Perth

An Acme detective says, "Acting on an anonymous tip, I broke into a back room at the Post. Laid out in type was a message that gave crucial information for decoding a secret message in an upcoming radio broadcast. I stole the type and set fire to the office in order to conceal the theft. Unfortunately, the columns of the message got scrambled. You'll need to reconstruct it quickly because the broadcast is sometime tomorrow morning."

Here are the type columns:

D D E E E E E I I I K L N N N O O S T T T W
E N A H L R S A I P N W E E I C N T A H L E
I Y N O T M R P N N E K H I H A I W H I G N
T C E R S E L L A H P R A S O A V N L D E E
A H S R L E N W T N I T T R E E T W T O S E
E T M R X H N O I R A W O D T R F T O H W O

Archivist's Note: At hunt time, the solution to the above would lead you to the following content:

"I'm going to give you 2 rhyming words. You give a 3rd word that can follow each of mine to complete a compound word or familiar 2-word phrase. For example, if I said "Wish" and "Fish," you'd say BONE (as in Wishbone and fishbone)."

  1. Early, Whirly
  2. Pool, School
  3. Band, Grand
  4. Fair, Stair
  5. Knot, Pot
  6. View, Dew
  7. Cue, Screw
  8. Jack, Crack
  9. [a triple] Dead, Head, Bread

Solution