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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1954
Page
6
A hot weather backyard game requires minimal effort to play or assemble. Using plywood, hooks, screws and a spiral spring, players toss rings to ring hooks on a bell mounted four to five feet high. Ringing the bell scores points. ten rings per turn. first to 100 wins.
A themed crossword style item listing 15 across clues and 15 down clues with wordplay on fractions numbers and phrases. Includes references to the Secret Service McKinley era Lynchings Boy Scouts Bragg puma and other trivia style prompts. Ends with a string of coded entries and abbreviations.
A reader recalls a man angry at tax authorities who paid a bill with loose pennies and demanded a receipt after the collector counted the full amount. The question asks how to distribute 1,000 pennies into 10 bags so any amount from one cent to ten dollars can be made without moving pennies between bags.
A compact DIY note describes building a potato cannon using a barrel, dowel, and plunger. Ammunition is a potato slice, inserted into the barrel and launched by a forward push. Safety and practicality remain unaddressed in the fragment.
A playful party game guides players to add their age to reveal a key number from three or four. They then trace dotted lines to attempt designs and receive a provided interpretation. The readable text also includes garbled strings suggesting an encoded message or misprint.
The puzzle describes three Ree boys Dodson Wilson Morrison and their connections. Dodson stood to Wilson’s right, Franks sat to Ted’s right, and Walter was at the end. Morrison’s sister is Walter’s girlfriend. Determine the full names of the three using these positional and relational clues.
Practical notes describe taking a magazine rack outdoors to a terrace or front porch under an apple tree. The text suggests a chairside convenience is worthwhile for easy access to reading materials while enjoying a shaded outdoor space.
A shop states a vest and trousers equal the price of a coat. A coat plus two trousers is 52.50. Two vests plus one trouser total 30. Determine prices then compute a three piece suit. The result scales from the three equations to find each item’s price and the suit total.
A simple rack design uses a 1x8 board, doweled clothespins, and corks to hold spare poles and gear. It serves to keep equipment organized and away from children, with modifications possible by adding more clothespins or corks as needed.
Mr Nimblewit poses riddles to his twins Percy and Peter Nimblewit. They answer with a tied score. Readers are invited to try to solve along. Questions include what goes up and down at the same time and what belongs to you but is used by others.
Instructions describe coloring a quilt design with patches of the same color in adjoining segments. If crayons are unavailable, use two distinct black pencil marks to mark red and blue areas and leave white areas blank.
A new item added to Annabelle s room is a piece of furniture for storing belongings. The activity suggests drawing a 21 dot connect puzzle from 3018, using dots where zeros appear as ones. After the drawing, colors are added with colored pencils or crayons.
A scanned crossworld style puzzle page lists numerous cryptic Bible related clues including names, places, numbers, and terms. The readable fragments mention psalm, apostle Paul, Esther, Jericho, and Levitical city, among others, suggesting a biblically themed crossword with horizontal and vertical entries.
A brain teaser asks for Sara’s house number and Monstvek age. Let the four digits be A R S T with S the sum. The last figure T equals four times A. The second equals S minus two? Wait. The sum A+T equals twice the third figure. Solving yields house number and Sara’s age.
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