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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1954
Page
4
A fragmented puzzle style item asks who is missing in a dot to dot drawing from 1 to 32 and suggests coloring afterward. It ponders a riddle about aging weight and royal crowns with stray numeric hints and garbled phrases.
A common puzzle asks how much a steel band around the Earth would lengthen if lifted one foot above the surface. With circumference approx 25 000 miles, raising the band by one foot adds a small amount equal to 2 pi times the altitude, yielding about 6.28 feet. The answer surprises many.
A puzzle poem features missing-letter words with identical last three letters and varying first letters. Pamela, unflustered, encounters a grouchy customer, a faulty meal, and a demand to see the manager. The dialogue ends with Pamela directing the exit.
A fragmented OCR shows a riddle filled page with enumerated clues about time, numbers, letters, and history. Questions reference Panama Canal timing, Lincoln age, bigamy penalties, book pages, tax refunds, clock hands, and roman numerals, all posed as wordplay and multiple choice style prompts.
A historical newspaper puzzle titled Knight’s Tour appears with a dense grid of coded segments including TDL ETSL and SEAT, along with sequences like 8-8 L-L and 96 8 08-E. Researchers note potential chess motif references and language from early 20th century puzzle columns.
The reader is asked to trace a knight's tour on a diagram touching each square once starting at the nose arrow and ending at the other arrow. It notes a knight move involves one square in one direction plus one square perpendicular and prompts trying with tracing paper. It also includes a logic prompt about inches versus feet and a rapid repetition task.
Simple sunshades for garden or beach wear described as improvised from stiff paper or thin cardboard. No 1 eyeshade requires head sizing with string and cutting pattern from heavy paper. No 2 poke bonnet uses rectangular cardboard or thick paper.
A peculiar trick uses command words to immobilize a person. The victim is invited to sit on a door, told he cannot rise until the performer allows. He scoffs, but when he attempts to stand, the helper rises as well, leaving the target unable to win.
Inspector Ferrer notes specific ammo boxes and counts to isolate the suspect who kept a box of ammunition. Jameson, Johnson, Thompson, and Harrison have listed boxes and cartridges with opened, unopened, and empty shells checked. The methodical tally aims to identify the one responsible for the ammunition.
Long time open checker champ touts constant practice with exercises such as this turn moving up the board. White uses a strategy to counter Black bait and aims to win in four moves. A classroom test compares correct word associations as a lighthearted memory exercise conducted by a leader.
Four matchsticks and five tumblers form a bridge over four tumblers with the fifth supporting on top. Only one match may touch any tumbler. Provide the solution or refer to the page solution, then organize guests into teams and time the performers for speed.
A puzzle prompt lists arithmetical deductions to find missing digits in a multiplication problem. It shows many garbled fragments and partial words, including names and cryptic sequences, challenging the reader to determine the replaced Xs and complete the calculation.
Crossword style puzzle clues weave biblical references across horizontal and vertical entries. Readers solve for cities, animals, vessels, and doctrinal terms drawn from scripture, with answers ranging from ancient sites to Greek letters and heraldic items.
A man states two thirds of his brother’s age equals five twelfths of his own, and he is nine years older. Let the brothers be ages B and b with B beyond. Solve B = b + nine years and two thirds b = five twelfths B. Substituting gives 24b = 55B and B = b + 9. Solving yields b = 27 and B = 36. The ages are 36 and 27.
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