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Newspaper

Waterloo Evening Courier

Location

Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jan 19, 1929

Page

11

How to Play Winning Basketball by Tom F. McMullen

Oregon State College star and new coach outlines passing and dribbling drills. He stresses proper grip, pivot stance, and varied passes such as chest, overhead, bounce, and one hand. Demonstrates practice formations, catching on the move, and rhythm dribbling with side and front techniques.

Tom F.mcmullen Oregon State College State Teachers College San Diego California Number

Trivia Quiz Questions From POSERS Page

The page lists multiple general knowledge prompts asking where the Potomac River empties into which bay, the Roman emperor who supposedly fiddled while Rome burned, the philosopher who died by poison, the two countries occupying the Scandinavian peninsula, the Buckeye State, the inventor of the telephone, the location of Iceland, and the definition of bicuspids.

Potomac River Rome Scandinavian Peninsula Buckeye State Iceland

Gingerbread Recipe for Page Publication Ad Dress

Gingerbread recipe given with ingredients and instructions. Includes flour molasses soda ginger cinnamon salt shortening hot water and baking guidance. Readers are invited to send recipes to Aunt Helen at Chicago address for potential publication.

Aunt Helen S. Dearborn St Chicago

Mind Reading Clock Trick From Card Table Magic Show

A party magic routine describes using an alarm clock with a scratched notch on the back button. The performer asks a spectator to set the minute hand to a number, then reveals the chosen position without looking. The back marker runs counter clockwise, hiding a covert cue for the illusion.

Beauty in Your Own Eyes

A narrator recalls a world traveler who saw beauty everywhere and concludes happiness arises from having beauty in one’s eyes and heart. The piece urges readers to notice lovely things in all places and moments, and to train oneself to find beauty wherever they are. The final panel features a touching family caption about a newborn brother and a playful father.

Mediterranean Pacific Ocean Canadian Rockies New England Nature

Answers to posers one to eight

Answers to posers follow: 1 Chesapeake Bay 2 Nero 3 Socrates 4 Norway and Sweden 5 Ohio 6 On the Arctic Circle just east of Greenland 7 Alexander Graham Bell 8 The first double pointed teeth on either side of the jaw.

Posers Chesapeake Bay Nero Socrates Norway Sweden Ohio Arctic Circle Greenland Alexander Graham Bell

Make Your Own Ice Sled Contest With Tin Sleds

The article describes building a tin sled with a rider using a forked stick and rubber band to coast on ice. It details cutting runners, shaping prongs, soldering parts, attaching the rider, and curving rear ends to hold the rubber band, aiming for the farthest travel in a friendly contest.

El Comancho Explains Squirrels Seeds and Buried Nuts

A child friendly piece explains how trees grow from seeds and how squirrels collect and bury nuts, acorns, and berries. It tracks the squirrel’s autumn nut dropping, digging holes, storing treasures, and forgetting their locations until winter hunger drives a search for buried food.

Picture Puzzle Poem By AL. F. ARCHITECT

A fragmentary verse invites readers to spell out letters forming a picture as a drawing class yields designs like a rooming house a steeple or a jail. The playful rhyme shows art and architecture themes in a single unfinished puzzle.

AL. F

Christ of the Andes Statue Marks Peace Between Nations

Across the Andes Chile and Argentina, long rivals, placed a bronze Christ statue on a high border peak to symbolize lasting peace. Unveiled March 13, 1904, the monument carries an inscription pledging to maintain the peace rather than crumble into dust.

Andes Christ South America Chile Argentina

Sounds Fishy Students discuss Tommy Tad in misfit tale

An informal exchange at Gardine School centers on Tommy and Tad's academic struggles. A prominent student questions Tad's gap in achievement while a companion notes Tommy's lagging progress and eventual dismissal.

Tommy Rigfin Gardine School Tad

Puzzle to form a four by four word square

Behead a word for active and wet to peer. Curtail a coin to yield poorly sighted. Fill blanks with the same four letters in different orders: His face turned heard the of if and he knew he MUSE sore it was too late. In a four word square the first is an eating implement, the second a musical instrument, the third a flower, the fourth a sharp. Form the square.

CROSS WORD PUZZLE DEFINITIONS AND CLUES

Definitions list for a crossword puzzle including hints like restrain quick, boy's nickname, city in Peru, to cast a ballot, decorates with festoons, abundant, red deer, measuring line, printer's measure, girl's name, search for, young cow, male sheep FI, noisily, those preferred, river linked to Shakespeare, round, explanation abr, Latin you, not in, boy's nickname, note of scale, German boy name, renown, toward the top, to escape as water an.

Peru International League

Answers to Puzzles 1 The Soda Savora Notes Vanilla

Puzzle item list presents answers and a playful dialogue. The page includes a punny exchange about diet history with Tweedle-like rhymes and wordplay. The entries feature mis-spelled or garbled words such as Savora, Spry, Dime, Pale, peal, leap, Fork, oboe, case, heen, and a final joke titled Cross Word Puzzle Solution about vegetables and earth years.

Bird dialogue on chimney spot causes playful exchange

A fragmentary exchange between two birds features one scolding the other for sitting on a chimney and getting dirty, with the second bird replying that spots are all right. The scene captures a humorous, conversational moment with vivid character voices.

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