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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1948
Page
4
A playful list of quiz prompts centered on the word ties. The item challenges juniors with multiple clues about tied meanings, famous names like Gene Tie, and quotations. It blends linguistic puzzles with light trivia and a few literary references.
A quip on the eleventh century Chinese smith who allegedly invented movable type and the delay caused by clay tiles. The passage humorously contrasts China’s thousand-character script with the later spread of printing and prompts readers to spot fifteen errors in the illustrated scene.
A rebus hints at a seven letter state capital. One quarter of capitals have seven letters and no state name has three letters. Guess the capital from the rebus and identify the other ten states with seven letter capitals.
In a store alteration two beams weigh differently. If steel is six pounds heavier and aluminum two pounds lighter, steel becomes three times the aluminum. The combined weight is 18 196 pounds, finding each beam’s weight yields steel at 9 101 pounds and aluminum at 9 095 pounds.
Determine six 6 letter words by inserting the same 3 letter word into the three letter skeletons A.f N CH HE. Each completed word uses the added letters in the same order, yielding valid English words. Provide the six resulting words.
A vintage instruction story urges readers to place an empty matchbox on a hard surface with two halves visible. Participants guess which half will collapse under a punch while others watch. The piece notes the experiment may surprise and cautions only to strike an empty box.
A puzzle presents a block of postage stamps with a drawing showing four stamps joined. It asks how many distinct ways the block could be torn into four stamps with full edge connections and not by corners. Examples list several partitions and challenge to count all possible separations.
Mazing Fae Gerber introduces a new maze design starting at X to reach an exit without dead ends. The feature notes Gerber’s future max and minus-number mazes and hints at William J. Baumgartner's new number maze for wit testing.
A reader explains a fill-in puzzle built from Dickens names such as Scrooge Pip Dora Gamp Fagin and Copperfield. The article notes the unique single arrangement and mentions related characters like Dombey Dorrit Chuzzlewit Carton and Dorrit as examples.
The Spud Race at church picnic had potatoes spaced one yard apart with a basket one yard from the first. The winner was disqualified for lifting the last two potatoes in his final leg. The disqualified runner covered 92 yards in total. How many potatoes were present. Garazae qagy Tounjeg
A solution to a universal problem is presented on this page. The answer follows the referenced method and is labeled as the definitive result for the problem discussed.
Eugene Sheffer style crossword tests knowledge on biblical names places and verses. Includes multiple definitions, word lengths and a unicursal hint, with solution noted elsewhere on the page.
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