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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1958
Page
8
A reader note describes a party trick with a cork in a bottle. If you blow gently the cork slides in smoothly, while a big puff backs it out due to pressure. The piece warns against overblowing and explains the safe approach.
A vintage puzzle describes ten counters forming three lines of four and the trick to remove one counter while preserving the lines by moving another. It includes a jokey artist scene with four men and asks to determine the original poses and provide the next two numbers in several sequences.
A puzzle asks for numbers of sheep and geese given total legs 74 when sheep have two legs and geese four. If 58 legs counted earlier and later totals imply a linear relation, solve for counts of each animal. The text also lists various riddles about forms of transportation linked to famous tales and journeys.
Puzzle text presents a large Bible focused crossword with numerous horizontal and vertical clues. It includes references to biblical figures, places, and terms across multiple books, with a note about James and land value as a word problem. The item appears as a syndicated crossword page fragment.
A readable portion describes a maze game where a robber is loose and you must start at a marked arrow, navigate to the capture scene without crossing your own path, and reach a goal indicated by a top right arrow. The text mixes rhyming language and a logic puzzle with names and positions.
A quirky puzzle item describes drawing a figure by tracing dots starting at dot 1 and continuing through 2 3 4 in order. It also gives a cryptogram puzzle with a sage saying and a misprinted coded quote to decipher.
A review list selected by Clark Kinnaird covers Shop Tools: Care and Repair by De Witt Hunt detailing tool use and repair. It notes Phoenix Books from University of Chicago Press including Man the Tool-Maker by Kenneth P. Oakley. Also mentioned is Legal Aspects of Photography by Robert Veit Sherwin with guidance on libel copyright privacy laws.
A dated puzzle page invites readers to identify two North American lakes from skeletal diagrams. The task asks to fill blank spaces with letters found in sight and then form horizontal words using cross-letter clues. Answers are provided beneath but readers are warned not to peek.
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