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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1954
Page
5
A durable folding table design allows rapid assembly and disassembly. Materials include 1x4 furring strips 2 inch plywood legs and cross-pieces with mortises. Cut a 36 inch square tabletop from 1 inch plywood and mortise as indicated.
The article describes a toy puzzle with hidden personality hints and a science activity to measure the moon’s diameter. Instructions guide tracing dotted lines, then a reading, followed by a practical moon measurement method using tape strips on a window and a sighting card. It also mentions brass bushings in a propeller for wind sensitivity.
A playful office coin trick asks friends to guess if the held amount is odd or even. Regardless of their answer, they are wrong due to a hidden rule or misdirection explained in the setup.
A reader describes a mirror reading puzzle where six consecutive letters appear the same in the chart and its reflection, asking which letters the oculist saw. The page ends with a puzzle about counting nines needed to number houses from 1 to 100.
The clipping describes a word puzzle where readers fill empty vertical spaces to form new short words. It shows corrupted text with sequences like aiqyseoa es susases and odd tokens such as 129110 anid emNaay Priloge4 ee and WO 7] :zeasey, indicating misprint or OCR errors.
The army division has 21000 men in five brigades. Each brigade contributes the same number of men when taking specific fractions: one third of the first, two sevenths of the second, seven twelfths of the third, nine thirteenths of the fourth, and fifteen twenty seconds of the fifth. Each computes to the same quantity, so determine the per brigade count that matches all five fractional expressions to 21000 overall.
A historical dotograph caption describes the winner being applauded after a big race. Instructions request drawing lines from dot 1 to dot 31 to reveal a missing figure and then coloring the drawing with pencils or crayons.
A quirky puzzle describes threading a button onto cork thread and placing it in a bottle. It asks how the button can be removed without shaking or breaking the bottle, posing a playful challenge to the reader and inviting clever solutions.
A garbled crossword style item mixes biblical citations, historical figures, and puzzle prompts. It mentions Jesus and Paul, Babylonian gods, Nehemiah, Artaxerxes, and Solomon, plus scattered references to kings, prophets, and public rooms. The text reads like a damaged obituary of crosswords and trivia from a Bible wisdom page.
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