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Newspaper
Quappelle Progress
Location
Quappelle, Saskatchewan, Canada
Date
Jun 14, 1889
Page
3
A cryptic garbled text references a Prevert-like number puzzle and mentions various birds including a red bike cue and a singing bird. It lists items such as a US American singing bird and a Brazilian bird with an umbrella-like feather arrangement, plus a web-footed marine species. The passage also touches on a geometrical pursuit and a purgatory theme amid fragmented notes.
A landowner reserves one fourth for himself and plans to split the remainder into four equal, similarly shaped shares among his four kin. The puzzle asks how to divide to maintain equal portions and common shape. The passage also includes varied snippets about decapitations, wood, cables, and lace, reflecting a mixed-page collage of notes and headlines.
Fragmentary report mentions English and Italian examples such as a Ser Towes structure with a stone roof and 100 columns, a cantilever bridge over a Niagara-like waterway, and the Bridge of Sighs at Venice, referencing construction details and transport of condemned individuals.
A J. Mrindle of Mattawa Ontario writes he suffered headache bad blood and loss of appetite, tried various medicines without success, then used Lardoes Blood Bitters and found relief in ten days.
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