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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1946
Page
6
A fragmented puzzle page presents a literary acrostic task with lettered clues and a diagram guiding transfers from defined words. The text evokes a diagrammatic word game, listing scattered words and letter mappings, with obscured author and date elements and numerous OCR errors.
A cryptogram line hints at a substitution puzzle. The message reads CAVCE AM CRY MCAPTH CEATD and asks to decode each word by applying a key, with the second line showing letter-shift hints and a numeric value 98.
A garbled note discusses betting on horse races in the U S with a large, unnamed stake. It mentions an example with three horses at odds 6 to 5 and Appleknower Bindle Stiff, asking how to balance the book to insure an even break, highlighting theory of odds and bookmaking.
A 9 coin puzzle asks to locate the single lighter coin using just two weighings on a balance scale. The paragraph notes prior puzzles and hints at a forthcoming solution, with a nod to the editor and contributors.
In this puzzle two positive numbers x and y satisfy that one seventh of the sum of their cubes equals the sum x plus y and also equals the difference of their squares. Find the two numbers.
Readers send in puzzles from a problem page asking for solutions to classic brainteasers. The lettered scenario describes ten trees, a central four sided fence enclosing 40 acres and a house, and fifty shares of 120 acres each with 40 acres jointly owned, as a test of fair division and logic.
A mixed page item describes a nut card force illusion tapping a hidden card, a cut out puzzle set from letters A to J with a Greek cross pattern, and a property division riddle about three corner plots and moving the house to satisfy all terms. It includes a diagram reference and a wordplay prompt about the phrase to love ruin.
A playful puzzler presents a garbled verse with hints on first second and whale forms, inviting decoding of hidden words. It hints at a company and consent to a task, suggesting a riddle about words and meanings rather than a narrative.
A fragment describes secretly inserting two longer cards into a deck to reveal precise counts. The method uses a 15th and a 20th position long card and two shuffles to claim counts of fifteen and eleven, then twenty six. A substitute identical deck is suggested for the trick.
Fragmentary OCR text hints at a puzzle or wordplay item with unclear, garbled words. Readers see hints of a pope or church theme, but essential names or locations are not readable. The item appears as a brief puzzle note from an old newspaper page segment.
A fragmentary collection of wordplay and oblique references hints at a puzzle sequence. Names and places are unclear, but the text presents a riddle like string of syllables and possible misread terms. The piece reads like a reader’s puzzle column with irregular fragments and partial words.
The page presents a Sunday crossword with questions and answers by Fugene Sheffer, featuring clues across biblical figures, alphabets, and wordplay. It includes references to Abraham, Jehovah, Manasseh, and various verses, plus a section of amatory poetry and quotations.
A dense quiz asks to identify various famous Mary derivatives. Questions span literature, film, history, and poetry, linking Mary to Mary Jane, Marie, Marian, and other forms. The piece quizzes on names, roles, locales, and cultural references across multiple domains.
In the multiplication puzzle TOGS times L equals TOGI, the repeated digit rule fixes a single possible value for 1. Solve to deduce the digit, then arrange all letters by their numeric values to decode the final phrase.
A merchant marks up an item with five percent overhead and ten percent profit on cost. If the item costs ninety five cents, determine the selling price. The problem requires applying the percentage markup to the cost to find total selling price.
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