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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1927
Page
12
A passage on Royal Canadian Mounted Police dangers, pursuit across vast terrain to arrest criminals or retrieve the stranded. It extols their arduous dog sled treks through freezing cold and miles of wilderness, detailing dress, equipment, and the fine purpose bred horses and trained stock.
A caller challenges readers to test themselves with questions about historical figures and terms. The piece emphasizes lifelong learning and humility, noting that no one knows it all and that those willing to learn will progress. It lists sample prompts on scabbards, Paradise Lost, Haakow, Mohammed, gun cotton, soothsayers, Americus Vespucus, and the phrase my country right or wrong.
Bill Perkins, sidelined by a crippling accident, recalls the night of the bob sled crash and his lost memory while friends try to keep him connected to baseball. Pete and Don plan for a summer diploma option, but Bill faces medical costs, paralysis, and uncertain college prospects as the high school team prepares for Drake.
A rustic method for baking beans at a lakeside camp using white beans soaked overnight then boiled, buried in a sand heated crock with syrup and optional bacon. Dig up the crock in the morning to serve, with advice to make a large quantity for future trips.
A home confinement plan uses a smooth wire between a kennel and a tree with a short chain to create a running space twice the chain length. Attach the chain to the collar and a snap to the wire so you can snap it over. A stop near the tree prevents winding. Free the dog by removing the chain.
Fragmented quiz style listing items with numbered clues and partial names. Includes hints like a sheath for a sword, John Milton, and Stephen Decatur with other garbled phrases and misprints.
Kite flying in Far China is chiefly a grown up sport with old men often seen flying elaborate kites shaped like dragons birds and insects. Children watch as youths and elders compete to down rivals by entangling or cutting strings while discussing kite skill and merit.
In ancient Rome a serving boy slips with a roast tongue and pleads pardons a lapsus lingue to win laughter, while another imitator drops a beef and is beheaded. The moral: do not imitate others.
A playful dialogue unfolds as a boy asks for his arrow and a lady offers help. The scene shifts to a car, a teacher threatens zero on a test, and the boy remains unfazed by the threat.
In a humorous tale from a bygone era, a golfing clergyman, assaulted on the links by a parishioner thirty years his senior, returns to the clubhouse unhappy. The opponent offers a grim joke about the finish and burial, while the preacher replies that even then the winner will be the other man’s hole.
A fragmentary classroom exchange shows a professor prompting students to name three articles that contain starch while a student quips about cuffs and a collar. The snippet preserves a playful tone and hints at a humor or science lesson setting.
A quirky snippet recalls a radio encounter. Carbona Zese fell in love with a radio singer from station T1-C-H who she sought by writing to the station. Wiley Ohm, the announcer, receives the letter and opens a play involving Bull Canine. Ume Lesh departs that night to Woodchuck with a passenger.
A playful prompt invites readers to complete limericks with a missing final word to rhyme with the first two lines. It encourages participation and hints the solution may appear on the page. A sample limerick about a freshman named Ed is included, inviting submissions to the Limerick Editor for possible publication.
A compact puzzle page prompts readers to identify a province from an outline map with the answer promised elsewhere on the page. It includes comic exchanges featuring Rastus and Sam about a mule and a quip on the asylum, reflecting lighthearted humor of the period.
Riddle fans are told a new series will start soon in the Boys and Girls page with better teasers that promise laughs and challenge. Readers may submit riddles to the Riddle Editor via the newspaper for possible print.
After a manual training class, Ben and Tom crafted a carved head scale and shared it with Puzzlers. The group transformed the piece into a squares division, turning it into a crossword puzzle for readers to solve.
A beaded, multi clue wordplay asks for a two word pair of homophones with different spellings and meanings. The puzzle links horizontal and vertical definitions to form a final phrase describing a means to reach a higher altitude. The beheaded form hints at a reptile. The sentence about the gold in Jewel City ends the puzzle.
Fragmentary OCR puzzle text presents horizontal and vertical clues with words like diamond elate Erie roost votes year lace item and others. The final described word square shows claw lace aces west. The source is incoherent but indicates a themed wordplay puzzle with several interlocking terms.
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