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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1929
Page
4
A rustic guide explains distinguishing poisonous snakes by head shape and fangs, advising calm behavior in encounters. The narrator claims to avoid killing snakes except poisonous ones and to stay safe by keeping distance, noting reptiles think slowly and rarely attack unless threatened.
The Acropolis in Athens stands as the world’s famed hill once crowned by the Parthenon. Turmoil and time left the marble temples scattered, with the Parthenon used as a powder magazine in the Venetian era and now efforts aim to restore the site to reveal its ancient grandeur once more.
The piece explains month names from January to December, linking January to Janus and new beginnings, February to Februs, March to Mars, April to Aperit open spring, May to Maia, and June to Maia’s sisters. It notes Julius and Augustus gave their names to July and August, and points out September through December carry numeric roots misaligned with their positions in the year. It ends by speculating on potential calendar changes.
A fragment shows an auto demonstration scene where a speaker declares a last effort to sell the car and offers to throw in the clutch, while another character urges taking it and implies a free return. The brief line hints at a humorous or dramatic moment in a sale negotiation.
A list of names appears alongside a cooking excerpt for ORANGE CAKE by Margaret Abbott. The text includes several women’s names such as Emily Fomith Jear Munsell Elizabeth Johnson Geprtmude Kerr Ruthie M Babb Betty Roberts Dorothy Evens Edith Pfeiffer Ann Carman Vera L Darrow Bernice Smith Rose Picasso Lucille Lofstedt Mary De Vempt Dorothy Clauss Mitsuko Kimata Evelyn Pospichal and ends with cake instructions involving shortening sugar milk flour baking powder salt orange rind and flavoring. The fragmentary recipe instructs creaming shortening and sugar, adding milk and beaten egg, folding in dry ingredients, flavoring, and baking in a greased shallow pan for fifteen to twenty minutes.
A jumble lists questions and names including latitude and longitude basics, a price for mail, and a string of states and authors. It mentions New Hampshire to Georgia, Rudyard Kipling, Daniel Defoe, and a misspelled entry for Alabama.
Wise scholars say babies fear only falling and loud noises at birth. Most people grow fearful of many things, but these fears hinder effort. Caution is good, but fretful worry is a bad habit. Do your best and you can be fearless like the brave baby.
A vintage carnival style piece describes science tricks and party stunts. It explains floating a pin or coin on water using a thin film of air and outlines a paper whale toy that moves when a tiny amount of oil is placed in a notch. It includes practical cautions about conditions and handling.
A fragment describes a party stunt titled Water Stunts The Dry Immersed Hand where a host claims to reveal a water trick by dipping a hand into a pan without getting wet. The text is incomplete and lacks clear context or results.
The narration outlines how checks move between banks and are stamped by each bank that handles them. A rubber stamp endorsement shows payment by the paying bank, followed by the receiving bank’s paid stamp and date. Multiple banks may process a check before it returns to the origin.
Miss Brown praises flowers in handsome pots yet dislikes improvised containers. While browsing downtown she spots fawn colored earthenware pots like kitchen bowls and envisions artistically painted pots to enhance home windows.
A reader recalls buying a slim pot for fifteen cents and crafting a blue pot with a gold rim. They glued a colorful wall paper flower in the center after painting, sharing a neat handmade item admired by a friend in the window. Watch for the Hobby Club meeting.
We start our puzzle column this week with a picture word square containing four good words. The second clue describes a disorderly crowd the third clues tuneful sounds the fifth a small bay in the ocean and the sixth a domestic animal forming the diamond.
In a word series, the last letter of one word starts the next. Form a slice from a large room, a part of a tree, a financial institution, a mark of ate fectlony earth, and a thin strip of w
Puzzle presents horizontal and vertical clues with misspellings and abbreviations. It includes wordplay on first letters forming new terms and lists several item groups. the solution mentions pots, ovals, texts, and allot, plus a rough note about diamonds, banks, and misc.
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