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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1908
Page
7
In a tense study scene Bennett faces a moral test as Horrigan threatens to publish damning evidence about his father’s alleged graft. His mother commands him to do right, while the possibility of protecting a borough franchise puts pressure on Alwyn to choose duty over personal risk.
Suburban home of Charles Wainwright plots to corner Borough Street railway stock with Scott Gibbs and boss Horrigan backing. Alwyn Bennett finances romance as Judge Newman and Phelan maneuver. Bennett becomes mayor to curb corruption while Wagner and Gibbs maneuver the bill and betrayals ripple through city hall.
A reflection on sudden loss and the slow process of readjustment. The text describes shock, sorrow, and the enduring identity of the self as one adapts to changed conditions. It emphasizes resilience, spiritual continuity, and the eventual return of purpose after bereavement.
Misjudeed notes mention Georgie Mamima as the man who makes the bread at the bakery, described with a loafer tone in Lippincott's. The item frames a curious label rather than a formal biography or report.
A brief editorial note from the Minneapolis Journal cautions readers to beware unwarranted demands and moral hazards. It warns against provoking trouble or appealing to danger, stressing prudence and restraint in dealings with troublesome debt or risk.
The item lists No 140 Transpositions with clues transforming words to new meanings such as a dower to painful and a store to jumps, and No 141 A Swarm of Bees asks for eight rebus resolutions by a young lady. Readable hints include transposed forms and wordplay examples from the New York Globe.
The compilation includes Mr. George and Jane along with Burns Howe Eliot Browning Ward Austen Kip ling Louis Stevenson Julia Rob ert Tierry Robert Rudyard Hawe thorne Longfellow Lamb Thackeray Willian Dickens Makepeace Charles Nathaniel Mary Wadsworth, marking a wide range of classic and contemporary figures in literature.
A cryptic item lists six clue lines labeled No 144 that riff on the phrase triple beheadings. Each line alters a base word to yield a new sense such as harbors weight waters or pieces of board, while one hits a foreigner and wrath. The piece reads like a wordplay puzzle from a historical newspaper page.
The puzzle lines present four items including a bear attack, a person named Ilenry escaping a fire, a school alert to tell Otto to study, and a suggestion to adorn a room with bric a brac or new hangings.
Several imps appear in a verse puzzle each assigned a clue. One is clever and bestows skill. Another sails a boat and aims to inclose tasks. A wanderer may improve by becoming at large. A savage Indian imp bears charges. A fourth brings beer and restrains men. A fifth drifts with the air and spoils without doubt.
A kitchen riddle describes combining specified portions of tomato, artichoke, onion, radish, and cabbage to produce an unexpected new vegetable as a result of equal care in mixing.
A set of four wordplay clues asks to alter one letter from each prompt to yield distinct answers. The targets include a French Mediterranean city turning into an Egyptian river, a cultured woman becoming a melancholic state, a vast crowd becoming a pliable water conduit, and a body of water turning into its temporal opposite.
A cluttered listing of puzzles and word games including Miss Kr, Mr Kister, Additions E motion St aid St nage A part P lake Seven, A Queer Gardener thyme and mint, Dropped Letters Elephant America Conundrum, Framed Pyramid 2TALwnSsNUNDbkK8EMREKAKEKKa&RkN1A4, Idle Horses upside down workmen on trees, Word Square Frog Rove Over Germ, Double Acrostic Anthony Wayne era nation yacht abash who yarn navy outlaw harmonica tiny noon angie, Charade Pig meat, Syncopations widdle file elevate elate funnel fuel.
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