Puzzling Snapshots Amid Oddities and Whims
Fragmented column sketches diverse oddities from music and art to jokes and ads. Names like Sir Humphrey Humphries and Randzeard’s appear beside puzzles and a cheeky classified note for a chamber maid.
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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1931
Page
5
Fragmented column sketches diverse oddities from music and art to jokes and ads. Names like Sir Humphrey Humphries and Randzeard’s appear beside puzzles and a cheeky classified note for a chamber maid.
A casual note from Augusto Bissini asks Aunt Belle to come over tomorrow night if she has company. A joking reply suggests checking the window and lights to see if they are entertaining guests. Aunt Belle agrees in a playful exchange.
A garbled OCR fragment presents a wide range of questions about ancient deities cities rivers and war eras. It includes inquiries on the creator of a certain god, a mythic founder, a Greek epic, and a Phoenician city. The piece shifts through topics rapidly with unclear spellings and scattered proper nouns.
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