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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1929
Page
11
A compact guide on outdoor fire practices warning that careless matches and cigarette stubs ignite wildfires. It prescribes breaking hot matches, thoroughly extinguishing cigarette stubs, and building fires between logs away from dry vegetation. Emphasizes burying or dousing the fire and never leaving a blaze unattended.
A brief instructional note explains Wiggle Drawings using a pencil flourish as the nucleus of simple outlines. It suggests a party activity with a blackboard where participants transform the wiggle into finished sketches such as a horse head, a swan neck, a flamingo neck, and a French soldier's hat.
A row of quick dismissals and odd exchanges hints at a humorous column. A boss fires a man, a boy-sized applicant speaks bluntly, and a patient seeks simple care. A teacher tests a vocabulary question about synonyms, while a student misdefines the term.
The Kitchenette column invites girls to bake after school with a lesson on drop biscuits by Mary Helen Smith. It lists 2 cups flour 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon baking powder 2 tablespoons lard 3 4 cup milk and instructions to mix dry ingredients add melted lard and milk form a thick dough drop into a greased pan bake twenty minutes in a moderate oven yielding about six servings.
The narrator recounts stadium day at Cathedral College when a ghostly legend of Stan Whitney and a crucial kick bookended a football game against State University. Fred Peters fails to replicate Whitney’s famous boot as the crowd’s hopes fade after a dramatic comeback ends in a near win.
The piece extols football's unique thrill from player contact speed and uncertainty. It urges readers to attend Saturday games, yell with enthusiasm, and remain loyal to the school team through wins or losses for collective benefit.
Next week readers will find on this page a one act play by Esther B. Olson titled The Hallowe in Party. It provides roles for boys and girls with easy stage directions and learnable speeches. Full details on costumes and settings will be given. Plan now to stage a bang up good play and ensure every participant has a copy.
Back in school we are getting riddles in lessons with an title prompting questions. The piece includes a set of five riddles about a crow furniture tails eyes Hex air China and a comparison between carbolic acid and lemon soda.
In Athens an eight sided stone tower rises above the former market area. Two thousand years ago Greeks used a water powered mechanism to measure time by filling a large stone bowl through a water pipe, functioning as an early clock without gears or hands. An aqueduct arches nearby.
A distraught President Fox was told Stan Whitney died just minutes earlier. The scene captures a moment of sudden loss prompting a pause in the event labeled To Be Continued Next Woe.
A humorous fragment shows a storekeeper offering candy at ten for a cent to a boy who wants to share with his little sister. A farm hand shovels corn husks nearby, while other items hint at classroom recitation and playful mispronunciations.
A fragmented puzzle page presents a word diamond based on football terms with horizontal and vertical clues. It includes references to a football helmet, football moves, abbreviations for time and height, and a girl’s name with an animal home as parts of the diamond. A maze puzzle invites readers to trace a non intersecting path to a goal.
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