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Newspaper

Waterloo Evening Courier

Location

Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America

Date

May 18, 1929

Page

12

The Pitcher Who Wasn't Needed A Baseball Tale

Yrenkie Lum, a farm thrower, joins Warmington High as center fielder but learns to curve. Frankie gains a shot as a pinch hitter and finally pitches in a tense Rainier game, delivering a decisive outcurve to seal the win and prove his resolve.

W. Boyce Morgan Yrenkie Lum Warmington Feld Frankie Cbac Heggerty Rainier Waite Roberts Jack ‘Sharp Frankin Tom Polonis Tom

Improving Your Tennis Game for Young Players Today

A practical guide for beginners on starting right in tennis. It covers grip, racquet choice, weight, balance, and string tension, plus forehand and backhand techniques, footwork, and keeping eyes on the ball for accuracy and consistency. Next week’s lesson will cover serving.

AS Science Sees It As Science Sees It

A reflection on how small animals struggle to survive in a hostile world filled with predators. It notes that to avoid threats, these creatures employ various strategies and schemes.

Finish the race of study and nature’s disguises

Editorial urges students to endure final weeks of school despite spring temptations. It compares study to a marathon and notes butterflies, walking sticks, and moths imitate real objects for safety, while a te kettle laments water turning to mist.

Unknown Pitcher Franks Saves Warmington Victory

Frankie, an unknown pitcher, delivers three straight strikes to finish a tense game. Warmington wins 8 to 6 as Frankie silences critics and earns praise from Coach Haggerty. He hints at a desire to play center field if needed.

Warmington Haggerty Frankie

Spooky King Tut Finger Trick Shocks Young Magicians

A magician demonstrates a box containing the forefinger of King Tut, claiming it is ancient. The lid lifts to reveal a living seeming finger resting on cotton, which is revealed to be the performer's own finger.

King Tut

Finger Box Trick Described For Secret Exhibition

A vintage trick description explains pushing a finger through a hole in a box bottom, padding with cotton to leave an impression. The performer then secretly inserts the finger again to reveal the effect when demonstrating the illusion.

Kleaner Kit for Quick Spot Cleaning of Clothes

A vintage instruction piece promotes a homemade cretonne Kleaner Kit to remove stains. It details cutting two cretonne pieces, sewing pockets for cleaner and sponges, adding a blotter pocket, and mounting on a closet door. The method emphasizes blotter use to absorb excess fluid and a dry sponge to lift remaining marks.

Iam Gay Cretonne

NUT BARS RECIPE BY SELENA RILEY

A hand written style recipe for NUT BARS by Selena Riley. Ingredients include shortening sugar almonds and a lemon or almond extract, eggs and milk, flour baking powder and salt. Method describes creaming, mixing, rolling dough, cutting bars, egg wash, nuts, and baking about 15 minutes.

Baxe

Guess These Four Tennis Players Hidden Names

The riddle hides a bird name in the line about the sea and moon. Four scrambled city names must be rearranged: THEN CAREMS becomes multiple letters of a city, SEDLE unscrambles to a city, VOROPLILE to a longer city, and STORBIL to another.

Carems Sedle Voroplile Storbil

Answers to Puzzles Item Showing Crossword Solutions

Puzzle page fragment lists crossword solution titles and puzzle answers. Names include Tilden LaCoste Wills Hennessey and terms like diamond words and NET clues amid a list of cities Manchester Leeds Liverpool Bristal.

Tilden LaCoste Wills Hennessey Bagie Manchester Leeds Liverpool Bristal

Secretive trickster flicks finger from box described

A performer lifts a box showing a finger rested on cotton as three fingers appear. The act ends with the box tucked away. A boy remarks the ham was bought yesterday and mischief echoes about curing and relapses. A diner notes a soup button, an ex-printer jokes about a typographical error versus mutton.

Walter

Ginger the dog enters alley with a clever bite line

A brief quip introduces a new dog named Ginger in the alley. The joke lands on a pun as Ginger snaps while implied friendly.

Ginger

Tennis Puzzle Column Teases Word Diamond Theme

The puzzle column explains a figure of three tennis balls and offers word games and clues. It presents a diamond formed by a word chain on tennis themes, with tasks like changing LOB to NET and BALL to LINE, plus four famous tennis players to guess.

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Wale Roberts Jack Sharp Waite Ed Smith Jack Altho Art Belden Holiie Anni Warrington Belden Franke Lum Rainie Jock Sharp Hus Wey Bry Foot Wight Editorial Ste Frankle Adventures OF Peter Pen BY Nick Nichols Dmide Nichols Lester Jester Kleaner Nanki Field Rose Wr By Selena Riley Olinger Scotland State of Equality
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