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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1928
Page
17
AS SCIENCE SEES IT explains that plants breathe as living beings do but differently from animals. Plants exchange gases through leaf skin rather than lungs or windpipes, and the leaf surface appears thin and translucent yet reveals a complex inner structure under a microscope.
The article describes leaf skin divided into irregular cells with stomata as small openings that exchange gases. It notes up to 65 000 to 500 000 stomata per square inch, compares plant and animal respiration, and explains how leaves absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen while supporting aquatic life in a fish bowl.
A set of brain teasers asking why Barnum rode ten horses with twenty four feet total in New York City, why an umbrella seems strange, what happens when a lighted match meets water at forty five degrees, which profession is a post man, and when a boat resembles a heap of snow.
A humorous collection of worst jobs and absurd stunts opens with drills in macaroni and buttered rat holes. A Scottish football match stalls as players search for a tossed penny, provoking comic banter about outcomes.
A colonial era linguistic excerpt outlines Kwass and Klosh pronunciations and meanings. It covers fear expressions, approval terms, and possessive forms like Klootchman meaning woman and kin terms. A quipsy ending anecdote contrasts wages in a humorous digression.
A historical note traces platinum from Soviet Russia to jewelry and common goods. It describes early mining, limited use in Russian coins, and later high cost in jewelry as supply dwindled. German buyers reportedly scooped up most available platinum, leaving scarce stock worldwide.
A word game where each riddle answer is the surname of a celebrated British author such as Wells. Questions include pits that yield water, what fire does, a Yon animal, and others. The page presents garbled text and partial answers, suggesting a puzzle feature with an answer key referencing authors.
In the southwestern United States Spaniards explored and settled much of Texas Arizona New Mexico and California during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries They established missions that served as churches centers of settlement and aid to travelers They provided food shelter clothes and even money and acted as schools and agricultural hubs Fortified by Spanish and Meslican styles the missions varied in construction from adobe to stone Some remain intact while others are partially ruined The San Antonio mission pictured stands as a relic of this early civilization.
A reflective piece urges children to help mothers during vacation, showing small acts like drying dishes, mowing, and keeping meals on time can ease a mother’s load. It recalls Jonica Texas’s founding by friars and notes the San Antonio riverbank origin of the city. Also includes light humor on high school expectations and a pair of quick exchange quips about car collisions and a pedestrian.
A compact compilation of figured answers naming Wells, Burns, Wilde, Steele, Walter, Swift, Gray, Lamb and Charles with associated initials and ordinals. The list shows 1 Wells, 2% Burns, 4 Wilde, 4 Steele, Walter, 6 Swift, 7 Gray, 3 Lamb.
A short guide explains a better method for water throwing. By cutting and flattening an old tin can, hold it with the full side on top and sweep it over water to fling a jet forward, achieving greater distance than cupping hands.
An instructional note explains center of gravity and balance using simple objects. A cardboard shape balanced on a pin demonstrates stable equilibrium, while a pencil balanced on a fingertip shows extreme instability. Adding weight to edges can convert unstable into stable equilibrium.
All you enthusiasts should enjoy this week’s crossword. The puzzle has tricky handles with little cross word help, but the rest remains approachable for solvers.
A fragmented puzzle text outlines horizontal and vertical clues about tennis terms and word transformations. It includes instructions to form a four word square and to swap Love with Game and Ball with Line, with several partial answers and misprints.
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