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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1929
Page
11
Children Billy and Mary create a reversible puzzle from white paper squares under mother guidance. They color, cut, and fold squares to form blue yellow and red white patterns, producing a blue yellow star and a red white figure. Rain clears as they finish and go outside to play.
How Many Dog Breeds Are There discusses 189 breeds grouped into six classes: wolf-dogs, sheep guardians, greyhounds, spaniels, hounds, mastiffs, and terriers. It notes ear shape as a key difference and cites ancient Egypt and global hunting use, with dogs described by size, strength, and role.
Five riddles test wit with playful twists about weather sight unseen and wordplay. The dialog closes with a comic medical exchange where a patient and doctor joke about a find and a fifty fifty split. The light material blends humor with wordplay and a quirky line about a $15 examination.
A banking tale explains how loan security relies on the borrower's and endorsers' means. It contrasts two men Aldeny and a friend with no property and no solid track record, versus a previous case where an endorser had property and credit, guiding banks to rely on known ability to repay when approving notes.
The Kitchenette presents a dessert recipe loved by many. Ingredients include two cups sweetened milk three yolks three cups sugar and a pinch of salt with vanilla. Heat milk, whisk in sugar and salt, temper with hot milk into eggs, cook until a thin coating forms, strain, add vanilla, and cool.
Editorial discusses school spirit as loyalty to one’s school expressed by defending its teams and scholastic reputation. It emphasizes pride without intolerance and likens school spirit to patriotism in miniature, urging balanced devotion amid competition and broader respect for other schools.
The narrative follows Cathedral College’s haunted Whitney Field after Stan Whitney’s death as Fred Peters misses a pivotal dropkick. A phantom ball traces the late star’s famed arc, and shoe tracks appear in turf. Peters confesses his near sightedness and explains using Whitney’s cleats to replicate the kick, ending with the reveal of a practical joke and insights into the ghostly spectacle.
El Comancho explains how to read animal tracks in snow mud and sand. Tracks reveal movement and intent, with rabbits dogs wolves and cows giving distinct patterns. Mastering signs lets you infer what happened and who moved where, a skill hunters use to read the landscape.
A compact list of five riddles with answers. Riddle 1 answers hailing taxicabs, Riddle 2 yesterday, Riddle 3 on physicians with worse people, Riddle 4 explaining vowels by bliss hell purgatory, Riddle 5 telephones and a pun on a telephone operator.
A college roomie who made a key kick admits rough night practice and a near collision. The speaker recalls the bump, vows to reveal the truth behind the winning kick, and notes the wider campus spread of the tale. Peters is portrayed as sharing a smaller fame with Stan Whitney.
A brief verse urges children to leave play to fetch a drink only for themselves if needed, but to serve playmates first. It highlights fairness in resource sharing at home, set around a motherly kitchen sink scene.
The article traces humanity's 500 year effort to master flight from improvised gliders to modern airplanes and Zeppelins. It notes early experiments by Besnier around 250 years ago with winged frames operated by shoulder joints, and reminds readers that early inventions often look odd but pave future progress.
Miss Brown describes touring stores when she found a round tray idea. She assembled a dressing table tray from a box lid, pasted a magazine picture inside, stretched colored material outside, stitched edges, and fitted glass from a picture-frame maker to finish the piece. She exhibits the finished tray with Shelia McTyor present.
The puzzle section starts this week with a picture word square feature. Readers will find a range of wordplay and brainteasers designed to challenge themes and vocabulary while providing light entertainment for the column.
A three letter meadow word leads to forms with fourth letters yielding jump, tree part, escape, and mo. Removing middle from cereal word yields no smile. Beheading a snare word gives a sharp blow. Two homophones omitted in the sentence. A baby clue suggests a misspelled outcome.
The crossword lists numerous clues across and down including fatigue extent of land the Mormon state solitary fountain forks verb root company abbreviations breakers Oban consumed employed bird home business transaction deepness southern state valuable fur exalted musical air exclamation existed ostrich like bird frozen water to drag with rope spool color change dispatch joint from the leg you and me South America compass point abbreviations ten Football word chains change BALL to LINE in four moves and change FOOT to KICK in five moves
The reader presents a compact set of word square and puzzle answers. It lists Leow tage ogre and weep, Lea. Leap leaf leak Tenn. Grain grin. Trap. Ball baw. Cross Word Puzzle Solution BALL bala bare fane Sine FOOT Isct lookout Mek KICK.
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