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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1927
Page
12
H L Gebhardt of the Y M C A shares diving basics for beginners. The article covers back dives front jackknife and back jackknife, focusing on posture, timing, entry, and safety. It explains arch height, head position, board height effects, and emphasizes practice and gradual progress.
A moral exhortation recalls a wise saying to avoid carelessness in deeds and words. It urges neatness in dress, preparedness for school, clear speech, and orderly marching, reminding that action backs words and that wisdom lies in doing.
A playful quiz prompts readers with questions about states, authors, nicknames, and cinema. Items include which state is the Wolverine state, the Prairie state, the author of Alice in Wonderland under Lewis Carroll, and nicknames for Jack the Giant Killer and the sage of Monticello, plus Babe Ruth and The Black Pirate leading roles and league info.
Sour milk. When it is turned into a field. Because it holds 2 gallon. Ateans too green (812 Green) 86 A battery, &7. Heads, $8 Rinited-untied. Lyre. On the side of his head.
The text reads like a garbled list mixing Michigan Illinois Charles interhige Jodson Randolph Dis raeli Jefferson New York Yankees American and Douglas Fairbanks. It presents no coherent event or clear report to summarize.
Suggestions to Fred Neher hotel Sherguhn Sherwin Ave Chicago. Local note presents light film recommendations for youth with a playful tone and period voice, aiming to guide after school entertainment and social gatherings.
The Conquerors Club hatches a plan to sell circus balloons for six cents each, earning a dime, with fifty balloons sold granting a free show pass. Despite an initial bank of one dollar sixty five, they quickly raise capital and sell many balloons, aiming to raise two dollars per member and gain entry to the parade and show.
The Conquerors Club boys try selling gas filled balloons during a parade but alter plans to fill with gas at home. A mock lion scare causes a crowd stampede, Porky loses balance and balloons float away. Profits evaporate as the group laments missed show entry and wasted effort.
A list of riddles and authors is presented with playful questions numbered 81 to 90. Entries include solutions and names such as Luella Baumann Thomas Gagiardo Robert McCarney Leslie Juda and others. The item reads like a light column of puzzle snippets and attribution from a newspaper quiz page.
Do You KNOW Mow FLANGE Many people think that a train is kept on the rails by the flange or rim that is on the inside edge of the wheel. The rail is slightly rounded on top, as is the rim of the car wheel, so that the wheel does not rest squarely on the rail. The outer circumference of the wheel is smaller than the inner and the wheel rests on the inner slope of the rounded rail. In running the wheels press outward because it is easier for them to run along the smallest edge and on top of the rail. By pushing outward and exerting the same force in opposite directions the wheels keep each other balanced and on the rails.
A garbled page of limericks and quips imitates a late 19th or early 20th century humor crowd. It includes a poodle Pete tale about meat theft, a boy at vaccination and bandage, a schoolyard fear line, a clever improvisation about bandaging the other arm, a wandering serenade joke, and a capricious “The Missing Worst” closer. The fragments mix playful verse with brief captions and streetwise banter.
A playful travel tale filled with replaced place names maps to a hidden word square. Three friends wander from Cape to river to island while chasing maps of cities and seas, ending with a harmless twist and a light geography puzzle for readers.
A hidden boy's name is found spelled backwards in the sentence. They heard that old Lora had gone back to the farm.
A readable puzzle list appears with horizontal clues including Pageant Scheme Wireless Neuter pronoun slang for hob golf shot kind of cloth loud report cut out either preposition make amends large group evil deeds and vertical clues such as Vessel same as 17 horizontal linger pastry exclamation cranny dangerous growth in the body plus a series of numbered entries and a final note East Indies abbreviated and other dictionary style hints.
The reader provides solved puzzle lists including Word Story completions with Chili May James Charles Henry Rome Fear Breast Brest Good Hope Buffalo Moosehead Bear Cod Orange Sandwich Turkey Skye Black Green Lookout Hartz Copenhagen. Also lists word square and erosa puzzle terms with scattered entries and partial correctness notes.
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