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REPORTERS and DOUGLAS-LINCOLN DEBATE
This week's quiz is a logical problem.
During the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858, five reporters (Greene, Jarvis, Stone, Tyrell, and Webster) failed to get the candidates' opinion on crucial issues of the day. Each of these five men worked for a different paper in a different one of five Illinois cities (including Galesburg) that hosted a debate. No two reporters asked the same question (one asked the candidates if they had ever experimented with moonshine). From the information provided below, determine the reporter who worked for each city's newspaper (one was the Graphic), as well as the question he asked.
1. The reporter for the Ottawa paper, who was not Webster, did not ask about either the candidates' views on women's fashions or their preference in long johns.The reporter for the Eagle, who was not Webster, did not ask about long johns. The one who asked the question about women's fashions wrote for the Sun.
2. Greene, who asked the candidates what type of long johns they preferred, was not the reporter who wrote for the Alton Ledger.
3. Neither Greene's paper nor the Dispatch was the Freeport paper. The reporter who asked the candidates about government regulation of the pony express did not work for the Dispatch or the Freeport paper. Stone worked for the Jonesboro paper.
4. The one who wrote for the Freeport paper, who did not ask the question about women's fashions, was not Tyrell (who was not the one who asked the candidates if they supported a tariff on foreign buggies).
