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Newspaper

Waterloo Evening Courier

Location

Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Oct 06, 1928

Page

12

The Fumbled Pass A Football Serial Conquerors Tale

Mr J S Ferris a millionaire returns to Ferriston to support the school football team which won county honors last year. The Conquerors Club stars Bob Miller Bill Jenkins Porky Jones and Red Hopkins power the backfield while Red is injured. Alex Pettle fills in as captain, but a string of setbacks including Red's injury and Bob Mil lers infected finger threaten the season as Fayette and Mount Sacha loom. Coach Edwards urges fair play and resilience as the team salvages games with substitutes while Ferris promises a new field if the county title repeats.

J. S. Ferris Ferriston Conquerors Club Bob, Miller Bil Jenkins Porky Jonesy Red Hopkins Fayette Ferris Edwards Red Hopkinga la Red Alex Pettle Gams Alexia Bill Bob Fermlnton Bob Miller Red Oaks Fayalla Edwarda Conded Pete Patten Gale Porky Ferricton Fallacora Alex Stan Ochs Bht

Color With Your Crayons Strengthen Calendar Craft

A playful activity guides young artists to color a decorative calendar using color hints marked on the drawing. Cut out the calendar and mount it on cardboard, punch holes at the top, lace colored cord, and hang it to always know the date.

Flint

Chinook Olm Trappers Language Glossary

A compact excerpt on Chinook jargon including terms like No, WAKE Not, WAPATO for potato, WAUM for warm, WIND for wind, YIEM pronoun, YAKWAHTIN stomach, YOWAH here or there, and sample numerals. It notes pronunciation, meanings, and basic usage in a linguistic context.

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Why are fish well educated in this riddle set

This weekly puzzle collection toys with wordplay and playful questions about animals and objects. Each item plays on language and common phrases, inviting clever puns and humorous twists.

Noah

Day Dreams and Grounded Ambition Lesson

A reflective piece discusses day dreams as fuel for ambition while warning they must not replace daily effort. It urges balancing hopeful visions with practical work, noting late hints of sportsmanship and a humorous map joke from a period cartoon vignette.

Best He Could Do in Street Horse Beating

A passerby witnesses a truckman assaulting a horse in the street. The woman calls for humanity, and the driver retorts that today he has only vegetables and fruit.

Tangle Diving Beauty Joke Exchange in Classroom

A playful exchange in a classroom features a teacher presenting a zebra image and asking what is thin. A pupil replies with a pun about a horse in a bathing suit, highlighting the humor.

Retired to Circulation for Thirty Days in Court

A judge sternly notes the prisoner is retired from circulation for thirty days. The exchange includes a playful remark about occupation and a tale of guests debating tips and overcoats. The snippets reflect social humor and salon banter from the era with references to coatrooms and handsome men.

Ancient Egyptian Temples at Philae on the Nile

The article describes Philae on the Nile as home to major Egyptian temples, led by the Temple of Isis built about 2300 years ago by King Nekhtebf and later enlarged by Ptolemy Philadelphus and Ptolemy Bugitus I. It notes Philae became a religious resort for Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, with some structures now ruined but enough remaining to remind visitors of an ancient civilization.

Tals Osins Horus Nile River Phil Jae Nile Alexandria Isis Nekhtebf Ptolemy Philadelphus Ptolemy Burgetes I Philae Julea Lon

Not Working for Fun Porch Scrub Sparks Witty Reply

A child cleaning the front porch is visited by a caller who asks to speak with the mother. The boy humorously responds that she would be scrubbing the porch too if she were home, reflecting a playful domestic scene.

Undefined Cross Word Puzzle From Old Newspaper

A scrambled cross word puzzle page fragment lists horizontal and vertical clues with partial answers and two word chains. It includes definitions, switches like LAZY to FAIL and HAND to TIMP, and sample sentences missing key words.

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