Enjoy today’s Cryptogram
Happiness is starting the morning early with Today’s Cryptogram and a prayer (in reverse order)! Thank you, Apple!
K RKDD YE OV JE JUP HKZ GKAYPTPS WBA BAS HBL, “UPDDE. WL ABWP KH KAKYE WEAJELB, LEO IKDDPS WL GBJUPT. VTPVBTP JE SKP.” — WEAJELBSolution to previous Puzzle: (select the yellow text with your cursor to read):
I WILL GO UP TO THE SIX FINGERED MAN AND SAY, “HELLO. MY NAME IS INIGO MONTOYA, YOU KILLED MY FATHER. PREPARE TO DIE.” — MONTOYA
HAL'S CRYPTOGRAM HELPER
I got Chernow’s biography for Fathers Day, and am just now getting around to reading it. Today’s author intensely disliked school, but got his start as an apprentice printer, one of the few jobs available that did not entail backbreaking manual labor. He later worked in his older brother’s print shop. One of his brother’s products was a local newspaper. When unrelated business took his brother out of town, he ran the shop including the paper. Like Benjamin Franklin, he inserted letters he wrote himself under pseudonyms, initially unbeknowst to his stuffy brother, under a pen name.
He graduated to inserting editorials and other prose. When his brother, an avid Iowa Republican, was appointed by Lincoln to be the Secretary of the Neveda Territory (one step below governor) our author followed as his assistant. When Neveda became a state in 1864 (to solidify the Republican hold on the Senate) his brother was out a job, and so was he. He bummed his way to San Francisco, and found work as a reporter, a job he disliked, but it gave him his start.
He tried at one point to purchase a share in Hartford Courant, but the owners snubbed him, and he had a lifelong beef with that newspaper.
“If you don’t read the newspapers, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you are misinformed.” - YOMF UPOBG