CRAZE FOE PUZZLES.
CROSS-WORD,. ENTHUSIASTS. RAID ON DICTIONARIES. A, and N.Z. LONDON, Feb. 20. The authorities in charge of many of the smaller free libraries have removed their dictionaries from the shelves in consequence of the damage done to the volumes by cross-word puzzle enthusiasts. At the British Museum admittance is being refused to people searching for solutions of the puzzles. One result of the remarkable craze is a decline in novel reading. A leading London publisher says his sales of that type ot book bare fbdjaedL 25 j>er cent,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18950, 23 February 1925, Page 9
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90CRAZE FOE PUZZLES. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18950, 23 February 1925, Page 9
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