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Newspaper
Roswell Daily Record
Location
Roswell, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1941
Page
18
Puzzle text outlines converting RETREAT to ADVANCE by five letter moves including dropping, swapping, and rearranging to form words meaning handled made recorded inclosed in a HE object of this puzzle is to rearrange numbered besls to form a number divisible by seven. It invites a solution and mentions a long furlough.
The text reflects on how nicknames like Red or Skinny help recall a person, even when the right name is John Smith. It notes Huey Long as the Kingfish, illustrating how familiar tags carry historical memory.
The page presents a dense list of crossword style clues across many topics. It includes geography, history, science, literature, and wordplay prompts with numbers and partial phrases, suggesting a newspaper puzzle or quiz feature.
A list of 12 clues linking famous monikers to figures or traits with scoring notes. Each line hints at a nickname or description and its intended famous person, aiming to identify or match the correct pairings.
A list of historical boxing nicknames and references including The Great Emancipator as a nod to the 16th president, The Flying Finn not related to Mickey, Wild Bull of the Pampas defeated by Dempsey, Old Hickory’s Florida fights, America’s Sweet Heart Curblocks, and The Galloping Ghost tied to a football powerhouse.
A lineup of notable monikers includes Wizard of Menlo Park for Edison, The Great Commoner for a famed orator, Buffalo Bill as an Indian fighter, The Iron Chancellor as a pre-Nazi leader, The Lone Eagle who crossed the Atlantic, The Maid of Orleans a French heroine, and The Little Corporal referring to Napoleon after his Waterloo.
Puzzles readers, a 50 year old cryptarithm type blends letters and digits. The piece explains MONEY as a cryptarithm with digits substitutes, shows method using a chart to cross off impossible values, and notes S and M cannot be zero as they begin SEND and MORE. An example division puzzle BLC MICTK (SAA MCC) is solved at page bottom.
Puzzle describes four illustrated objects and uses initial letters from two names plus final letters from the other two to spell a single answer. The solution requires identifying the items, taking their initials and terminal letters as indicated to form one word. The clue notes value in holding one item at arm's length.
A solitaire word puzzle presents ten card names mapping to a ten letter set. Each five letter group forms a five letter word. Substitution yields a sentence using ace high challenge. The text notes the clever feat and invites deciphering.
Step by step instructions describe mounting a drawing on heavy paper then folding along dotted lines. By sliding the right hand away you reveal the upper half of the drawing and a rabbit appears in the hat. reversing the action makes the rabbit disappear.
A society editor proposes a puzzle about Joan and Peggy sisters. Peggy will be 22 next May and Joan 23 next June, each birthday on the fifteenth. Determine how much older one sister is than the other given exact birthdays.
A playful puzzle describes removing letters from a building with stalls to yield a furniture item, then a book’s content, and finally a beverage. It invites readers to test the sequence and reveals a simple linguistic chain.
A dog weighs X pounds. A hare weighs X divided by three less than the dog, and a pig weighs 40 pounds more than the combined weight of hare and dog. Solve: hare = D minus one third of D equals two thirds D. Combined hare and dog = D + two thirds D = five thirds D. Pig = five thirds D plus 40. The problem asks how much the dog weighs, which is the variable D in pounds.
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