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...expanded, colored up, bigger and better in every way. There was the letter puzzle which come:; out: "Wise you are, wise you be. I see you are too wise for mo." There was the well-known optical illusion of the elephant swallowing a peanut. There was a well-known matchbox trick, fully explained diagrammatically. A note referred the reader to the World's Magazine Section-where were set down little-known facts about Harry Houdini: that he was born to the name of Weiss, son of a scholarly rabbi; that he tock his name from a French magician, Robert...
Lost. On Sunday night between Hilton and Plympton St., a small silver matchbox bearing monogram on the back. Please return to Leavitt & Pierce's or 404 Harvard...