LONGTIME NEWSPAPER SUBSCRIBER UNHAPPY WITH DIFFICULTY OF CROSSWORD PUZZLES
Sioux Falls, South Dakota (JFK+50) On January 8, 1925, The Associated Press reports one of the "oldest subscribers" of his local daily newspaper has cancelled his subscription.
Was the subscriber upset with an editorial, front-page story, or something offensive in the comic section? No, he was miffed at the level of difficulty of the paper's crossword puzzles.
He wrote...
"Lately (your) crossword puzzles...have been harder and harder and now almost impossible to solve."
The twenty-four year Garretson*, South Dakota subscriber proposes to "take another" newspaper "in which the puzzles can be worked without staying up all night."
*Garretson is located in Minnehaha County, South Dakota & is named for a local banker, A.S. Garrestson. The 2020 population was 1,228. The town is home to Devil's Gulch were Jessie James is said to have escaped a possee after robbing the Northfield National Bank in Minnesota.
SOURCE
"24-Year Subscriber Quits Paper; Holds Puzzles Too Hard," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., January 8, 1925, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
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