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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1927
Page
14
Waterloo Evening Courier lists numerous help wanted ads and rental notices. Listings include store manager position with profits potential, paper hanger, two salesmen, salesladies, waitresses, cooks, and general domestic help, plus extensive apartment and house rental offerings across Waterloo Cedar Falls and nearby areas.
Classified real estate notices urge buyers to prioritize owning a home over autos furniture and other goods. Listings include seven room modern semibungalow On Alta Vista Ave and a Ricker Home for sale on Walnut Street with multiple lots and income from six apartments.
Auction to sell at East end 5th Street bridge Waterloo Iowa on September 3 1927 at 10 am to the highest cash bidder. Items include a 1923 Oldsmobile truck motor 0 15304 factory 18487 a 1921 Dart 243 ton dump wagon with Wood's hoist a 1924 Chalmers seven passenger sedan model Y motor X 6944 plus a Mohair suite oak furniture and a washing machine. Notices posted near courthouse doors in Black Hawk Bremer and Buchanan counties Iowa. Harwich's phone 351.
For sale two items offered in cash sale. A Lady's 2 carat blue white diamond ring once $150 now $80. A diamond cluster with blue sapphire mount offered $50. Call 3763 mornings and evenings for immediate sale. Also a two wheeled trailer in good condition with tires and plaster boards sections at 110 Irving. Phone 1094.
Notice to creditors and interested parties that R O Hutchison has been appointed receiver for Black Hawk Painting Co S B Page owner and bond filed. Court order requires creditors to file verified accounts by Nov 1 1927 or face foreclosure. Debtors urged to settle accounts. Waterloo Iowa July 26 1927.
Brussels August 12 King Albert supports a bold plan by Lieuts. Madaets and Verhaegen to fly nonstop from Belgium to Leopoldville in the Belgian Congo. The aviators already covered 5589 miles Brussels to Leopoldville in 12 days, aiming to span jungle and Brussels boulevards. The project seeks to extend African mail service and forge a Europe Congo air link with royal backing, possibly christened by Princess Astrid. Medaets, 31, is a war veteran pilot. Verhaegen, 20, famed navigator ace, survived a crash at a new Nivelle aerodrome inauguration where his companion was killed.
Desdemona Smith deceased late of Black Hawk county. All persons indebted to said estate requested to pay promptly and those with claims to present them duly authenticated to the undersigned for allowance and file in the clerk of the district court office. S. C. Kimm administrator National Bank Waterloo Iowa U B Kepford attorney. Dated Aug 5 1927 J. W. Thompson Clerk District Court.
Twelve Mellon Institute volunteers are paid to sleep as part of the Industrial Fellowship studying sleep physiology and hygiene. Dr. H. M. Johnston leads the tests, using automated instruments to record sleep quality over ten weeks. The group has adopted a strict professional code, insisting they are passive automatons in the research.
Ten words written by Nicholas Nicholaides on an operating table in St Vincent's hospital were deemed evidence of his common law wife Theresa Nicholaides by Surrogate O'Brien. The note, though not a will, showed his intent to leave all to his wife Tessie. Mrs Nicholaides sought to revoke letters of administration issued to James Nicholaides, a son by a deceased wife, in a estate of several thousand dollars plus a death claim against the cab owner.
New York August 16 Valentine Simpkins a New York merchant said the hot dog was not new. He traced the Savoyards in mid Victorian London who served hot pease pudding with hot dogs. He noted faggots a pork dish in poorer English districts. He described Milan 1891 automatic restaurants with two cent soups and toast. He recalled telling Paris and London about automatic service but no success.
Aug 16 report notes Rheims, once ruined and sandbagged around the cathedral, has been rebuilt into a thriving city of 70,000. The American Legion plans thousands of veterans visit next month to see the restored cathedral, new roof, and paved square. Services will be held for doughboys amid the repaired cityscape.
Los Angeles reports William Sherrill a 22 year old automobile thief was placed on five years probation after brain surgery intended to remove alleged criminal tendencies. The surgeon who operated and Sherrill’s mother Mrs E M Luts of Denver, Colo., believe the urge to crime has been removed. The procedure involved scraping the brain and is described as one of the most delicate modern surgeries.
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