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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1950
Page
4
A fragmentary OCR item shows a radio personality named Horizonta with a panel of experts answering a long list of clues. The text includes many dictionary style entries such as Silkworm Extinct bird Woody plant and various crosswords style hints with numbers and partial labels.
The sword presented by George Washington to Thomas Johnson, Maryland’s first governor, and a collection of Johnson’s tableware depart under special arrangement with the Maryland Historical Society by Mrs. Bessy Johnson Coulehan Frey of Frostburg and New York. Frey is Johnson’s great great granddaughter. Johnson served as governor 1776 to 1777 and later as an associate justice of the U S Supreme Court. The sword was given for aid on mustering troops and supplies during the Revolution. Also reported, the Maryland Tuberculosis Association said the 1950 Christmas Seal Sale reached over one third of its $342,200 goal, with receipts at $116,105.38, up $13,526 from last year’s pace.
In a bridge hand narrated by Oswald Jacoby Generous George miscounts trumps yet still secures two heart ruffs unseen by West who doubts George’s grasp of the missing trump. West regains a trick with diamonds but George’s strategic ruffing and careful discard set up two heart tricks and eventually two clubs lost, leaving him in control and ahead.
Cincinnati reader asks if a husband wife canasta convention was proper. The column answers that privately conveyed information through meld order is improper and unethical, even in family play. The note also mentions Mr Jacobs not answering individual canasta questions and that 1949 currency paper weight totaled 3 792 tons.
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