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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1928
Page
13
Waterloo plans a meeting at the YWCA tomorrow night to decide whether to keep the six welfare groups under a unified Community Chest drive or return to individual campaigns. If kept, the agency to run this year’s drive will likely be chosen. past two years the Chest fell short of its goal.
Des Moines reports from Burt J. Thompson of the Iowa Farms corporation show farm earnings vary by size across the state. The Tyden Anderson 960 acre farm yields about 4 percent on a $200 per acre valuation since 1919, while Arby Bucklew’s 40 acre Marion county farm shows net earnings of 27.50 per acre, over 18 percent on the same valuation. Woods Brothers operations report returns ranging from 4 to 54 percent over recent years.
Nine families were removed from the city in the past week, per records of Russell L. De Gon, secretary of the Waterloo Retail Merchants' association. The list includes Mr and Mrs W Carleton Dawson and others at addresses on Washington Independence Elm Thirdwest Adrian Halsted Logan.
St Paul reports only 44 soldiers remain on Minnesota’s Indian uprising pension rolls from 1862. Pension payments have fallen from 56000 to 17000 dollars annually as the era’s veterans fade from the books.
A humorous mix of short items from several places. A 22 year old dog named Mama is noted as rival to ton dog show chatter. A cattle dealer in Monza faces losses from damaged goods and retirement after costly glass repairs. Westfield officials report $850 maintenance but only $250 inventory value for one truck. In Rochester a squirrel feeder Ida Wilkinson earns surprise guest a large rat who now visits regularly. A two headed calf sold at Manchester auction drew no bids. Kansas novelist Margaret Hill McCarter is asked for a series of short stories.
President and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge will attend their son’s Amherst College graduation on June 1. Friends of the Coolidge family stated the plans today in Amherst Massachusetts.
The American Legion Band and the Y's Men’s Glee Club will provide music at the sunrise Easter service in Riverview Park Cedar Falls from 6 to 7 am Sunday. The program includes Bugle Call Organ Echoes Hymn Lead Kindly Light and other selections with Rev. McCormick Malt and Rev. Howland Hanson among speakers.
Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin, first issued in 1892, is promoted as a mild liquid laxative for women and children. The ad claims it cures headaches biliousness indigestion and related ailments and notes vast world sales and free sample offers from Monticello Illinois.
Morning at Graham's home features a flock of martins seen as harbingers of spring. The birds are noted to appear about 10 to 15 days before their typical arrival, though Graham remains uncertain about the timing of the martins’ return.
Reports indicate scouts arrived yesterday and inspected winter martin houses. Tonight the flock relocated to specially constructed homes, taking up quarters in the designed roosts.
Des Moines reports on an appeal challenging a Scott county district court ruling as the legal process advances. The case centers on a decision from the county court and now moves to higher scrutiny.
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