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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1954
Page
6
A magician demonstrates shuffling a full 52 card deck and dealing a face card from the top. If the top card is a five, seven more cards are dealt to match the difference between the value five and twelve, illustrating a simple counting sequence. Also instructions appear for building a rustic bench seat from slab wood with simple joinery and finishing tips.
A card trick explains dealing to a total of 12 per heap and using a preset formula. Name a number such as 41, lift first cards from each heap, sum to that target, then compute by counting heaps, subtracting four, multiplying by 13, and adding leftover cards to reach the bottom cards total. The method relies on mental arithmetic.
A gear has a regular arrangement where the 7th tooth sits directly opposite the 23rd tooth. Determine total teeth without a diagram. Using opposite tooth pairs, the distance around is half the circumference between opposite teeth, giving n as twice the difference plus two, yielding 46 teeth.
Warm colors are used to create layered wax art in a muffin tin. Fill cups with different crayons, melt them in hot water, apply to a fabric or canvas, and let each layer harden before adding the next. Supervise young children and use asbestos pads to protect surfaces.
Three tree names appear when splitting adjacent words: Inez plus refreshed yields pine. Tom plus Otto yields to tt o a knife in return for a kite yields oak. popular Charlotte yields maple and birch in sequence.
Egg Rolling Made Easy adapts the outdoor pastime to indoors. Each contestant uses a 6 inch by 4 inch paper egg with a 6 foot string tied to a fixed object. On go, eggs roll to the object and back to the holder, with the fastest returning egg winning and a prize suggested.
Two stubborn men X and X dine in a restaurant when horseradish makes them cry. One man laments his grandfather hanged, while the other hesitates to reveal his reason as a cryptic quote hints at missing vowels.
A puzzle presents numbers 1 through 16 arranged in sixteen rings so every circle of four numbers sums to 34. One sample solution is shown and the reader is asked how quickly they can arrange the numbers to meet the condition. The page also features a tongue twister about six sisters and Susie Smith sorting sooty sacks.
A playful instruction puzzle notes a dot-by-dot connection from dot 1 to dot 34. Readers are guided to color the resulting drawing with colored pencils or crayons for completion and visual result.
A mixed puzzle listing multiple biblical clues and cross references with entries across and down. It includes numbers, names like Joab, Ishmael, Abram, and Solomon, plus atmospheric hints about vessels, plants, animals, and places. The page resembles a panoramic word game feature from Horizont magazine.
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