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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1927
Page
11
The Conquerors track a tramp terrorizing farmer Mr. Sauers after a camp rescue. Ringer the dog wounds reported. Sheriff Hixon arrests the tramp as the boys, exhausted, await a ride home with Mr. Sauers in his car after a day of danger and duty.
A beauty guide for young girls stressing health over cosmetics. It urges exercise, water intake, outdoor activity, and clean habits as the true skin tonic, warning against candy and heavy makeup. It advises gentle cleansing with soap and water, rosewater and glycerine for dry skin, and caution with rouge or powder in teens.
Summer puzzle column presents five reader riddles and credited names Tommy Elliott Mary Ann Multen Nellie Vermeuten Annie Mae Reed Beatrice Powers. Each riddle asks a city name or weather related question with a playful answer. The page invites readers to solve and submit guesses for a local youth feature.
A set of trivia items asks which general preferred Gray's Elegy over fortress capture, the plane Lindbergh flew to Paris, the Granite State, the Gentile woman for whom a Bible book is named, who built the first American locomotive, who is termed the Mother of Russia, the tree juice used to poison a philosopher, and which two NL teams played a 22 inning game this season.
Readable fragments list crossword clues and partial phrases across many categories. Entries include signatures attachments movement rhythm moxie robotic terms animal wagers moisture growth fatigue and various common words. The garbled text also references railroad terms Greek letters body parts clothing weight animals and nautical actions.
In four moves transform RIVER into LAKES by altering one letter at a time with valid intermediate words. Then fix LOSE to FIND in six moves, each step yielding a real word and ending with FIND.
A witty exchange between a private and an officer centers on mud on the private’s collar. The private explains it is not doing anything at the moment, highlighting a light moment amid military life.
A newspaper column emphasizes daily tooth brushing and regular dental exams as essential for avoiding painful procedures and large bills. It lists five “Dental Don’ts” including brushing daily cracking nuts avoiding hard foods avoiding pins and regular checkups.
Mr Sayers drives four boys and their dog from his farm, loaded with belongings, as they depart toward town. Bob teases Bill about Ruth moving to the town school, while the farmer mentions Ruth will stay with her aunt. The scene ends with light banter and a final farewell.
Reader is shown an outline map of a state or Canadian province and asked to identify it with the answer indicated elsewhere on the page. The note hints the solution is located elsewhere on the same page.
A curious card trick shows a boy with a size six hat managing to fit his head through a postcard hole. The method uses heavy paper, twisting after carefully cutting along diagrammed lines and two circles drawn on the card sized to the postcard.
A writer describes a playful experiment cutting lines to form a circular inch wide strip that can be worn over the head like a necklace. The suggestion is to end lines in the center with a short space to create the looping paper circle.
A playful verse warns hay fever sufferers with a punny take on illness. The excerpt follows Algernon Pease remarking on hay fever and a comic misfortune that escalates, noting the seasonal trouble and the speaker’s exaggerated reaction.
Instructions describe making a five foot long arrow gun from a gas pipe and an automobile inner tube. It explains mounting between two trees, drawing back a rubber strap, and using straight grain wood arrows with a pumpkin as a target. Cautions include shooting away from camp and keeping the operator out of range.
The reader supplies a numbered set of eight items: 1 Wolfie, 2 a Ryan monoplane, 3 New Hampshire, 4 Ruth, 5 Peter Cooper, 6 Catherine LI, 7 the hemlock, 8 the Cubs of Chicago and the Braves of Boston.
Answers to riddles cover Key West and wordplay. Items include clues for Wales pun, weather humor about soft water, and a candle. The drift riddle ties to movement and flow.
A humorous exchange features a doctor asking about dyspepsia and a patient quipping that difficulty arises only when spelling the term. The brief joke plays on medical and linguistic misfires with a snappy punchline.
A playful exchange in a youth group scene ends with a Scout clarifying the metaphor of a blood vessel as a lifeboat, quelling the Tenderfoot’s question and prompting him to leave. The moment illustrates humor in learning metaphors during a study period.
A sailor spins a yarn about a lookout sighting a dead whale at sea and a passerby asks how long it had been dead. A domestic science class recipe adds a quirky hash of salad made by turning an ice box upside down and mixing, served with forks.
A Wisconsin state brief notes a puzzle titled The Missing Word Sneeze. The item mentions a word game moment likely from a local column, inviting readers to solve a playful linguistic clue for the day.
The reader lists word chains River over lives likes lakes and lose lost listhintmint mind find. Horizontal clues include games pains sign am dance rye cat bet for site pig Les Poe sol ist rinds Xi toes Ienows stand wears ara Mi end Pict age sorts snap acme reel beams are boa thes feed slick tons blind pies oxen row set to Pa. The gusale picture shows school football pumpkin pie and harvest. Row though. The diamond word is S bet burro serious trout out.
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