Good morning.
We’ll have blowing snow throughout the day, with a high of twenty-three, and about one to two inches of snow overnight.
It’s the anniversary of the first sales (from 1935) of beer in a can:
Canned beer makes its debut on this day in 1935. In partnership with the American Can Company, the Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company delivered 2,000 cans of Krueger’s Finest Beer and Krueger’s Cream Ale to faithful Krueger drinkers in Richmond, Virginia. Ninety-one percent of the drinkers approved of the canned beer, driving Krueger to give the green light to further production….
On this day in 1960, Green Country residents meet to discuss a crisis:
1960 – Crisis of Morals in Green County
On this date representatives of civic and service organizations, schools and churches met in Monroe to discuss the “crisis of morals” in Green County, where the number of unwed mothers increased to 40 in 1959. [Source: Janesville Gazette]
Last I’d heard, Green County was still standing, these many decades later.
Puzzability’s Alternative Musicians series ends today, with Friday’s game:
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This Week’s Game — January 20-24
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Alternative Musicians
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Some people can really sing their hearts out. For each day this week, we began with the name of a solo singer who has won a Record of the Year Grammy Award. Then we removed any spaces and punctuation and deleted every other letter, leaving just the odd letters. The day’s clue shows those remaining letters in order.
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Example:
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MCALAKO
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Answer:
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Michael Jackson
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What to Submit:
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Submit the singer’s name (as “Michael Jackson” in the example) for your answer.
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Friday, January 24
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