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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1968
Page
10
The Muscatine Journal features a bridge bidding puzzle with questions on opening bids responses and jump-shift strategies, highlighting how to handle spade and diamond sequences and when to advance to notrump or game. It explains point counts and partner signaling to guide decisions.
Fragmented crossword style clues mix obscure terms and partial answers. The list includes references to geographics, objects, and titles with scattered numeral hints, showing typical puzzle construction rather than a news item.
A scrambled list of numbered word clues and partial phrases including Pale Pert brown singing wager tiny rivulet lamp Yemeni African unmask desert venture struggle diming for breath Tog Defrauc Employ strong as the moon Bunyan melody classify sticky substance sack.
The page shows a cryptogram puzzle with instructions on letter substitution. It notes each day’s code differs and hints rely on word length and formation. Included is a sample solution line and a quoted previous quote about eyes announcing love.
A concise listing shows the station’s evening lineup with Wild West at 6:50, Gomer Pyle at 7:30, a movie at 8, News at 10, and Theatre at 10:30. The fragment reflects a classic broadcast schedule and programs tied to a local station.
The listing presents a 1968 broadcast grid with programs and times from 8:30 a.m. to 10:20 p.m. including Space Ghosts Moby Dick Superman Lone Ranger Road Runner and later specials like University Report Final Centennial Address Golf Classic and Death Valley. It also notes The Joe Pyne Show Mannix Petticoat Junction Jackie Gleason and Three Sons with Hogan's Heroes among others.
A textured listing shows broadcast segments from 12:30 PM to 1:30 AM including World of Sports Citrus Open Girls Basketball Championship Wrestling and News. features such as Newlywed Game Lawrence Welk Gotterdammerung and McHale's Navy appear among varied program blocks and a Bible Course closing late night.
The listing outlines a packed Sunday lineup with programs from 12:30 pm to 11:00 pm including Meet the Press Frontiers of Freedom and a suite of classics such as Lassie Gentle Ben Ed Sullivan and Smothers Brothers Mission Impossible and Bonanza along with sports and news blocks.
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