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Newspaper

Waterloo Evening Courier

Location

Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Feb 16, 1929

Page

11

Piggy nickname sparks Peglar title bid in district race

Eddie Lansford stars for Peglar high, but teammates’ taunt of Piggy unsettles his shooting. Coach orders stop to banter as district title hopes hinge on Eddie regaining form. The team plans a steady stream of Piggy chants to desensitize him before key games.

Eddie Lansford Peglar Eddie Pigay Johns Brooksville Scottsburg Seltzer Rags McBride

Piggy's Play Lifts Seltzer as Benning Defeated 32 21

In a packed gym the team beat Scottsburg at 32 to 21, with Eddie Lansford starring against Benning. The crowd saw a fast, hard contest marked by Eddie's all‑court play and Piggy chants as the junior fought through taunts from Seltzer supporters.

Scottsburg Benning Eddie Harrison Eddie Lansford Peglar Rooters Coach Johns Jeddia

The Great Automobile Road Race Map Challenge

A road map puzzle asks readers to chart the shortest route from start to finish along sealed lines. Trace the marked roads, follow the same route twice, and identify the territory for the great automobile event. The solution appears elsewhere on this page.

Cake Recipe Listing Wins Prize in Minnie Leipsitz’s Note

A recipe for a cake titled Cake Recipe Listing Wins Prize by Minnie Leipsitz includes 34 cups sugar, 1 cup flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 14 teaspoon salt, 14 cup milk, 3 tablespoons melted shortening, and flavoring. Eggs beaten with sugar, dry ingredients folded in, milk and shortening added, then baked 15 to 20 minutes in a hot oven.

Picture Puzzle Poem Seen Old King Cole Tale

A fragment appears to reference a poem titled Picture Puzzle Poem by A. L. F. The text recalls Old King Cole calling aloud for his pipe and wonders about the scene. The readable lines suggest a nursery rhyme behavior and a playful verse voice.

King Cole

Word Completion Rhyme Letters Quest

Puzzle text traces a road race clue with Sekranic moving through numbered steps 8 15 16 27 25 24 36 38 finishing on Eddie's arm. A playful banter follows about luck, a jinx, and a bird guarding him, ending with a prompt about Eddie winning his bottle.

Sekranic Eddie Nerl Tueek

Finding Things and Keeping Order at Home

A practical note on how missing items like hats and books seem to hide when misplaced. The piece urges careful habits, a designated place for belongings, and returning items to their spots to ease finding them later.

Mother

How to Play Winning Basketball by Tom F McMullen

McMullen outlines simple approach for a small team with basic signals from the center at tipoff. Emphasizes individual effort, steady defense, and positive team conduct. Highlights unneeded crabbing between players and the captain’s role in communicating with officials.

Tom F. McMullen Oregon State College State Teachers College San Diego California

Submarine Innovation Through the Ages

The article traces the development of modern submarines from early underwater attempts in the sixteenth century to the first successful voyage by American David Bushnell in 1775. It notes Bushnell's single occupant craft, Fulton’s 1801 cigar shaped boat, Civil War and Franco Prussian era builds, and Holland's later practical design, highlighting the long history of experiments behind underwater navigation.

David Bushnell Robert Fulton France England United States America Europe Holland

Adapted Spanish bull fight on ice in scraped ring

The article describes a snow ring 30 to 40 feet wide with a banked snow wall used for an adaptation of bull fighting played on ice or snow. Two toros and two matadors compete with blankets as signals, dodging speedy charges at least ten feet away while the matadors seek to avoid being hit.

Puzzle Column Word Series Challenge Spanning Vegetables

A long puzzle page presents horizontal and vertical clues, including rascal, slow creature, Greek letter, and many abbreviations. It invites forming a word diamond around weather, linking items from waif to tomato, with a boy's name, unwilling, something else, and a pronoun forming the diamond.

Burdex Iver

Weather wordplay leads to clothing and fowl clues

A playful puzzle hides two answers within question words. Behead a question term to reveal attire and remove another to yield a domestic fowl, blending language with a light linguistic challenge.

How to Lead a Basketball Team to Victory

The article advises captains lead with calm, speak to officials, timeouts for momentum, and stall strategically with a late lead. Emphasizes defense, practice, studying rules, and building team chemistry through together play.

Unclear fragments from a clipped page

A garbled OCR fragment mentions various items and names including weather and food items like artichoke eggplant and tomato. named entities are not clear and the text lacks a coherent report or event to summarize.

Her

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