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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1939
Page
4
The readable text describes a blade being manipulated near a pencil and a person named Poteet appears near a doorway or edge. The fragmentary lines reference a tricky task and a blade entering proximity to a pencil.
Ann and Andy tour Paris and remark on peculiar chimney pots seen from their attic. Pussy the cat is fond of the sights, while Andy quips that Santa would struggle to fit down any chimney at Christmas. The lighthearted exchange captures travel humor and holiday whimsy.
A Constantinople merchant loses a purse with two hundred gold pieces and emeralds. A tailor returns the purse, but the avaricious merchant refuses the reward. The court rules the sailor receives the reward and the merchant bears the loss of the emeralds. The case reaches Ali Pasha who exposes the merchant’s deceit.
In a curious exchange a sailor swears the purse he found contained emerald earrings and gold but turns out to be merely gold. The merchant is offered a 40 day claim period to prove ownership. if unclaimed, the purse and its contents revert to the merchant after that time.
Instructions describe crafting a toy chest from a torpedo shaped chest about five by inches with precise overhangs. It covers cutting corners, making feet, assembling pieces, adding hinges from brass copper leather or materials like gloves oilcloth, and finishing with paint. It ends with a non sequitur line about Sally Is Mary musical.
Rose, a 16 year old girl, finds a stray mother cat with four kittens hidden in a cellar. She and her mother rescue the hungry brood, feed them warm milk, and name the playful kittens as Blackie returns to their hiding place.
A reader puzzle presents a two horizontal two vertical word square with clues. The notes indicate several misprints and the answer line shows the solution: 14 RCH.
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