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Newspaper

Middletown Journal

Location

Middletown, Ohio, United States of America

Date

May 27, 1958

Page

12

Dot Pattern Puzzle Draw Lines and Color

A diagram puzzle guides drawing lines between numbered dots starting at 1 and visiting 2 8 4 and so on until all numbers are used. After connecting the sequence, apply colors to reveal the hidden dot picture.

Simply Murder Ten Second Quiz Riddle

A man named Johnson confesses to killing Brown to a policeman claiming revenge as motive. Detectives find a 30 year acquaintance but no life details, yet Johnson is freed on weapons charges. The mystery asks why he faced no charge beyond carrying a weapon despite the murder and motive.

Johnson Brown

Focus on the Invisible as Man Probes Frontiers of the Universe

The article explains that the naked eye can discern only five to six thousand stars of the first six magnitudes, while photographers and telescopes reveal far more. Photographic plates capture faint galaxies billions of light years away, with images reaching the twentieth magnitude and suggesting over a billion stars. estimates place at least thirty billion stars in the heavens, with no stars beyond the twenty sixth magnitude. A telescope view in Hercules shows a star cluster containing more stars than visible in all the sky to the naked eye.

Hercules

Abdul Hamid Aims to Buy Arabian Stallion Tale

Abdul Hamid seeks a valuable stallion from Sheik Ali and plans to pay up to 1000 gold pieces. To avoid revealing the amount, he divides the money into ten bags so any amount from 1 to 1000 can be paid without opening a bag.

Abdul Hamid Sheik Ali Abdul Ali

Squaring Figures Tests the Wits

A crossword style puzzle uses digits in each square to form across and down answers. Clues reference speakers, 1958 figures, primes, fills, nouns, and wordplay with letter changes and hidden talents. The puzzle includes items about cataracts, card games, banana shapes, and repair shop phrases.

Herbert Hoover Winston Churchill Eleanor Roosevelt Nile River

Puzzle of Arranging Digits to Sum to One Hundred

A page fragment presents a puzzle using the digits 1 to 0 to form a sum of 100 with every digit used once. It notes at least two solution methods and asks for another arrangement. The text includes garbled remnants and stray codes alongside the puzzle prompt.

Mystery Library Puzzle Ends with Glamor Girl Phone Number

Fragments from an Old World library cover form two words when restored by adding missing lines. The tale centers on Gussie Glamour and a telephone number whose four digits sum to 24. The first digit is three times the third. the second is two less than the fourth, which is one more than twice the third.

Gussie

Tires and car ages puzzle from a 1920s era paper

A riddle asks about a car and its tires where the car is twice as old as the tires when the car was as old as the tires are today. Later, when the tires are as old as the car is now, the combined ages equal two and a quarter years, prompting a question about whether the area is older than the car today.

Hidden birds in plain sight puzzle lines

A quiz of covert bird names hidden in five sentences. Soldiers spy kerchief sea chef arrowroot Iain Shaw and a garbled MVH line hint at Usman Tremery hidden birds within each line.

John Iain Shaw Usman

Find a Way Through Desert Guide to the Outpost

A guide maps the route to an outpost marked 2, with rules against retracing steps and a requirement to follow designated paths. The challenge asks how quickly one can locate the paths and reach the destination.

Hidden Bunnies Clock Stopper Puzzle Prompt

A riddle asks if a watch stops for five minutes every quarter hour how long until the minute hand returns to 12. The puzzle phrase implies a trick timing answer within one minute.

Sempweayy-Ajueaes Ul Tsemeuy

Bible crossword exercise from old quiz book

A scanned page presents a Bible themed crossword with clues spanning Genesis to Revelation. It includes ancient figures, places, doctrines, and terms aligned to chapter and verse references, plus a vertical word puzzle and scattered bibliographic notes.

What device with eight feathers and corks inspired early transport

A puzzle asks to identify a device made from eight feathers two corks whale bone cord and a stick. Its function relates to one of modern transportation means, evoking inventors Jobert and Penaud. The present-day counterpart is implied but not named in the fragment.

H. C. Kaufman Jobert Penaud

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