The Abandoned Mine Adventures of Two Detectives
Ted Holmes and Bill Watson aim to solve a kidnaping when Dorothy vanishes. They search an old mine, Ted slips into water, Bill fetches help, and Dorothy is found safe after a town rescue. Ted and Bill reflect they are still learning to be sleuths.
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W. Boyce
Morgan
Ted Holmes
Bill Watson
Bill
Orothy
Ted
Bil
Pete
Watson
Dad
Mr. Watson
Dorothy
Mr. Wesson
Eating Wool During Meals Sparks Knitwear Quip
A lighthearted note jokes about knitting at the table. The speaker complains that spaghetti strands blend with a sweater, suggesting the wearer knits during meals and humorously hints at wardrobe interference with dining.
Safety First: A Pencilseller's Cautionary Tale
A crippled man selling pencils on the sidewalk shares how a railway yard accident cost him his legs. The moral stresses safety first to prevent ruined lives from rush and carelessness and urges readers to avoid taking chances.
Corny Tales and Quick Laughs From a Local Page
A jumble of humor items and odd letters advises readers with short gags about salesmen, vacuum jokes, corny syrup complaints, and a teacher involving a child named Tommy. The snippets hint at a lighthearted column titled My Fer Editor.
Pets and Pets: Goats, Dogs, and Kids Share Tales
A Boys and Girls page vignette highlights Ward Britton of Letcher South Dakota and his Toggenburg goat Magpie who followed him to school and caused lunch disputes. Eva Marquart of Madison South Dakota shows Bill the curly water spaniel who helps with ducks, fetches the paper, whines for entry, chases sticks, and scolds other dogs chasing cars, a brave reformer in dog form.
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Mary
Ward
Britton
Letcher
South Dakota
Magpie
Maggie
Ior
Bill
Eva Marquart
Madison
Billy
Riddle Queries from Readers Pack Decade of Puzzles
A row of reader submitted brain teasers with names and locations, from Marie Smith in Waterloo Iowa to Raymond Everett in Minneapolis Minnesota. Questions cover money value of bills, biblical parentage, locomotive hearing, donkey versus postage stamp, laws and oceans, lame dog and schoolboy, schoolmaster and the letter C, cats with extra lives, peas in a pint, and a ship with two mates but no captain.
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Eloise Foster
Crowley
Louisiana
Faul Kinnersley
Salt Lake City
Utah
E. H. Wenmoth
Sandusky
Ohio
William J. McGuirk
North Walpole
New Hampshire
Russelash
Elkhart
Indiana
Raymond Gross
St.Louis
Missouri
Marvin Riddle
Badger
South Dakota
Raymond Everett
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Riddle Editor Seeks New Puzzles for Paper Page
A caller invites readers to submit original riddles for publication with the promise of attribution, asking them to send entries to the Riddle Editor care of the newspaper and to watch for printed results.
Can You Name the World's Wonders
A historical aside lists the original Seven Wonders and contrasts them with modern innovations. It recalls the Pyramids of Egypt, Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, Lighthouse of Alexandria, Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Statue of Zeus at Olympia, and Colossus of Rhodes as the famed ancient landmarks.
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Egypt
Diana
Ephesus
Alexandria
Babylon
Jupiter
Athens
Rhodes
What' s the Matter? Answer will be found elsewhere on this page
A brief note indicates the answer to the question is located elsewhere on the page. The statement signals readers to look beyond the current item for further clarification or resolution.
Posers Prompt Readers Ask to Guess Answers
A playful list of trivia questions challenges readers to supply missing facts. It asks where Shakespeare was born, defines equilateral triangles, locates Genoa, explains a crypt, asks about The Lay of the Last Minstrel, and queries Confucius, raisins, and the number in a gross.
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Shakespeare
Ayhet
Genoa
Confucius
Answers to posers at Stratford on Avon England
A riddle list giving clues about a triangle with equal sides a city in Italy on the Mediterranean a vault chamber partly underground Sir Walter Scott Anamoun Chinese philosopher dried grapes and a number one hundred and forty four
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Stratford-on-Avon
England
Whitch
Italy
Mediterranean Sea
Sir Walter Scott
Anamoun
Do Not Play in the Streets Around Automobiles
A safety reminder emphasizes avoiding street play when vehicles are present. It warns children and bystanders to stay on sidewalks and curb areas, never dart into traffic, and to wait for a safe gap before crossing.
Riddles and Misprints From a Continental Page
Answers to riddles appear jumbled with misspellings and odd phrasing. The fragments mention a bill in a pocket, arithmetic misdirections, Joshua, engineers, melting with a stick, breakers causing trouble, a person carrying three, making classes from asses, a frog croaking nightly, and a court at 350 Court Wae, indicating a puzzle column or garbled OCR from a historical page.
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Joshua
The Circus Puzzle Chain and Hidden Circus Character
Puzzle text invites readers to craft a circular word chain from circus themes, starting with the smallest troupe member and moving through a wild animal and arena, ending with a co operating group. It also hints at a mysterious circus character concealed within a sentence about magic and daily letters.
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Fletters Daily
Word Square Puzzle Clues Hint at Center Word Links
A readable fragment outlines a word-square type puzzle with five-letter center words and horizontal or vertical definitions. Clues include body of lines like Pure, Invades, Anger, Lair, Solidified water, Allow, To do, Fastens, Head ornament, Thick black substance, Exist.
Puzzles LC Answers and Clues Summary
Puzzle clues mention elephant, crown, ewe and a mixed set of wordplay items. It lists a word square theme with items like pat are chiat crown and retde tar, plus references to numbers 1 5 7 12 43 14 35 and scattered fragments such as Magician and Midget-dear-ring-giant team.
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Puzeles
Crown
Neal
Pat
Lot
The Horse Maker Little Robert Observation
A young boy named Robert, with his nurse, spots a blacksmith shoeing a horse. He proudly reports to his mother that he saw the man who makes horses today and confirms the sighting, noting one horse nearly finished and the smith at work on another.
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Robert
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