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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1927
Page
4
Hazelton Pa April 19 detectives reveal a long standing habit of burying children’s clothing in hard coal areas. The practice, linked to overseas customs and superstitions, has puzzled police as bundles with no bodies were found. Authorities say poverty and beliefs about spirits drive the burials.
The Board of Education of the East Public School District will hold an April meeting in the offices of Charles W. Kling, superintendent, tonight. The meeting of the Superintendents' club tonight has been postponed to next Monday due to Macy Campbell Miss. Caliie Wieder explains library use to freshmen B students at West High. Police report minor injuries from a pedestrian collision on Columbia and Crescent streets.
Eli Nomen 17 of Council Bluffs and Vernon DeLong were arrested on a railroad station robbery charge at Maine. Nomen, paroled several times, was ordered returned to Eldora training school by Judge Mantaz. DeLong received a school sentence. Nomen claimed insanity as his defense.
Janesville resident H. D. Basking, age 79, a claimed oldest fiddler in the region, prepares to bow a Civil War era fiddle that survived the conflict unscathed at a local event in Janesville, Wisconsin.
A Waterloo feature names Marquard seven as a central figure in an advertising segment for Wilkes Dusk. The item emphasizes local identity and the impact of the Waterloo connection on the ad narrative.
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