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Newspaper

Waterloo Evening Courier

Location

Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jun 03, 1912

Page

5

Water Street Ghost Prank Leads to Treasure of Funds

Joe Harker Jr and Bayville boys stage a rooftop ghost hunt to expose Captain Larkin’s scheme linked to a water street house long thought haunted. The plan uncovers a hoax tied to a blackmailing rival, while the simulated specter funds a baseball association project and future business ambitions.

Sysorale Leo Warker Dayville Seuie Mr. Harker Water Street Captain Larkin Bil Larkin Reeehal Orater T Daeise Larkin Tenemat Bauxe Bayville Baseball Association Jan Joe Burke Dad Spofford Blinky Andrews Chick Samuels Ire Sherlock Holuie Spook Captain Tarkin Bayville Paseball Bud Spofford Joel Starling Mr. Jones Spofford Blinky Motheri Phil Chick Donnybrook Fair Billi Larkin Joseph Harker, Jr Captain Larki Osptsin Bill Red Durkin Red Baseball Association

Boy Potters Of A New York School

Horace Mann school students use colored clay to craft pottery from mud pies that become garden ornaments. The piece highlights how older children transition from simple dirt to shaping decorative pots and Aberdeen soil craft.

New York Horace Mann New

Pots of concrete made by York students during spring program

The article describes a York city project guided by Dr. Robert J. Leonard where boys and girls mold concrete pots using wooden frames from old wood. It outlines the step by step process from building inner and outer molds, mixing cement, compacting layers, to removing the forms after curing and coloring with mineral pigments for soft, decorative results.

York City Robert J. Leonard Industrial Art Department Sam Tip Vann Nee

Prefix Puzzle Answers From Last Week

The note recalls the prefix from last week as but and lists pictured words represented by the clues Jap burlap row burrow iden burden and dock burdock.

Burden Burdock

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Harker Bulvarkin Sione Fae Will Eastoriginment Committee Jay Samuels W.groti Billy Dea
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