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Newspaper

Waterloo Evening Courier

Location

Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Dec 10, 1927

Page

11

Ghostly Kentville Mystery at Faversham Estate

Clay Martin and Lloyd Faversham plan a Christmas break to Kentville to learn if trustee Fabian stole their grandfather’s bonds. They travel by train and bus, face warnings about the haunted Faversham house, and grow closer as they pursue clues. Next week continues the adventure.

Clay Martin Grayson Academy Jeter Lloyd Faversham Academy Clay Lloyd Dorothy James Fabian Fabian Row Tatell Alleen Gray Ac- Cix Lloyd’s Kentville Mr. Hale Farquer Dot Grandfather Lioyd George Pyn Faversham Place Lake Shore

Laughing with a Punchline About Cured Ham Retort

A brief joking exchange features a sharp line about being dumb and a pun on ham being cured. The humor hinges on the play between insult and culinary wordplay.

Make Your Own Christmas Greetings With Simple Card Designs

A reader can craft personalized Christmas cards using colored heavy paper and simple designs. Instructions cover tearing, coloring with ink and crayons, and basic motifs like candles stockings and holly. Suggested verses offer cheerful lines about holiday joy and Santa.

Unusual DIY Gift: Thermometer Calendar on Wood Board

A simple gift idea describes making a thermometer calendar using a four by four by ten inch back board and a salvaged thermometer tube. After testing temperatures from low to high, mark the scale every ten degrees on a card, then affix the card and secure the tube to create a functional calendar thermometer.

Staining and Lacquering Wood Calendar Backing

The calendar back is glued to the lower back. For oak walnut or maple wood, a suitable stain yields an attractive finish. For soft woods use a popular lacquer color and trim with contrasting lacquer for decoration.

Mont Blanc location and Canadian city query

The questions cover Mont Blanc countries, Canada’s oldest city, author of Robinson Crusoe, definition of quadruped, drug in coffee, meaning of desultory, 1927 World Series winner and games played, and cube root of 2167.

Mont Blanc Canada

Christmas Happiness In Giving And Shopping

Editorial extols the festive mood of Christmas shopping, urging readers to focus on giving rather than receiving. It notes the joy of planning and making gifts for family, and suggests happiness lasts beyond December 25. The piece includes a quiz and a garbled closing line about a radio and frost.

Fragmented OCR sports quip on football kicks and injuries

A scrambled line asks about why many boys get killed in football games and answers with they kick off. The passage appears as a fragment about sports safety and a pun involving an outline man of a state or province.

How Electricity Makes Light In Lamps And Lapses In Wit

The article explains incandescent lamps work by resistance heating inside enclosed loops of wire. Air is pumped from bulbs to prevent burning. It notes stronger resistances glow brighter and describes simple questions about light. It also includes fragmented humor and stray anecdotes about Edith and a preacher with a phone directory.

Puzzle of Geographical Words That Stump You

A playful geography themed puzzle challenges readers with tricky place names and terms. It hints at hidden regional terms and linguistic twists designed to stump even seasoned geographers, inviting careful reading and deduction.

Travel Puzzle Clues Shape Aerial Word Hunt

A long OCR read lists US states rivers Italian mountains and city names with abbreviations. It ends with a playful geography pun and a caption promising a pictured puzzle about places and pronunciations.

Guess These Three Lakes Wordplay Closer

Puzzle prompt inviting readers to guess three lakes with a themed clue and a word-change instruction to swap EAST for WEST in three moves. A compact teaser-style item typical of a light-page feature.

Answers to Puzzles From an Eros Ard Pusale Grid

Puzzle solution list includes horizontal and vertical entries with scattered place names such as Mississippi Basle Asia and Lima plus terms like Somme Seine and Observed river names. The readable text resembles a word puzzle answer key with mixed language fragments and misordered letters.

Tiber Let Slis Ohio Saar Eras Hoa Mississippi Tap Eunn Elbe Lena Ills Basle Asia Toro Buenon Aires Romar Lima Somme Seine L. J Lake Zurich Shperier Amt Wis

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