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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1946
Page
7
A vintage optical tests page presents a set of riddles and wordplay. It includes questions about hats and famous figures, a magic square puzzle, a stock-dividend brain teaser, and a poetry themed charade.
A playful text proposes converting world peace by successive letter removals substitutions and rearrangements from WORLD to form words meaning rove about in a nat earthy manner might musical drama and a thin crimped cloth with an eventual link to PEACE through letter rearrangement.
A puzzle presents four incomplete lines where three words are omitted each line. Each missing word is an anagram of the others, formed from the same letters rearranged. Readers must supply proper letters to restore coherent phrases describing actions, objects, and ideas across the lines.
A wordplay item asks for a single title borne by many Americana that is a perfect palindrome reading the same forward and backward. The clue hints at a widely used honorific with this unique property, challenging readers to identify the palindromic title.
A fragment explains rearming to play a lullaby by folding a paper to the keyboard and sounding notes as indicated. A numeral 2 after a letter signals the higher note. The lullaby is credited to Emma Mel Kean, noted illustrator of children's stories.
A jumbled note urges sleep and rest to gain strength for the day, mentioning prayers and waking to play. The text is largely garbled but centers on choosing rest tonight to be ready for activities tomorrow.
Doakes cleans socks after a bath finding four gray four blue and four brown in a mixed pile. With a broken bulb he must pick socks in darkness to guarantee a matching pair, asking for the smallest number to ensure a pair within seconds.
An eight letter word whose letters form a fruit, a style, and a step via specific positions. The given jumbled hint sequence hints at rearranging to reveal a coherent eight letter word that yields a fruit, a style, and a step when using the indicated letter positions. The solution is a single eight letter word satisfying all positional clue mappings.
Pipe A can fill the tank alone in two minutes. Pipes B and C drain the full tank in six and twelve minutes. With the tank at one quarter, all three pipes opened simultaneously will fill the tank in a set time. Compute net fill rate and time to reach full capacity.
A fragmented puzzle item presents a riddle about a tree ending along the sea shore and a second line listing garbled phrases. The readable bits suggest a playful quiz from a newspaper page segment, with bolded question style and stray letters indicating OCR damage and jumbled text.
A noisy tease presents scrambled first and last names of forty five Kollywood stars. The puzzle tasks solvers to match given mixed fragments into correct identities amid a Dizzy Poodle style misdirection and garbled clues.
A Sunday crossword presents horizontal and vertical Bible themed clues, with references from Samuel, Corinthians, Psalms, Genesis, and more. The puzzle lists questions and answers about biblical figures, places, and events, including Laban, Laban's elder daughter, Philistines, and the Ark of God, along with thematic quotations.
A compact excerpt lists weights and denominations for a balance scale puzzle and riffs on cryptic word clues. It mentions a range 1 to 127 pounds and references names like Zophyi and phrases such as weigh any number on an old scale. The fragment hints at a game and a mix of coded lines from a puzzle page.
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