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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1912
Page
12
Fragmentary OCR yields a jumble about a school, juniors and a matinee. It mentions a principal, a ride and a plan, with unclear names and events. Reading lacks coherent details but hints at a school event and younger students involved.
A narrator recalls summer adventures with Prince a brave pony. Prince astonishes crowds by marching on hind legs during a village parade then rears at a hotel steps. The tale blends circus whimsy with townspeople’s cheers as the animal shines in a bold display.
A boy named Ben struggles in near freezing water to rescue a sweater while Bert hauls with the ice. The text shifts to a lesson on fakir pictures and home craft, explaining substitutes for objects in pictures, using cloth, sand, and simple tools to create lifelike scenes and DIY art projects for doll fashions and shadow boxes.
The piece describes children making showy, inexpensive fashion and craft items from common, substitute materials while enduring a chilly skating afternoon. It follows Bert and Ben as they skate on a frozen river, Ben nearly freezing after losing his clothes and Bert pushing through fatigue to finish the race before collapsing from the cold.
Step by step instructions describe making a small sawmill from common hardware. Construct a base board, legs, a central hole, a clamped wheel and axle from a skewer, a four inch diameter iron wheel, and a belt drive from a string to power the saw blade.
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