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St. Paul Pioneer Press Winter Carnival Medallion Hunt
1971 Clues


Finder details and explanations to be provided over time.

Clue 1
Several towers of blinking lights
Over treasure area lie.
Winter scene of picturesque sights
In shapes of every size.

Clue 2
People live and teach and preach.
From age to newly born.
Wisdom and knowledge hope to reach
Before death and time to mourn.

Clue 3
Two structures lofty and high.
One more wet than dry.
Only one catches the eye.
Guess the reason why.
Referred to Whirlpool water tower, visible to the west and lifeguard tower that lay on its side on the shore or Wakefield Lake.

Clue 4
No imagination or flair too obscure.
Just a board of commissioners.
A mystery hunt should guarantee and secure,
With help of worthy parishioners.

Clue 5
Colors cool and colors hot.
Big and small size.
Pop in one, in another pop not.
Win a fine prize.
Cool green pop stand and hot red warming house, both visible from the site.

Clue 6
A round body in a game,
Corners on a plate.
A hard club to strike and tame.
Early play and late.

Clue 7
Look for signs both high and low,
Parking board and beach.
Sings to pass, to stop and go
Bring treasure within reach.

Clue 8
Limit search to public land
With North and East in mind.
Look where parks and playgrounds stand.
Recreation places find.

Clue 9
Awake on a cool and windy day
In our Carnival City.
Sear in fields of snow for pay.
Clues are keen and witty.
Wakefield Park

Clue 10
Earth and sky and frosty street.
Stage for prosperous seekers.
East and North wind join the fete
Making finders keepers.
The street north of the park is Frost Avenue. Prosperity Avenue is in the east.

Clue 11
Word carpenter rhymes with street,
Walk along side and north.
Home of east twins is clue to repeat.
Downhill to lake go forth.
Fixing Larpenteur Avenue is the starting point, the clues tells searchers to proceed alongside the Babe Ruth field and go north down to the lake.

Clue 12
Larpenteur and Babe Ruth League are names.
Look at south end of lake.
Here a two-pipe culvert our treasure site frames.
Wheel out and a fortune take.

Clue 13
The prize "Snow Foolin;" is genuine not fake.
A Medallion attached to a wheel.
North 43 paces from culvert on Wakefield Lake.
A plot to conspire and reveal.
Clues 12 and 13 spell out in detail the exact location of the Medallion.



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