution.
Four runners Curry Surrey Burrey and Beegle raced a mile on a quarter mile oval at a California track meet. Using clues Murray beats Burrey but not Surrey. The leader after lap one was behind Beegle. Beegle passed Surrey at lap three start and stayed ahead. Determine final finish order.
The article describes a maze puzzle with hurdles arranged in groups of three. A runner must pass all three if he passes any from a group, and traversed channels cannot be reused. Completion may skip hurdler groups entirely. It also presents a tongue twister drill: recite a rapid version of the line about a canner and his granny, emphasizing speed.
A full grown, four footed cat family beast is described as 8 to 10 feet long and up to 500 pounds. Its distinctive hairline places it among 41 cat relatives. The item explains a dot-to-dot diagram sequence to reveal the outline, then instructs to color the drawing.
A reader lists disguised phrasings such as a placating hint about time worn phrases and asks how many cliches are recognized. The sample items render familiar sayings into unusual wordings like a finger in the pie and a plague of odd metaphors.
Puzzle text explores extracting shorter words from a four letter or longer word. It presents method to copy letters in spaces and form new words by trial and error. It includes sample strings S19MSUY 8/QI8Od OMO1B GeI Us Pus ApUBBIO tesa with answers provided.
A nighttime scene features a smiling bear and a girl. The prompt asks to connect dots from 1 to 2 to 3 and so on to fill in the missing element. After tracing the line, color the illustration with pencils or crayons to reveal the completed picture.
A compact brain-teaser crossword from a historical page listing biblical clues across multiple numbers with hints on sows reap psalms and city departures. It includes entries like Galatians 6:7, Luke 3:1, Revelation 22:3, and many cross-referenced terms, with varied word lengths and archaic terms.
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