The Old Ad Mystery Cache

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Hidden : 5/6/2011
Difficulty:
4 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Historical mistery for those who are interested in Riga's history.

At the given coordinates You will not find the Cache.

In order to find the Cache You have to solve the task
 When you are going to build your new house or to repair an existing one, you need to buy a lot of things such as bricks, concrete, tiles and many others building and finishing materials. Where can you find all this stuff? The best way is to open a newspaper with advertisements and to look for things you need.
And now let's go back to the very beginning of the 20th century, somewhere in May of year 1901, and look at this advertisement taken from one of Riga's newspapers:
You have to find a newspaper and this advertisement inside it to find out the location of J.Walter's factory shop.

The cache itself is film box with logbook and pencil inside.
The coordinates of container are: NXX XX.X34 EXXX XX.X50
The missing digits You will determine having the shop address.
You can find out stairs made by this factory in some buildings in Riga till now. Please see attached pictures.
Happy caching!
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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

gnfx: Evtn Bofreire pnpur: zntargvp

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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