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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1929
Page
13
A serialized banking feature explains why banks are the safest place to store money. It discusses guarding vaults with concrete walls, steel doors, electric alarms, police bells, and the risk of carrying cash. It also recounts simple anecdotes of savings and the benefits of banking for children and families.
A simple project outlines making a sandwich board and knife as a gift for a handy boy. Use a ten cent dough board, cut with a coping saw, shape and sand edges, paint a stripe orange, handle blue, and finish by painting a cheap bread knife with orange and blue after smoothing.
A collage of puzzle items includes a banana cake recipe by Mary Kathryn Miler with butter sugar eggs sour milk flour soda and bananas. It also hides a word rearrangement puzzle linking people to places and several word chain and crossword challenges with numerous fragmented clues and an eventual solution set.
The fragment presents eight paired names or subjects including Joan of Arc with Orleans, the Duke of Wellington with Waterloo, Abraham Lincoln with Gettysburg, Charles Lindbergh with St Louis, Gov Alfred E. Smith with New York, Helen 2nd Trev, Nero with Rome, and Harold Lloyd with Hollywood.
The piece argues using a folded paper as a metaphor for breaking a big goal into reachable milestones. Start with a nearby point on the mountain, work toward it, and feel pride at each notch. This approach applies to daily life and distant ambitions, providing motivation and encouragement as goals are approached step by step.
A campfire story recounts a hunter attempting to photograph a bear by laying a thread across a trail. The bear detects the thread with its nose and avoids the trap, proving the animal's superior sense of smell. Despite repeated tries, the photographer cannot outwit the bear, who remains ten feet from the thread. The narrator reflects on the bear’s sharp nose and notes his own failed methods.
A carved cliff lion near Lucerne by Thorwaldson commemorates the Swiss Guards who died defending King Louis XVI during the Paris mob attack of August 10, 1792. The sculpture, though not his best work, is his best known and preserves the guards' memory for travelers.
The fragmentary note describes efforts to finish a hymn with felters found within a drawing. It suggests archival clues or marginal markings guiding the completion, but the text remains incomplete and unclear about specific names or actions.
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