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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1928
Page
12
A vintage DIY note explains making a bamboo and pill bottle pen with a cork for neat writing or poster use. It describes shaping bamboo, sealing with paraffin wax mix, and preparing a through channel for ink. It also lists riddle answers such as An egg and other clues.
Riddles appear on the page with playful clues and author bylines. Entries include Dorothy Bele Thurman Barah Frances Williams Mary Hague Annie Belle Weaver and Paul Christiansen offering humorous questions about bones on dogs vines monkeys and ark cards.
A list of eight challenge questions covers topics from asbestos origin to gravitation, mistletoe beginnings, and city provinces. The set invites teachers to score six of eight weekly prompts as a 76 percent passing benchmark.
A renowned cartoonist explains how action energizes cartoons. He shows readers to bend joints for movement, avoiding stiff figures, and emphasizes that motion comes from dynamic posing rather than static lines.
This piece explains sound as air waves from vibrations and describes how a phonograph record is created with a steel needle tracing dents in wax. It connects vibrations to hearing via the ear drum and notes drawing tips to convey motion with speed lines and shadows. It ends with a cartoon line about a box car and engine chasing it.
The text explains tiny living organisms seen only under a microscope, called microbes or bacteria. It distinguishes pathogenic bacteria that cause sickness from harmless non pathogenic ones and describes their roles in dairy, yeast fermentation, vinegar, and cheese production.
Vermont readers learn about dangerous microbes and their diseases. The guide places cholera bacteria in circle one left, tuberculosis in circle two, typhoid in circle three, and lockjaw in circle four. It warns that any cut bruise or puncture can let bacteria enter the blood and endanger children, urging home reporting after injuries.
The famous London fire dog Bob leaps onto the ladder truck at calls and enters burning rooms nose to the floor. He locates trapped victims and signals firefighters, guiding rescues from a fourth story window into a safety net. He faced burns but persevered.
The readable text lists jumble clues and partial solutions such as words at various positions and a picture word set. It mentions puzzles like a ladder or pyramid with terms including barb, area, reel, ball and a vertical hint chain.
Instructional techniques from a Chicago Y M C A World Champion bantam and featherweight guide readers through chancery and back heel, half Nelson, side roll and further Nelson holds with cautions on neck control and leverage illustrated for practice and safety.
In the Harz Mountains Germany climbers see their own shadows cast on clouds before them. The light and cloud conditions cause shadows that move and morph, appearing to shift shape and size as the climber stands on a cliff ledge.
A reflective note on how easily beauty and friends are forgotten as seasons change. It urges action over knowledge, reminding readers that flowers buried under the snow symbolize beloved things we must use and cherish rather than overlook. The piece contrasts sunny days with looming clouds and urges mindful living.
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The article describes how water gains flavors from minerals and additives. It mentions bottled waters like Vichy Appollinaris Lithia and Sulphur Springs waters, artesian wells from Artois France, and the process of making soda water from marble cast with acid. It also explains distilled water as steam condensed after heating.
A quirky collection of puns and vignettes features a jokey dialogue about million dollars and butter on bread, a cartoon style exchange about a sandwich and a paper weight, a doctor noting a water filled ear from a delivery boy, and a gag about a husband’s death under a train.
Readers tackle a dense puzzle page with clues ranging from lighting device to Indian river, plus word chains and a word pyramid. The column teases several easy series, a few challenging anagrams, and themed wordplay involving pronunciation shifts and clues about warmth and speed.
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