Washington’s Crossing of the Delaware Christmas Night 1776
The feature details Washington’s bold surprise attack at Trenton after crossing the ice-choked Delaware on Christmas night 1776. It notes Hessian forces under Rahl, the surprise assault, and the subsequent American victory shaping the Revolutionary War’s turning point.
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Washington
Delaware
Wash
Pene
Lie Cat
New York
New Jersey
Trenton
Princeton
Philadelphia
Rahl
Enton
Rome
Tory
Rall
Elds
Cornwallis
Brandywine Creek
Howe
England
Day of Fun In the Snow at the Preston House
The Preston children wake to a snowy world and build a Capitol sized snow house and a tall snow statue. Alice Ruggles’s snow sculpture near Boston inspires her later career as a famous sculptor. The family imagines their own future artists as they sled and dream.
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Preston
Bobby
Sue
Harry
Ned
Washington
Preston Building Committee
Capitol
Alice Ruggles
Boston
Alice
Hfe
Hart Schaffner & Marx
Numerical Enigma Puzzle from a 19th Century Page
A fragment presents a playful puzzle titled Numerical Enigma with multiple numbered clues. It weaves common phrases and requests about gifts, attire, and actions through missing digits, inviting readers to fill in the 1 through 8 sequence. The piece reads like a light editorial filler.
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Dayton
Gray
Daisy
Day
No 390 Geographical Puzzle Seeks a Worldly Place
Puzzle asks to combine fractions from city witches river country land sea city Spain old place to form a name that woke the world’s pity. The riddle blends numbers and geography to yield a single geographic name.
Cryptic Signals of Ancient Minds and Modern Bars
A fragment hints at an Egyptian goddess and Norse cunning paired with modern settings. Edge and thought suggest contrasts between myth and perception. Mentions of a mansion and taverns evoke grand spaces and social spaces in a layered, still unclear context.
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Edge
Blackboard Puzzles: Magzie Lines Five Squares for 34
A single straight line by Magzie scores 34 points by passing through five squares. Determine the maximum possible score attainable with one straight mark under the same puzzle rules.
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Magzie
Washington Star
Curtailings Puzzle: Imaginary Being, Island Bear, Dignitary Title
A historical wordplay item asks to shorten a name for a tiny imaginary creature while preserving weather, shorten a famed island to reveal a young bear, and shorten a high church official title to show a bottled beverage. The clues hinge on compacting terms without dropping the core meanings.
Riddle of the Firet and the Hidden Creature
A playful riddle hints at a pot like vessel and a circular marking, then a time keeping device, ending with a creature dwelling in an isle.
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The
Ile
Subtractions Puzzle: Wordplay with Subtract Actions
A set of cryptic style clues asks subtracting numbers from words to reveal new terms. Each item pairs a base word with a numeric subtraction and a resulting concept or word, e.g., kill to utter, enemy to turf, exhale, rest, require, foot protection, and galt from location.
The Air That Goes Abroad Day And Night
A riddle describing the air that surrounds everyone, moves both day and night, is busy whether light or dark, yet no one has seen its face as it flows beside people daily and nightly.
How to Clean White Leather Shoes and Overcome Cooking Odors
Advice on cleaning white leather shoes using gasoline or white chalk and flour for dusty shoes. Describes making a white polish from whiting and water and cleaning chamois with ammonia solution. Also suggests washing chamois in ammonia suds and drying away from heat. For cooking odors, notes volatile sulfur oils from onions turnips and cabbage spreading through the house and offers salted soaking and controlled boiling as remedies.
Personal Work and The Price of Power Sermons
Dr Orr preached on personal work and the need for a baptism of the Spirit. He warned two thousand unsaved in the city, urged home-based outreach, and urged persistence until conversion. The following Tuesday sermon, The Price of Power, stressed prayer Bible understanding restitution and readiness to wait for the Holy Spirit.
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Orr
Washington
Doctor Orr
Madrigal
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Terhune
Tren
TON
Diamond
Snow House
Gerty
Eva
Katie
Jennie
Tor Orr
Weetines
Hart Schaffner
Marx
Klein Klothing
Hart Schaffner & Marx Cj
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