Poultry Association to Meet on October 27 at 8 PM
Members will convene at W. D. Shearer’s office to discuss important business and final show preparations for the November 17 opening. All members urged to attend. Mr and Mrs Swan Matson and son Wilfred arrived from Monmouth for the Durham Matson wedding. Mr and Mrs Fred Werner left for Illinois on their wedding trip.
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W. D.shearer
Mrs. Swan Matson
Wilfred
Monmouth
Dunham-Matson
Fred Werner
Burlington
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Puzzler No 281 Botanical Puzzle
A reader presents a botanical wordplay list where each clue asks to find a hidden item within plant names. Ten items link a plant name to words like beast of burden, organ of vision, sly animal, covering, pinch, destructive bird, body part, parasitic insect, poison, obscurity, screen, vehicle, organized people, confectionery, cluster, coin, sail, season, and color.
Guess Our Ages Riddle Poem
The verse poses four ages with traits tied to wit wisdom commerce and protection. It hints at stages of life and social roles, inviting readers to identify the ages described and their symbolic meanings.
No 283 Rebus Puzzle Provides Truthful Proverb
A readable rebus sentence offers a concise truthful saying expressed as a proverb hidden within images or wordplay.
Charade Riddle Delivers a Hidden Answer Puzzle
A verse riddle hints at a secret word by parts: the first part linked to girls, the last to a recurring sound, and the whole itself is intentionally obscure. The clue structure suggests a playful language game typical of puzzle pages in old newspapers.
Riddle: Farm and shipboard útil object on table
I am useful on the farm as well as on shipboard. Transpose me and I belong on the table. Change me back and remove my middle to become part of your face.
Word Square clues puzzle entry No. 286
A list of clue prompts including England name, an African colony, East Prussia town, a purpose, a Danish town, a French town. Short puzzle item presenting five or six word clues for readers to solve.
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Africa
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Denmark
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Toy Motor Boat Races Draw Paris Youths to Lakes
Toy motor boat racing has become popular among Paris youths. Boats range from inches to four feet and larger crafts use powerful engines. Regular contests are held in the artificial lakes of the Tuileries gardens and other basins.
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Tuileries Gardens
Conundrums and Wordplay Puzzles
A collection of playful riddles about letters and everyday items. The jokes compare k to flour in cake making and question molasses in a two quart pail. A quip notes Rome was not built in a day.
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Rome
A Three Letter Palindrome Describes Warm Hearted Beauty
A word of three letters reads the same backward and forward, expressing warm heartfelt sentiment and claiming beauty as its central idea. Eye.
Riddles Spark Simple Garden Q And Bible Fire
A short verse poses a joke about a gardener placing his foot in a garden and asks what makes people sick except those who swallow it. It also asks who the first nobleman mentioned in the Bible is, answering with a barren fig tree.
Century Poem Riddle of a Centipede and Toad
A playful verse shows a centipede perplexed by a toad’s question which leg comes after which. The creature becomes distracted and lies in a ditch unable to decide the next movement.
Riddle and Puzzles From No 275 to 280
A set of mathematical and word puzzles. No. 276 asks for ratio based quantities in a 126 quart total. No. 277 presents pairs like Bryan and Joe. No. 278 lists sea creatures. No. 279 offers a Word Square. No. 280 shows synocopations with altered letter patterns.
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Joel
Penn
Penny
Cain
Caine
Poe
Pope
Jude
Judge
Lover
Plover
Steffen Arm Ends Chicago Football Hopes As Captain
Walter Peter Steffen is projected as captain and centerpiece of the Chicago football squad. The maroon plans to rely on him as brains, ground gainer, punter, passer and kicker, aiming to build around his abilities for early season games.
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Steffen
Chicago University
Walter Peter Steffen
Hershberger
Stagg
Batte
One-Armed George Ely Shines In Baseball Play
George Ely the Los Angeles amateur second baseman bats .380 and fields with one arm. He also pitches and has seven years in baseball, recently touring Washington with the Sioux Indian team and defeating many top players. Two handicap races planned at Readville next year promise big events for 1909 grand circuit horses, with pacing and trotting as part of the programme.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Ely
Washington
Sly
Readville
New England
Joyner Considered Move to Train Whitney Horses in England
A. J. Joyner, trainer of the Harry Payne Whitney string, may accept an offer to handle the horses in England. The Whitney horses will sail soon to acclimate for next season and be quartered at Newmarket where a training establishment was secured.
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Mr. Whitney
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Joyner
Newmarket
Coates Named Andover Football Captain
Francis William Coates, class of 1909 from Palmyra New York, was elected captain of the Andover football team. He succeeds Earle A. Rosendale, who did not return. Coates, six feet one and a half inches, twenty, weighs 164 pounds and started at left end last season as one of five veterans returning.
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Coates
Andover
Francis William Coates
Palmyra
N. Y
Earle A. Rosendale
Kramer Expects to Go Abroad for World Sprint Race
Frank Kramer the American short distance bicycle champion will travel to Europe for an international match in France against the world’s best sprint racers. He aims to bring home world honors.
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Kramer
Frank Kramer
Europe
France
Boston National League President Bets on Players After Park Spend
President George Dovey of the Boston National League club says he has poured 30000 dollars into the ball park over two years and now plans to invest the money in players to boost the team.
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George Dovey
Boston
National League Baseball
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