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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1927
Page
5
Waterloo residents joined a citywide cleanup campaign that started strongly with thousands participating. Citizens painted homes, cleared rubbish, and collected scattered cards from Boy Scouts while ensuring canning and manure piles are managed to reduce health risks.
Waterloo city coffers grew as City Clerk Charles C. MacKay received a $183,275.14 general tax check from County Treasurer Madigan. The sum, down $8,201.84 from last year, funds the operating and several city divisions including library, water works, parks, and pensions with the general bond fund allotted $41,393.00.
An由 AP style snippet mentions CBS country scene and two friends Henry Fortimer and Malcolm Me beginning a four page feature. The fragment hints at early stage coverage and a collaborative project among the trio.
The Log Cabin reports surplus peony varieties from Archie Brand Ben Franklin Chas Kellin Chestine Gowdy Mary Brand Karl Rosenfield and others at low prices. Buyers urged to act quickly to plant before spring. Local nursery stock also offered at reduced rates.
New York April 19 The New York state athletic commission voted two to one that Jack Delaney the light heavyweight champion must fight only in his 175 pound class. This bars his prospective heavyweight comeback in a match with Paulino at Yankee Stadium June 22.
A vintage ad promotes Johnson's Wax Electric Floor Polisher. It claims a coat of Johnson's Wax polishes and cleans floors automatically, requiring no pushing, and runs from a lamp socket for 14 1/4 cents an hour. Stores rent the polisher for 2 dollars per day. Telephone to arrange rental.
A long OCR list catalogs drug stores wallpaper and paint firms, furniture and dry goods outlets, and related home goods vendors across Iowa towns. Includes Ackermann Drug Co, Arndt Wallpaper and Paint Co Lafayette St, Atlas Grocery Co Jefferson, James Black Dry Goods Co East 4th St, Davidson Furniture 170 Bridge St, Paul Davis Dry Goods West 4th St, Mike Gauss Pharmacy West 4th St, Golden Rule Howe House Furnishings 215 East 6th St, McNally Drug Co Independence Ave, C I Miller Drug Co West 4th St, Red Cross Drug Co Sycamore St, Robert Drug Co Sycamore St, Standard Glass & Paint 304 Sycamore St, Wartey Wallpaper Paint 524 West 4th St, Dysart and Osage Iowa entries, plus several other town listings and contact phones.
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