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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1948
Page
4
A description of a coin swallow magic trick using a tin tube and twine to hide a marked dime, plus a series of puzzle prompts about E- words and mythic, literary, and historical clues. The text weaves performance steps with incomplete quiz items and names.
Wordplay hides geographical designations across sentences. The passage presents cryptic phrases about October cold, landscape symmetry, and riches, then a recipe narrative counting ingredients and jars with a peeling of stray letter strings implying further clues.
A drawing puzzle explains how to connect numbered and lettered dots and fold along lines. A separate word problem describes a church bazaar stock of nylon stockings auctioned in stages: Jones buys half the stock but returns ten pairs, the second bidder takes a third of the remainder and returns two, the third bidder buys half of what remains and returns one, leaving twelve pairs to sell in one batch. Determine the original total.
A reader puzzle uses the universal dial arrangement to form a six letter bird name by combining two three letter groups. The letters are rearranged to spell the bird, with the sum of the numbers under the letters totaling ten.
An odd riddle suggests a VAT coin gains value when half is removed, leaving a cryptic clue about an oD sensor. The note combines wordplay with a technical reference, implying a puzzle rather than a literal transaction.
A dying woman in a room with three doctors names Dr Brown as the killer without pointing to any one of them. The clue lies in the phrasing He did it. and the initials in her garbled last line FG di o o ogi feu cuag of caton Alen VOUT PUR Bly SISA TF TOMAIES pointing to Brown.
A fragmented quiz crossword puzzle from a 1960s feature listing biblical clues and references. It includes numerous Bible verse citations, names, and short definitional prompts, forming a dense, era-typical word-fill puzzle.
Puzzle lists questions and cross references from scripture with answers implied by numbered clues. It presents a cryptic two minute timer hint and several biblical trivia prompts across numbers 34 to 69, including people, places, and terms like Greek letters and remedies.
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