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Newspaper

Waterloo Evening Courier

Location

Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jun 15, 1929

Page

11

Pine Tree Puzzle and Tennis Tips From Old Newspaper

A feature combines a children's Pine Tree Puzzle by Emily Linssley with an early tennis guide by Manuel Alonso and R. Lindley Mumray. The Pine Tree activity shows sixteenth colored squares forming blue tops of pines, with back color patterns and a back view reveal. The tennis piece advises variety, opponent study, shot placement, and net strategies to win points, including doubles play and forcing shots.

Manuel Alonso R. Lindley Mumray

Puzzling wordplay and mixed answers puzzle page

A page of riddles and a jumble of answers. It presents five wordplay questions about weary people alphabets cities lovers and clergy with humorous solutions and a listed set of associations linking famous names to places.

Learn About Birds Trees And Flowers This Summer

Editorial encourages youths to study native birds trees and wild flowers during summer trips. Visit the library before travel to borrow books or articles, then identify flora and fauna on country trips to gain knowledge and enjoyment.

Assorted Cookies by Magdaline Furangi

Recipe fragment for cookies titled Assorted Cookies by Magdaline Furangi. Lists ingredients flour sugar baking powder lard eggs vanilla and milk. Describes mixing creaming, kneading, shaping dough and baking in a hot oven with directions scattered and incomplete.

Magdaline Furangi

Posers Bach of the famous authors in the column on the left

A playful column links famous authors to distant places, pairing Henry Scotland with Washington Irving and Rudyard Espling with New York City, while other names map to locales like London, India, the Catskills, Arden, New Orleans, Alaska, and more. The wit concludes with a jest about Pat and the gallows as a rider seeks a witty punchline.

Henry Ja New York City Irving The Catskills India London Alaska Cattle New

The Boy Who Couldn't Lose at Lake Cameron

Dave Shade, star of North Side Tennis Club, loses to friend Johnny Albert and faces a club suspension for poor sportsmanship. He retreats to Lake Cameron with his family, forgets the quarrel, gains popularity for his court skill, and meets Madge Olney, a recruited rival who asks for coaching as Betty notes tensions about declined matches and social expectations.

Dave Shade North Side Johnny Albert Dave Jonny Johnny Betty Lake Cameron Baty Pitt Madge Olney Gut Ne Tenniis Marige Madge Cme the- Bird France Eastern University Made Macdge Bethy Shia Ter

Make a rubber band powered comet toy from odds and ends

Instructions detail building a four wheel rubber band powered comet with four wheels driven by windup bands. Use gallon can covers as wheels, tin bearings, and a wooden board to mount axles. Wind bands evenly, set on a smooth surface, then release to coast. Paint wheels black or yellow and body white.

Checks and the bank as explained to boys and girls

A father explains to his son Carl how a check works, stressing that a check is not money until properly signed and verified by the bank. The story covers signature validity, bank records, and the need for funds to exist to honor a check, illustrating why a signed check is only an order on the bank.

Gail Carl Fanny Crit Sheca Carl Anderson

Do You Know These Indian Tribes

Riddled sentence asks to identify tribes and a hidden animal. It then describes a word-series puzzle where the last letter of each word begins the next word. The challenge requests a sequence forming a poet, unlighted, a monarch, happiness, extremities and a fiat eces of stone.

Betty and Dave Plan Morning Surprise Game

Betty persuades Dave to join a morning game as a surprise. After Mave changes clothes, Betty smiles and writes a jubilant letter. The scene ends with “Johnny Abert, To Be Continued Next Work.”

Betty Dave Mave Johnny Abert

Puzzle column about the buffalo and word play

The piece presents a buffalo themed puzzle column with a puzzle diamond around the animal, a list of clues for words including relating to growth, era, and positions, and a teaser about three Indian tribes’ names to guess.

Answers to Puzzles from a Historic Page

Puzzle answers listed include Cross Word Puzzle Solution as item one. The diamond sequence yields five letters B sum safes buffalo meaty sly. Tribes named include Crows Blackfeet and Apaches. The animal identified is buffalo. The list ends with Bard dork king glee entis stab as additional puzzle fragments.

Bard Dork King Glee Entis Stab

Mr Jones Mystery Visit At Professors Home

A magazine solicitor rang a professor Jones home doorbell. Eight year old Wille answered and said he was Mr Jones or asked if they wished to see old Man Jones. The scene plays on the idea of Frecociousness in offspring of professors.

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