Hints for IX, 1

(Note:  Full solution at the end of the quiz, in three weeks.)

Question 1 Hint:  Abigail Adams was born on New Years Day.  That's the best way in.

Question 2 Hint: Look at certain individual letters.

Question 3 Hint:  Morty Sims. I think his middle name is Lewis.  Morty L. Sims, sounds wrong. Not a man of catholic tastes.

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