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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1928
Page
9
Classified ad fragment notes for sale items including rebuilt bicycles with repair services at Page fire Shop, 521 Argyle phone 1598, and auto tops by J. J. Shannon, 902 Independence Ava. Also mentions two lightly used spreaders from Litchfield Mfg. Co offered at attractive prices.
Legal notices announce the appointment of ANcil Jary as Ancillary Administratrix of Josephine Maguire deceased from California with filing and payment deadlines. Also listed are Albert Bixby and George L Van Duyn estate administrations, with executrix and administrator notices, payment requests, and claim filing requirements in Black Hawk County Iowa.
The Cornell College ladies glee club will perform at Hotel Russell Lemson tonight during dinner hour. The group plans another concert tomorrow evening at Grace Methodist Episcopal Church. An elderly inmate, Albert Robbins, 82, fractured his left hip after a fall at Black Hawk county home and was taken by ambulance to Alien Memorial hospital.
The National Tuberculosis Association campaign urges yearly health exams for children to catch disease early and save lives. Officials cite reduced TB rates yet warn high school age groups remain at risk. factors include contact with active cases and milk from infected cows. Emphasis on regular physician and dentist visits, proper diet, sleep, and vaccination against contagious diseases.
A snippet urges parents to curb oral objects and teach health habits. It emphasizes outdoor play, open windows for sleep, regular meals, frequent bathing, and tooth brushing to foster good hygiene in children.
Two Travel Airplanes owned by Hawkeye Air Transport will represent Waterloo at the National Aeronautic show in Detroit Michigan next week. Fisk Marshall announced that he and Robert Cole will accompany C A Morris and John Cable on the Waterloo to Detroit flight. The planes depart Waterloo early Monday with Marshall piloting one ship and Cable the other and will rendezvous at Cedar Rapids and Moline to join Des Moines units, forming an Iowa group.
Travelling half way around the world to find his bride Spiros and his partner in the Aristocrat shop are sailing today toward Crete for a summer wedding. He has lived in America years, seeks citizenship, and will return with his wife to Waterloo. He plans a stop in Athens for a university law school ceremony and his brother Harry’s graduation before the Crete wedding and a short Athens honeymoon.
In Nevada Iowa on April 14 B F Cottrill buys A F Girsch interest in Cottril Girsch barber shop at 408 Fourth Street West. The shop will be renamed Shorty’s Barber Shop. Also in Nevada the body of Mrs Charles W Harris will be buried after she died from self inflicted wounds following ill health. funeral at Nevada Methodist Church Wednesday.
Forty of New Yorks most disreputable looking tramps in top hats and canes joined the Easter parade along Fifth Avenue. The Reeds described scenes from their auto tour from Florida via St Augustine Savannah Richmond Washington Baltimore Philadelphia to Pittsburgh. They noted a 35 mile detour near Savannah showing negroes heading to church and a funeral procession with mule rigs and pallbearers. A South Carolina Democrat described voters split between Al Smith and a Republican as likely to stay home. The party also observed a garish troupe of tramps parading down Fifth Avenue as church was out and Easter crowds filled the avenues. Katherine Graham and Nan Black left the party in different cities.
Paris reports a new automatic pari mutuel system to handle up to a quarter million bets per minute. Machines issue tickets, record bets, and compute odds, eliminating human error and centralized betting to unify odds from paddock to field. Government collects 11 percent tax on bets.
Robert Ebel of West High placed third in the state extempore speaking contest at Marshalltown. Nine contestants spoke on Flood Control. Stanwood’s William Hemphill won with Changes in Europe's Feeling Toward America, while Tama’s Richard Timms took second with Conditions in Russia. Paul D. Knight of Grinnell College judged the event, as George Fields of West High served as escort.
Carlisle England April 14 Gretna Green smithy on the border of England and Scotland is no longer the haven for eloping couples it was a century ago. Yet it remains a site for many romantic marriages under old laws requiring two witnesses and a declaration.
A couple completed a certificate signing witnessed by two people marking the ceremony as finished. The event proceeded smoothly with all parties present and the witnesses attesting to the document.
Charlee W. Kline of East Side Schools will join the Canopus Club at Black's on Tuesday afternoon. The meeting focuses on reading and literature topics with members from the local Reading and Longevity group.
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