23 Apr 1907
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Newspaper
Waterloo Semi Weekly Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1907
Page
1
Fiorian receives a protective charm from an old woman and sets out brave to seek wealth. In a city of ivory walls he follows a crowd as a tale of a stolen prince unfolds. A gentle princess urges him to find the prince while Florian refuses yet remains torn by duty.
In a fairy tale set around King Maurice and Princess Beatrice a magical ruby lets a lover see the true beloved. Florian's quest to find the missing Prince Eustace leads to a crane helper and a princess reveal. The crane speaks, the ruby shows the prince’s face, and Beatrice wed the rightful prince in joyous royal celebration.
A playful verse questions who will get the plum bun the baker baked and filled with two plums. It contrasts a whining child, a grabbing child, and the well mannered child who says please, suggesting the polite child would receive it promptly.
The oak begins as an acorn fruit. Seeds germinate tiny, root first, then stalk. roots elongate and penetrate soil while leaves form. Over years, the tree develops girders of roots, feeds via outer rootlets, and an oak may bear 760,000 leaves while evaporating vast water from June to October.
The list gives twelve sentences with one hidden city per line. Each solution names a city such as Ithaca, El Augustine, New York, Chicago, Buffalo, Duluth, Denver, Cleveland, Rome, Paris, Albany, Salem, matching the provided answer key for each numbered item.
Jack finds magic wooden shoes by the river and tries them on to ride a fairy boat. He grants wishes, attracting a magician and a swan. Butterflies and bees appear as playful responses until the magician threatens more, causing Jack to remove the shoes. The magician never leaves shoes about again.
A Chicago News report describes Mrs. Kangaroo keeping youngsters in her pouch during rest and freeing one by one to escape pursuers. The tactic lightens her load and disturbs the hunter's scent, allowing the mother to outrun danger while sacrificing a joey to mislead the chase.
In a Philadelphia Ledger item, three beggars A B and C share funds in a riddle. A has 1.50, B and C 0.75 each, with constraints of one third portions and differences of 50 and 66 cents. A equals A plus B and C together. The puzzle resolves to A 1.50 and B 0.75, C 0.75. Also a quip about a piano practice child mishearing counts followed by Ge next is five.
Frederick Hall of Malden, Massachusetts, built a one string barrel cello from a sugar barrel using a cello string. The hollow barrel acts as a sounding board for arias and opera selections. After weeks of work, he produced a surprisingly mellow tone and attracted many visitors. A circus offer was made but declined. Hall is known as a local composer of tunes and marches.
The bodies of Gustav J Kathke Jr and Ella M Ner were found in the Delaware River near Chestnut Street Philadelphia, arms about each other in a tranquil pose. Both families had opposed the match but forgave the couple after the lovers disappeared last Tuesday night.
Samuel Young of 59 Bedford Street New York City pulled in a fish and found the dead body of his lifelong friend Gunray Johnson forty five of Greenwich Street, Johnson a tugboat cook, reported missing Saturday, Coroner Acritelli found no foul play and burial was authorized by Friends. Frank Flemley standing on a Buckeye Station platform when a steam engine blew its cylinder head severing his right ear. the severed ear was recovered and kept for display at Loom Lake later.
In a shady wood a tall purple iris stands proud while a forgetme not warns her of a coming wind. The wind snaps the iris, the forgetme not pleads to the fairy queen, who grants the iris restoration and, to the forgetmenot, love and beauty with a diamond heart.
A Colorado boy blew soap bubbles last winter as the thermometer sank to about 14 degrees below zero. The bubble released in the cold air froze into a hollow ice sphere on the snow, while later rising temperatures prevented freezing. The father wonders if such a bubble could form more easily at lower, wetter latitudes and seeks an explanation for the moisture effect.
Activities include a circle game naming adjectives from A to Z starting with The ministers cat and an alternate version using other phrases. Also describes a leaf imprint method called Transferring a Rose Leaf using pressed colors from a rose leaf onto paper for a durable impression.
A Chicago Inter Ocean note describes a simple illusion using a pane of glass. By tracing a mark with a finger and breathing on it the trace becomes visible, and polishing the glass then reveals a coin impression after breathing. The effect relies on surface gas and dust layers.
In Carpenterix valley near the Santa Ynez mountains a young Spanish woman named Joaquin Lugodi Aysia planted a grape twig long ago. The vine has grown into the largest in the world, with a trunk ten feet in circumference and a girth of seven feet eleven inches at five feet high. The hidden trellis spans 100 by 110 feet, covering about a quarter acre.
The tales originated in Persia India and Arabia and were refined after Harun al Rashid in the 8th century. They entered European knowledge in 1704 with Monsieur Galland’s translation and a later English edition by Edward Lane in 1839 in Chicago.
A fragmented verse warns of slips and falls around stairs, washtub, and milk pall. It hints at danger in daily chores and urges caution to prevent injuries from missteps and wet surfaces.
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