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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1928
Page
8
Riddles prompt playful battles in March contrasting winter and summer battles. Includes five brain teasers with wordplay and a Hindu Flower Miracle trick: instructions to hide a cork and wire contraption in a jar to make a flower rise as water fills the container.
A reader notes a Chinook word list defining CHEE for new or recent, CHINOOS with CH pronounced as Church, and terms like COLE for cold with gradations. It includes phrases for brown bear ITSWOOT, tobacco words such as CHIN NOQOQ and MUCK A MUCK, and mentions STICK CHIN OOS as a cigar, with a promise of more terms in a future issue.
Step by step guide to crafting a fabric lined treasure chest from a packing box. Directions cover dimensions, lining, pockets, hinges, hasp, padlock, lacquering, and finishing touches to secure contents and create a decorative finish.
In a humorous exchange, a young guest cannot eat the soup due to missing a spoon. Walter is asked to bring another dish, while the father probes the reason. The child explains the lack of a utensil and the mispronounced soups echo a playful misunderstanding.
A quirky sequence of personified items offers snappy, era flavored replies. The dialogue showcases playful attitudes toward everyday objects and a judge weighing in with a curt assessment.
The narrator describes his craving for pirate tales sparked by Uncle Ed and a teacher Miss Meloy who coaxed him to write a fuller account. He recounts growing up with pirate stories, his sister Beth, and letters from Uncle Ed about Rocky Island off Florida where Ed lived with Harold Parsons and his sister Louise. A summer visit to meet Bill Drake, Ed’s nephew, seems on the horizon as the tale opens.
A humorous meditation on March as an undependable month and a playful warning that people who resemble March in unreliability should be avoided. The piece contrasts March with spring’s promise and winter’s departure, urging readers to choose steadier models.
The piece explains freckles as pigment spots from sun exposure as a train trip ends in Cypress City. The voyage to Rocky Island follows, with Uncle Ed meeting the travelers, a harbor ride in a speedboat named Louise, and a swift crossing to a rocky shoreswelcome.
This week features a closed word puzzle hidden inside Mara’s helmet. It contains two cycles of war related words themed around struggle between winter and summer.
A newspaper style puzzle presents a horizontal and vertical word chain with clues for a March themed pyramid. It asks to transform GAIN to LOSS in six moves by changing one letter at a time and notes vertical words including left to right near, steal, and an abbreviation for a business firm.
The line uses Taissing like sounds that differ in meaning as it suggests a raid by zero dot two dot com on a captain with Onenees troops ready to attack, highlighting potential misheard names and actions.
Puzzling set lists horizontal and vertical clues with fragmented words and names. Islands Canary Sand wich Cuba Shetland are cited alongside scattered terms like drum hat lion fib rid and can include Rob Co pairings and other partial entries from a worn prosaic page.
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