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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1958
Page
23
A vintage teaser page offers three matchstick puzzles using twenty, seventeen, and sixteen matches to form evolving sets of small squares. Readers are asked to rearrange matches to create specific patterns and to solve wordplay and palindromic challenges transforming letter groups into two palindromes.
A reader is challenged to locate a five pointed star with five equal sides. The page notes the symbol’s associations with health and good fortune and promises an answer elsewhere on the page.
A wits puzzle lists Across and Down clues using digits per square. It asks about nuts eaters a mile up from a hole and other wordplay about numbers, idioms, and historical hints as a test of crossword style reasoning.
A color sensing trick explained where a person hides a crayon, rubs it with the index nail to transfer a color speck, then quickly looks at the nail to deduce the color. The method relies on a small amount of pigment clinging to the nail during a glance.
Several objects and figures appear in the diagram above though some will disappear. Shade spaces according to color indicators: O orange Y yellow B blue V violet P pink. If pink is unavailable use red lightly. Try to guess what is shown before starting.
A playful rule set for the annual toboggan run requires choosing a single clear descent from the hill top to the finish line without crossing another participant’s trail. A designated twisting route exists leftward along the course. speed and precision determine eligibility while avoiding disqualification by taking an alternative path.
Four boys John Henry Joe and Bill race the six o clock STAR train. Each misreads his clock by five or ten minutes and leaves accordingly to miss or catch the train. Who misses the train remains to be solved.
A puzzle asks readers to connect numbered dots from 1 through 16 to reveal a hidden diagram. Clues mention two bears searching high and low for the missing image and suggest drawing straight lines between consecutive dots. The text ends with a garbled note about women and last year’s dress.
Rief reports select new books for home craftsmen and collectors chosen by Clark Kinnaird. Smith & Wesson Revolvers by John E Parsons chronicles American metallic cartridge revolvers. Be Your Own Nurseryman explains garden plots for ornament and profit with charts and equipment plans. The Venison Cook Book gathers frontier venison recipes and serving suggestions.
The text explains a word puzzle where letters are filled into blanks to form short words, with vertical rows sharing the same letter. It notes you can deduce the key word without completing all smaller words and encourages using smaller words to reveal the larger terms.
Dated birthday party favors are quick to assemble at home using a square sheet of any size. Fold and cut as diagram suggests, add a narrow handle strip, secure with tape or fasteners, decorate with stars or seals, and include place-setting names on a card or handle.
A chaotic puzzle page listing biblical clues and scattered word fragments across Old and New Testament themes. The page mixes question numbers with partial definitions, unrelated notes, and a newspaper logo line, resembling a syndicated puzzle column.
Four moves decide the outcome as White starts and captures occur. The text mixes scattered names and fragments, but implies a short contest where White advances and wins by four moves over Black.
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