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  2. PUZZLES

    A wireless dealer brought a number of valves. When he sold them he gained threepence each on 25 of them, and lost twopence each on the others. His net ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 186 words
  3. for the Boys and Girls

    TWO of the strangest animals in the world are the Tasmanian wolf and devil. They are unique because they are the only native flesh-eating ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 621 words
  4. NOTABLE EVENTS

    CALAIS. after being held by England 210 years, was retaken by the Duke of Guise on this day in 1558. Grief for the loss of it is said to ...

    Article : 372 words
  5. BANK NOTE NOT TO BE IMITATED

    ONE of the most remarkable men of the nineteenth century was George Cruikshank, the famous caricaturist. He stamped a whole century ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 603 words
  6. Last Week's Solved

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 46 words
  7. Criticisms and Correspondence

    Roy Taylor.—The quaint printing was very creditable. The spacing was faulty. This was especially noticeable in the first letter; it had not been ...

    Article : 701 words
  8. Correspondence and Criticisms

    Martin Hambleton invites his readers to forward: 1. Original contributions in prose and were for criticism and ...

    Article : 84 words
  9. HOLIDAY BALLOT

    HOLIDAYS! As we are an in the mood of "wanting to play"—the usual way in holiday time—I have arranged a competition appropriate to ...

    Article : 263 words
  10. CLOCK MARVELS

    When the Prince of Wales dined with the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers recently, he referred to some of the wonderful timepieces, some ...

    Article : 218 words
  11. Who Invented Ice Cream?

    Who doesn't like Ice cream? The popular summer refresher is said to have been known for centuries. In 1777 an advertisement of a man named ...

    Article : 265 words
  12. New Homes for Italian Peasants

    HOW she and seven other nurses struggled through miles of tropical jungle to reach the Gran Chaco front, where Paraguayan and ...

    Article : 266 words
  13. RED REVELRY

    For the first time since the revolution, the famous Winter Palace in Leningrad, once the home of the Romanoff Czars, has been the scene ...

    Article : 270 words
  14. Picked Counsel's Pocket

    While making a final plea in an Athens Court for the acquittal of a thief named Rumanocos, a Greek barrister ...

    Article : 114 words
  15. Smoke Room Stories

    "He says I look like the best dancer I on the floor. Wonder If I ought to i give him a dance?" "No. Better let him keep on ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 886 words
  16. Gift From State

    Large numbers of Italian peasant families are finding wonderful nev homes near Littoria, the new city in the reclaimed pontine marshes. ...

    Article : 378 words
  17. BRIGHTER DAYS

    Brighter days are in prospect for some of the British possessions in the West Indies now that the United States has gone "wet." ...

    Article : 140 words
  18. Death Notice

    A husband at Buffalo has confessed to the police that he inserted a notice of his wife's death in a Buffalo newspaper in order to make her relations ...

    Article : 125 words
  19. TOO GREEN!

    A wife's charge that her husband celebrated St. Patricks Day by painting her and their three children green led to a legal separation being granted ...

    Article : 103 words
  20. WORKS OF ART

    Americans, who in the past have bought almost everything else on the instalment plan, are to be offered paintings and sculpture on deferred ...

    Article : 86 words
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