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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1926
Page
15
The Riddle Editor invites readers to submit original riddles for printing. Names and hometowns accompany each joke, with quirky questions about sun, noon, and jailors among others. Submit new riddles to the Riddle Editor care of this newspaper.
A reader shares a home mirrors cleaning method using dampened paper, whiting dust, then chamois for shine. An artist recalls vellum art costs and Italy papercraft, noting vellum origins and the history of paper making from ancient times to modern pulp process.
A small cone shaped piece of tin or tardboard can enable a magician to perform a disappearing trick. Attach an elastic to the bone and fasten the other end to the shirt sleeve under the coat. The cone is concealed in the palm, using two identical handkerchiefs.
A magician explains small receivers placed in coat pockets to vanish and reappear a handkerchief. One device hidden in a pocket is waved about, the cone is released, the handkerchief vanishes into the sleeve, then reemerges from the concealed pocket as if it were the same item.
The Atlantic Monthly printed stories by Charles Egbert Craddock unknowingly, written by Mary Noailles Murfree. The author’s reveal in Boston shocked Howells and launched a dialect era in American fiction.
A fragmented text fragment discusses lessons and jokes, referencing questions 151 152 183 and trivia about marriage and weather. It juxtaposes crowd etiquette with a humorous line about watches and wells and ends with a reflection on literacy and education.
Readers from Lake Point Utah Elston Missouri and McDonald Ohio send in pet anecdotes with photos. Frank Drury’s squirrel roams his roof and fetches lettuce while performing tricks when summoned. Myrene Collett’s dog June plays ball and begs at doors. Uncle Dad’s cat Kitty is a polite mouser with few teeth.
The piece cites Franklin on money and urges youths to value thrift. It notes many spend all they have, but saving now leads to more leisure and better times years later, urging steady saving and prudent use of allowances.
A brief comic exchange shows a warning from an old lady and a tramp’s reply about a rug beating. In a modern version a father asks Mary to recite Sunday School, and she quips The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not worry.
A college professor’s lecture made a student fall asleep and drew a wry exchange with the neighbor. The professor urged the neighbor to wake the sleeper, and the neighbor quipped that the sleeper had been awakened by the neighbor’s own words.
A report notes GOOFEY MOVIES last week with Hattie the Pearl Diver recovering four pearl jewels. Solitary Sam and 4 others allegedly conspired to steal Hatsiee’s pearl while a naval officer goes ashore for a palm tree walk under the sun.
Meavutive Solitary Sam perfects his plan to steal the pearl. He trains a pet monkey to do the deed.
Pat visits a drug store to buy an empty bottle and negotiates a price with a talking clock. The clock offers the bottle for five cents unless Pat brings in something to put into it, then the bottle is free. Pat approves and offers a cork to seal it.
A playful science note explains that if all living beings reproduced endlessly the world would crowd beyond capacity. It cites a chicken heart experiment where the organ doubles in size with continued feeding and concludes growth could fill the world in about fourteen years.
Raymond Aymond reluctant to dance at the graduation party is urged by his teacher Miss Manville. She encourages him to try a waltz, guiding him to the floor. He miraculously finds the rhythm and performs several dances, earning pride from his mother and peers.
A retrospective look at children’s dolls across eras and cultures. Egyptian wooden and bronze figures were buried with their young owners, while crocodile dolls, Dutch wooden dolls, Eskimo sealskin dolls, and Japanese dolls with varied wigs show global styles and techniques.
The passage presents a set of poser style questions about cake testing astronomy mythology geography and language with garbled answers. It cites a cake test straw test for doneness and mentions Rosa Rnisa and Styx with unclear context. It also references order from a la carte and descriptions of Lake Lucerne and Switzerland and a摸 pale yellow dull tone.
Cecille Lyon presents a larger Word Squarette puzzle with refined definitions designed to challenge readers. The column invites feedback on the new size and difficulty level while promising engaging word play and enjoyment.
A fragmentary puzzle item describes Word Squarettes where six six letter bases form a square. Clues include pronoun, animal, space, emits vapor, gathers, joyous past tense, flakes of ice, a number, time, frightened, hard substance, noisy, terminates, whirlpool, and beheadings yielding enamoured and related forms.
A puzzling prompt asks for a word meaning a place that answers to beheading it. It uses a six letter set rearranged to fill two-word phrases with identical sound but different spellings and meanings, linked to a grocery and laundry line, plus a summer home lacking woods.
Puzzle fragment lists items across several sections with mixed letters and words. It mentions In the Squarettes, vertical clues, and a set of terms including snow, area, and words like diamond fat ob ble haste. It ends with a note on pictured auto terms such as hood, crank, brake.
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