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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1948
Page
10
A word puzzle hides animal names by reversing letters across couplets. Each clue contains the animal name hidden in a reversed form, with examples including puma from Sam and upon, inviting solvers to extract more from the playful verse and map game.
Eight people travel with four couples named Black White Brown Green and wives Winifred Barbara Grace Blanche. Blanche spends one dollar, Winifred two, Barbara 50 percent more, and Grace one dollar more than Barbara. Husbands spend amounts equal to or multiples of their wives. After expenses are subtracted, the remaining capital is divided equally among the eight, yielding each share. The puzzle asks each share and the wives' surnames.
Prisoner No. 41144, a 20 year term inmate, leveraged carpenters planks nine feet eleven inches long to span the 10 foot moat and breach the outer barricade. After crossing the moat he scaled the barrier and vanished, leaving readers prompted to study the diagram for the bridge method.
Puzzle by Ab Struse explains inserting listed words into a diagram to interlock across and down. It includes word groups from three to twelve letters such as net pen via bell grid hear mail memo news wire letter movies pigeon screen writer carrier mailman relates alphabet bulletin intercom teletype megaphone messenger semaphore telephone dictaphone telegraphy television Marconigrams with one placed to start. a solution appears elsewhere on page.
If your uncle's sister is not your aunt she remains a blood relative by sharing your grandfather or grandmother through your parent. The statement hinges on the sister being your parent’s sister rather than your aunt.
A puzzle presents RET meaning a scribe in three letter inscribed forms. Solve by adding missing letters to form words aligning with clues: Girl's name, Paying, Covertly, Predict, Unhappy, Fee charged, Redice, Cloth of cotton, Securities, Tuft of feathers, Biblical town, plus a final criss-cross or fill-in solution referenced elsewhere on the page.
A compact listing of biblical trivia items covering Genesis to Revelation with cross references. The mixed set includes questions on places, people, events, and terminology, inviting readers to recall scripture, names, numbers, and locations from the Bible.
Author Joseph Doakes releases a five volume set, each volume containing 357 pages. The complete work spans 1785 pages across all volumes, inviting readers to explore the extensive compilation.
In a 25-plot garden Frances Fern plans a color pattern with four red tulip rows of five and yellow tulips in two bulbs per row. The 25 bulbs must be arranged in a 5 by 5 grid to satisfy the color scheme while using a fair planting method.
A local feature notes the town’s oldest resident and a son who is 27 years younger. If the son’s age digits are reversed they yield the father’s age, posing a classic numerical puzzle about ages.
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