Automobile dealer’s puzzling profit puzzle
A dealer buys a car for nine hundred dollars, sells for ninety, buys back for eight hundred, then resells for one thousand. Net profit equals two hundred dollars after accounting for all transactions.
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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1939
Page
3
Crossword Puzzle Clues Across and Down Mixed Gibberish
Puzzle lists numerous cryptic clues and misspelled phrases for an across and down crossword. The readable items reference caliphs ties, battle names, abbreviations, and various domains, but the OCR result is heavily garbled with many errors and mis-spellings.
Answer to Yesterday's Twizzler
A reader question clarifies pricing math from Capsright John F. Dille Co explaining that a pound and one ninth, not one tenth, would be required to complete the purchase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Capsright
John F. Dille
Grasshoppers Grow Bold Defying Fire in California
Oroville Cal State Forest Ranger Miles H Young notes invading grasshoppers in California have grown large enough to hop over fire lines. He says these pests now resist control methods that once corralled them, continuing their damaging work despite fires.
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Cal
State Forest
Miles H. Young
California
Lightning strike knocks brick from chimney in Ashtabula
A freak lightning bolt during a storm struck a house in Ashtabula, peeling off the outer brick layer of a three foot chimney while leaving the chimney standing.
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