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Newspaper

Odessa American

Location

Odessa, Texas, United States of America

Date

Jul 15, 2008

Page

7

Dear Abby advice on bathroom breaks sparks reader debate

In a readers’ mailbag style column, inquiries about sharing page space with puzzles prompt Abby to suggest playful tactics for preserving reading time. The notes from DESPERATE IN DURANGO and NOT CHATTY describe conflicts over morning routines and salon chatter.

Abby Durango Desperate Kimberly Oliver

Daily Horoscope: Astrology Guide for Aries to Pisces

A broad daily forecast covers Aries through Pisces with advice on relationships, work, and well being. It urges changes in routines, exercise and diet emphasis, and hints at possible meetings or new hobbies, while noting caution on finances and tone for each sign.

ARIES Taurus Gemini

Bridge hand plays for game after precise trump timing

A bridge example discusses counted tricks and how declarer must play carefully. After a trump lead and a limited set of fast tricks, the declarer should win the first trick in hand, ruff clubs, cash high trumps, and reenter to ruff the last club, ensuring the remaining trumps are drawn in sequence.

North South West Declarer

Crossword clues jumble yields a quirky puzzle play

A crossword puzzle prompt presents numerous across and down clues with mixed phrasing and typos. Entries include runs to exercise, moolah, meadow, and other common terms, plus garbled segments and stray letters, forming a dense but readable puzzle-style word list.

Meadow

Proof of virginity and premarital sex questions

A reader asks if an intact hymen proves virginity. The adviser explains the hymen can tear from athletic activity or tampons and that a broken hymen does not prove prior sex. a husband-to-be may not consider it evidence of sexual history.

Advocate Oliver

Jumble Phrase Leads to Traffic Court Pun

Puzzle answer hints at a traffic court joke with the phrase For a traffic court judge its always a fine day.

This Day In History Highlights From July Fifteenth

On this date in history several events are noted including Nixon's 1971 plan to visit China and Rembrandt's 1606 birth. Other items mark Manitoba joining confederation and battles in World War I. Obituaries include Gianni Versace in 1997 and Tex Schramm in later years.

Nixon People’s Republic of China Rembrandt Leiden Netherlands Georgia Manitoba Confederation Marne Truman Philadelphia Eisenhower Lebanon Camille Chamoun Barry M. Goldwater Arizona San Francisco Gianni Versace Miami Andrew Phillip Cunanan Russia Yekaterinburg Tex Schramm Dallas Cowboys America Dallas

Cryptoquip Solver Clue and Year From King Features

The Cryptoquip puzzle explains a substitution cipher with one letter mapping to another. It notes typical clues from single letters and short words and mentions 2007 King Features Syndicate Inc as the syndicate credit.

King Features Syndicate Inc

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