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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1961
Page
13
A series of Christmas party tricks is explained including tying wrists with a handkerchief and a rope escape illusion. The text then presents a humorous old riddle about ages when two people married and ends with a naval supply house question about chaining three anchor chains from ships of 10 000, 15 000, and 30 000 tons linked together.
Fragmentary OCR text with unclear wording and no identifiable people or events. Reading is insufficient to determine a coherent news item or assign concrete entities.
A magazine puzzle narrates the Jones family visits three houses in a maze to find their perfect home. Readers trace the path from house 1 to house 3 then back to the start and imagine phoning Daddy at work once the right house is found.
A cook used a rule of 15 minutes per roast plus 15 minutes per pound for three roasts. The total cooking time was eight hours. The largest roast weighed one and a half times the smallest, with all weights as whole pounds. Determine each roast’s weight.
A satirical piece extols an empty gift box as the ideal present for the man who has everything. It notes the box is cube shaped with star patterns on sides and highlights the convenience of not choosing color size or duplicate items. The item is shown alongside four assembly patterns and decoration details.
A humorous scene features Santa with a bandage on his nose reacting to a request from a little old lady for a Christmas pet. The narrative invites readers to judge the rest as lines are added in a playful puzzle format amid a table top mystery tease.
A playful numeric crossword uses digits only. Each square holds a single digit as clues reference hidden phrases from Christmas verse and history. Answers require cross-checking to work both across and down, with careful handling of names and dates for a coherent puzzle grid.
A reprint of Millard Hopper's guide offers practical pointers beyond luck. The article highlights a long play-by-play example with labeled moves and comments, showing common traps, openings, and counterplays. Hopper identifies Edinburgh as a weak opening and demonstrates a sequence where White gains advantage through strategic shots.
A dated puzzle page by Eugene Sheffer features cross-shaped match tricks, Bible clue answers, and a commercial joke about neighbors, dogs, and a riddle involving a triangle, a square, and coin counters. It includes a long list of clues, wordplay, and an illustrated magic trick.
A playful puzzle asks for a year ahead in the not too distant future. If you divide the year by two, then by three, then by two again, and reverse the digits of the final result, you get 13. The garbled phrase “TOOT 208k OUT semeny” hints at the obscured OCR source but the challenge remains identifying the year.
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