jim_carson: As much as I enjoyed the puzzle, I'm unhappy with the way the placement has worked out. The original container was a Bushwhacker single paddle tethered via rope, inside a hollowed tree trunk, attempting to tie this into one overall theme. Sadly, it was vandalized in the two weeks between when I placed it and when KittyLovers07 made the FTF. I'd dropped in a bison tube, but that kind of takes away from the PhilNi(TM) fun factor.
In the spirit of crs98's explanation of archived puzzles:
The puzzle was inspired by this news story where Google was allegedly appropriating music lyrics from the company Genius without attribution or compensation. Genius discovered this by embedding a hidden message (the keyword for this puzzle) then waited for Google to display lyrics with the hidden message in search results.
Thus, it seemed apropos to use song lyrics from Florence + The Machine's Caught, modified to make the encoding (Morse Code) unambiguous.
Hints to the encoding, include the title (the message sent in the first demonstration of the telegraph on May 24, 1844, as shown in the last character, the hint, and one of the attached images showing activity typical on 14.030MHz typical of a June Wednesday evening at 03:00z. Because Geocaching.com's site treats unicode characters inconsistently in different fields, I was unable to use the straight and curved apostrophes Genius did, so I relied on ‘ and ~ for dihs and dahs, respectively.
Each paragraph contains an encoded letter. For example, in the first paragraph ‘~‘ spells the letter R. Nine paragraphs, nine letters, REDHANDED, the keyword Genius encoded in its lyric pages.
Container was picked up on 2021-01-17.
Many thanks to the solvers - I hope you had as much solving it as I did making it.