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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1928
Page
11
A linguistic excerpt defines KOK SHUT and related terms with pronunciations and meanings. It covers KONAMOX KONCE KONCH CHICK AMAN KWONESCUM KWONESUM and HALO MUCKAMAGE, detailing how each word expresses states like togetherness, inquiry, or perpetual action, in a dated phonetic description.
A short guide promotes fudge making as a summer side business for girls. It gives a simple recipe using sugar milk cocoa butter and notes to cool and beat before setting in a tin. It suggests wrapping portions at five to ten cents to earn about forty five to fifty cents per pound with low cost per pound. It ends with a tongue twister dialogue about mispronounced eyeglasses.
The reader lists odd phrasing and riddle style lines about skyscrapers cold water elephants trunks germs and a prodigal son home run, presenting a collage of pun style questions and answers without clear context or cohesive narrative.
A reader describes Salisbury Plain as a remarkable stone circle complex near the town of Salisbury in England. An outer circle about 160 feet across encloses a secondary ring of 80 feet, with a horseshoe of upright stones inside facing the sunrise alignment. Standing inside the horseshoe and gazing through the opening toward a distant stone, the sun rises in line with the viewer each morning. The stones, placed long ago, are largely fallen or moved, and their builders and date remain uncertain though estimates place them around 1480 B C, possibly by ancient Druids as a sun temple.
A concise guide explains making a simple Japanese ball trick using a logk at the illustration and a square block as a substitute when a ball is unavailable. The instructions note the jigger can be constructed and held to perform the illusion.
A compact description explains a string and ball trick. Place a ball on the string and tighten to start and stop. Align string perpendicularly, release slight pressure to move, and tighten to lift. Tie knots at each end to prevent slipping.
Describes saddles, decorations, and gear used on camels in North and East Africa. Notes leather pommels, bead work, cowrie shells, and nose rope reins. Mentions ornate wedding camels and the decorative patterns used in these elaborate saddles.
In Ferriston during mid-summer, four high school sophomores Bob Miler Red Hopkins Bill Jenkins and Porky Jones join a road crew building a new highway. Porky arrives late but makes the truck, and the boys endure a dusty muddy shift. Tension with Len Akers flares after a water incident as the crew works toward the distant road project.
The article urges providing water during heat for people dogs birds and other animals. It notes the body loses moisture through perspiration and animals need extra water when dry spells occur. A pan of water in the yard invites birds to bathe and splash, offering enjoyment and aid in cooling.
This puzzle brief asks five quirky questions about perception and language plus a biblical reference to baseball. It plays on wordplay and cultural stereotypes in a light humorous tone.
A guide suggests party questions printed for guests with personal answers kept separate. Laborers witness a muddy wreck where a paymaster and another man emerge with money from a car lantern and rifle in hand, as the scene attracts curious onlookers. the tale continues next week.
This puzzle describes a word diamond built around popular summer places. The second ring yields a sleeping place, the third a corner of a ball diamond, the fifth a kind of hate, and the sixth a pig pen.
Five clues yield a single five letter word square. Birds choose in spring, the Hawaiian for goodbye, a small gift, to choose for office, and the bringer of gifts at Christmas. The sentence hints at homophones with similar sounds but different meanings.
A scrambled word puzzle featuring both horizontal and vertical clues. The puzzle includes definitions for items like the warm season and tools for rowing, plus several short abbreviations and a mix of decorative terms. The solution hints reference words such as bases and derby and note themed word groups across the grid.
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