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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1954
Page
5
Puzzle Pete hides four facts about Korea in a coded sentence. The page lists crossword clues and wordplays including country names, animal terms, and common words. Puzzle Pete’s note hints at decoding with Cartoonist Cal’s letter in KOREA to solve the puzzle.
Twenty lines pose pairs of homonyms with clues for each. Solve and pair meanings such as study and reduce, pilfer and iron, fruit and bury, heir and ozone, bucket and wan, seer and benefit, sue and tribe, weight and root, squander and blouse, solicit and cloth, breakfast food and serial, opposite of fine and track, boy and sun, sixty minutes and belonging to us, string and chords, current and sour, letter paper and not movable, candle and pig cousin. Then a word rearrangement yields a Korea fact in each line and completes a mapped diamond puzzle.
The National Geographic Society suggests a road between the Euphrates and the Nile may be the world’s oldest. A giant squid may weigh up to 30 tons and resembles an octopus but has ten arms. Chimpanzees can be taught simple arithmetic.
The article explains ancient marble playing in Egypt and Rome, then describes how marbles are made from clay stone or glass, and notes uses such as glass marbles in signs and fish hatcheries. It details shooting terms knuckle down slips hist hunch and ranking in national marbles.
The Siberian Husky is highlighted as a hardy sled dog vital to Canadian life in winter outposts. The article notes the Eskimo Husky trio, training and race culture, and Emile Martell of Quebec as the 1951 champion winning a gold trophy and $1000. It also mentions a Quebec postman delivering mail with Labrador-powered teams.
A second grader who watched a cow being milked said she saw workers unmilk a cow. When reminded that they milk a cow she replied that they took the milk away.
The column lists word pairs and homophones such as burial bury 4 Heir air 5 Pail pale 6 Prophet profit 7 Sue Sioux 8 Carat carrot 9 Waste waist 10 Canvass canvas 11 Cereal serial 12 Course course 13 Son sun 14 Hour our 15 Cord chord 16 Current cur rant 17 Stationery stationary 18 Taper topir plus mix of Silkworm culture Douglas MacArthur Democratic republic and a concluding DIAMOND note.
At the go signal each captain hands his first player a pair of gloves. Player pushes on toeg o.
In Homeville High a shy cousin Lorenzo longs to be top comic. He trades quips with Jerry as they run a Fourth of July hot dog stand using heated nails and wiring to cook, turning a risky idea into sales and a momentary triumph.
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