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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1975
Page
8
A duplicate or garbled bridge hand snippet shows North dealer and North-South vulnerable with a hand reading A 9 5 3 for North, followed by unclear notation A S2 All Qdi4, indicating an incomplete bid or play record.
A bridge deal illustrates deceptive play as South finesses hearts after a club lead. West holds king of clubs. East signals with clubs. South misreads East’s king, goes down one. East defends six spades with precise club return, leaving South unaware Hast also has the king.
A May 31 1975 Muscatine Journal Saturday crossword by Thomas Joseph is printed with entries like Across clues and a discussion of a bridge hand. The column mixes puzzle content with a narrative on declarer play, noting the king and ace signals and a strategic club return. The text references Kures Syndicate Inc and a parking place concept for heart loss.
A jumble of crossword like clues includes Denis 1 Lost one's foothold 2 Was furigut 4 Stone pillar 5 Roman poe 6 Strip of land 8 Used a cash register 12 wds 1 $0 Football plays 2 wds 32 Drench 34 Governing 5 Cookin direction 36 Squirrel monkey 37 Likewise if Fall into sin 9 Exploit ster DHOWN t Strive wah switch 2 Wrage 3 lelylike micine animal vowels 1 Pastries of England 4 Biblical mountain Mecentric 7 Californie city 10 Helter skelter thyph wad LW Invalid 12 Infamous marquis Yesterday 16 Arum plant Wwoff ¢Holf tern 21 Kind of party 22 Donat 23 Wide street 24 13 H Lawrence Lovers 26 Jeopardy 28 Award among the Goths 24 Composure 1 Religious ceremony 33 G and 35 Joyless
The excerpt describes a cipher puzzle where letters substitute for others with a given key. It includes example ciphertext PQJBJ CBd PQBJd PMEJU 21 and a Tolstoy quote from 1975. The text explains the decryption approach and references yesterday's quote about happiness and labor.
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