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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1950
Page
11
Readers are invited to solve a zig zag word maze by Raymond Masters and Reuben DeLong starting with shaded letters forming “All boys of” and continuing to a twelve word sentence about juvenile interests. The piece also presents a math timing riddle about a hill and bus run.
A guest recalls waking at E Nigma's house to a puzzling time clue. The host says take half a third and a fourth of the hour just struck, with total one hour more. The guest solves it quickly and identifies the hour.
A garbled excerpt catalogs numerous sayings about time from various authors. It lists lines from Young, Proverb, Pericles, Paine, Shakespeare, Longfellow, Seneca, Pliny, Disraeli, Goethe, Dryden, Byron, Allen, La Bruyere, and Pitiacus, interspersed with unreadable OCR text and stray letter strings.
A jokey feature lists familiar sayings and asks quick questions about common clichés. It hints at a puzzle involving scissors and a figure-jig by Jessie Smith, promising a square formed from cut segments with hidden solutions elsewhere on the page.
Two partners linked for a year or more on improving combustion engine ignition filed for a patent but separated due to family reasons. Separately, they were each approached with the same proposal by a promoter offering two payment plans.
A puzzle item presents a criss cross fill in by Mrs. N C Shields with nuts and candy related terms. The themed puzzle lists 12 to 23 letter entries such as Almond Creams Chocolate Covered Nuts Chocolate Covered Raisins and Peanut Taffy. A riddle asks why a cat's tail is like a long journey and how a leopard changes spots.
The item describes tongue twisters used as stage tests with lines about grey geese in green grass and the phrase seething sea ceasing and sufficing. It ends by noting Shakespeare wrote of the same thing in a substitution cryptogram for solving.
Complex puzzle from Eugene Sheffer asks about biblical figures places and verses. It lists questions on Israel Tirzah Ramah Japheth Sampson and more with references to 1 Kings Joshua Chronicles Job Matthew Ezra and Luke. The rake of clues includes archaic spellings and a final riddle about a word that grows when full and shrinks when cut.
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