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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1929
Page
3
Waterloo Evening Courier presents its masthead policy notes, rates, and advertising rules. Includes circulation details, wire service affiliations, and disclaimers about admissible advertising content and payment terms.
The piece notes high business activity and optimistic sentiment with near capacity manufacturing and brisk retail trade. It cites National City Bank of New York’s April letter praising overall commerce, warning about credit conditions, and explaining its crisis actions and stance on over speculation and Federal Reserve policy.
A Nation’s Business essay by Francis Keally imagines future American airports as city hubs. Domed terminals with 44 planes landing simultaneously, dirigible mooring atop central towers, and 8,000 foot runways promise efficient passenger and freight movement despite wind.
The article envisions vast aviation hubs with electric tractor towing for blades, two story hangars with ramps, central guest rooms baths restaurants pools, and a subway link to city streets. It notes such plans may seem fanciful but could advance modern, well placed airports amid a joke about changing tires and shifts in political life.
Medical column debunks autointoxication and diet myths as unproven. Warns that no food causes constipation and that true poisoning from intestinal waste is virtually non existent except in severe obstruction. Includes reader Q and A on diagnosis, pernicious anemia and appendix function with plain language guidance.
Glenn Frank argues true leadership blends distance with approachability. A great leader maintains a necessary gulf to command with intrinsic force of character, while remaining capable of genuine kindness in human relations.
A fragment from a small town paper describes a neighbor who shoots a man who played radio at night. A juror notes the habit and the verdict emerges suicide. The issue touches hidden tensions and odd news blurbs about fashion and village life.
A scanned item describes intelligence tests at major universities and a word puzzle activity. It presents sample word chains such as Crow to Crown, Hat to That, and Lot to Toll, asking readers to cross out extra letters within three minutes, with answers to appear on the Society Page.
Abe Martin Misa Fawn Lippinellf posed in new attire making townsfolk curious. Art Smiley commented that open boarding houses seem unlikely while drug stores multiply in the area.
A writer tours Grand Central Terminal noting a full underground world with banks, shops, hotels, a hospital, chapels, art gallery, radio ads, a golf school, multiple hotels, and plans for a new playhouse. The piece highlights diverse services and oddities, including a famed oyster bar and pocket lighter collections, amid urban congestion and cab trends.
Seventy years ago notes from The Courier with items on Gouch Hungerford hardware ad storage business Young Men's Literary Association lectures at Day's hall on Life and Immortality Civilizatio n talk East Waterloo temperance meeting wheat prices 75 cents per bushel steamer Black Hawk sighting and various local happenings including steamboat trips, hog swimming antics, geese flights, and civic notes from Waterloo Cedar Rapids and surrounding towns.
A Cedar Paris interurban car collided with an auto at Oak avenue and Mulberry street, left car step damaged, no injuries. Rev C H Stauffacher marks fourth year as Logan Avenue Evangelical pastor. Zearing conference ends. Ricker Van Metre joins Joyce Watkins Lumber in Chicago from Shohola Pa. High Land Park family improving under nurse care. Black Hawk club honors H Hemenway at Burr house dinner for 75th birthday. Cedar Falls river tragedy claims three hunters Henry Rothman Chris Anderson Frank Bentz as their boat capsized upstream in high swift water.
An incident at the dam ends with one man clinging to the structure while two others drown upstream at 12 40 p m. Bystanders on Fourth street bridge and slang banks heard cries for help but could not assist. Editorial note mentions staff changes at Daily Reporter and a state oratorical contest winner from Waterloo. Congress debates stock market speculation with references to Senator Glass and potential credit curbs, highlighting economic debate on regulation and the dangers of gambling in stocks.
The Atchison Globe notes that Al Smith bought a hand organ after a defeat and views it as good sport not whining. It contrasts Smith with Bryan and mentions Smith congratulating Hoover, praising sportsmanship in defeat.
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