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Newspaper

Waterloo Evening Courier

Location

Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Dec 08, 1928

Page

3

Waterloo Daily News Parenthetical Rates and Motto

Subscription prices listed by carrier and mail with intraregional and long distance options. The paper notes rights, editorial policies, and advertising terms, including payment timing and fraud prevention, with mention of Associated Press affiliations and agency offices.

Waterloo Iowa Associated Press United Press International News Member Audit Bureau of Circulations Peaween New York Philadelphia Chicago Los Angeles San Francisco Story Brooks & Finley Representatives

A Boy's Triumph at Chicago Exposition

Clarence Goecke, a 12 year old from State Center, won the grand champion Hereford steer Dick at the Chicago exposition. He triumphed after taking first in the junior feeding, Hereford, and yearling classes. Judge Walter Biggar praised the quality, marking a historic win for a boy exhibiting the grand champion beast.

Iowa Clarence Goecke State Center Walter Biggar Dalbeattie Scotland

Christmas Trees Justify Conservation Says Forest Service

Opinion argues Christmas tree thinning helps forests by reducing dense growths and improving light and nutrients for remaining trees. The U S Forest Service asserts the tradition is old and well grounded and vital for human joy, urging careful harvesting to avoid depleting timber areas.

United States Forest Service Forest Service Star of Bethlehem

Still a Monarchy in Modern Times Amid Death Heuristic

In London King George lies near death and Lloyds quotes a 52 percent premium on insuring the monarch’s death before year end. The piece notes English reverence for the king would trigger nationwide mourning, damaging trades, theatre, hotels, and amusements, while underlining monarchy's strange blend of medieval sentiment and modern markets.

George London Lloyd’s England

An Old Editor's Views On Printing

The Iowa Journalist notes monthly debates on what to print and prints items only if publicity benefits the community more than it harms individuals. Veteran Hawkeye writer Will M. Sanger recalls his shift from sensationalism to restraint, admitting earlier years favored publishing news for its flavor.

Iowa Hawkeye Will M. Sanger Blanchard Herald

A Blanchard editor defends old school journalism

A veteran editor recalls decades in print, defending principled reporting against tabloid excess. He laments the era’s obsession with scandal while praising steadfast editors who live by mercy and the golden rule, warning modern journalism risks its integrity.

Gene Tunney retreats from limelight after marriage

The former boxing champion Gene Tunney steps back from public attention following his marriage, signaling a shift in his public presence as he settles into married life.

Gene Tunney

All Night Baking Glove for Buerger’s Disease

A New Orleans doctor describes a patient with Buerger's disease whose fingers improved through a homemade heating device. The glove with a 15 watt lamp delivers heat all night, enabling a traveling salesman to bake his hands while asleep without danger, using a cloth wrap and long cord for mobility. The writer notes a possible link to Raynaud's disease and suggests the method for relief during attacks.

New Orleans Buerger Raynaud

Questions and Answers on Bunions and Vitamins

Questions about bunion cures and whether anesthesia is required. Answers explain surgical removal for established bunion with two weeks off feet, possible relief with proper footwear in early cases, and safe topical care. Vitamin sources and canned vegetables discussed, with advice on vitamin A and immune health. A playful note answers about a dropped stomach and suggests an ad for lost item.

K.C. R Simpy McCollum & Simmonds Johns Hopkins University C. W

Personal Health Letters Answered by Dr Brady Notice

Readers may send brief stamped letters about personal health and hygiene not disease diagnosis or treatment. Dr Brady will reply if an addressed stamped self enclosed envelope is provided. Send to Dr William Brady care of this newspaper and include your city on the return envelope.

Dr. Brady Wiliam Brady

Beware of Rules and Habits by Glenn Frank

Glenn Frank urges individuals to tailor rules to their temperament and job rather than follow generic success manuals. He cautions against rigid schedules and emphasizes self observation to optimize peak mental alertness for top tasks throughout the day.

Glenn Frank University of Wisconsin The Century Magazine

New York Sales Riots Spark Urban Chaos on Fourteenth Street

The piece details a New York storefront sale drawing crowds and riots, with $2 millinery and $5 to $10 ladies' suits attracting Lower East Side shoppers. Private guards and police lines shield entrances as crowds surge before dawn, ambulances wait, and some doors stay locked until order returns. The report weaves in broader reflections on movie tricks and city life, ending with a whimsical Uncle Wiggily interlude.

New York Fourteenth Street Broadway the Avenue Union Square

Uncle Wiggily and the Snow

Uncle Wiggily returns to his hollow stump bungalow after a day of hopping in the woods and fields. He tells his Wife that a strained rheumatism leg from leaping over a fence while escaping a Weasel has left him in pain.

Hollow Stump Buster Custer Nurse Jane Bunnies Wiggily Fuzzy Wuazzy Mr. Longears Uncle Wiggily Mr. Black Daddy Bird Mother Bird Little Bird

Uncle Wiggily Walks With Pain After Fall

Uncle Wiggily must walk stiffly after a stumble and a leg ache lingers despite plans for a warm bungalow and a supper of carrot pancakes. Mrs Long Ears offers a quip about a striped rheumatism crutch while Nurse Jane’s gnawed remedy is recalled.

Mrs. Longears Jane Mr. Longears Uncle

Roosevelt Seen as Likely Democratic Nominee in 1940

Richmond Times-Dispatch quotes a观察 about Franklin D Roosevelt being the most disconsolate Democrat and seemingly marked for the presidential nomination four years hence.

Richmond Times-Dispatch Franklin D.“Roosevelt United States

Burroughs Nature Club Notes Column Inquiry

Notes invite questions on nature subjects to the Nature Notes Dept asking readers to send inquiries for general interest answers in this column. Copyright 1928 by Houghton Mifflin Co is acknowledged in the Burroughs Nature Club Notes page.

Burroughs Nature Club Houghton Mifflin Co Nature Notes

Answers in Tomorrow's Nature Notes

Fly winter survival question answered. telegraph plant desmodium gyrans may move small leaflets. winter bird feeding tips advise soft foods for soft-billed birds and seeds for seed eaters. a brown wood snake with a yellow collar behind the head likely eastern ring snake Diadophis punctatus. found under stones or rotting bark, eats earthworms lizards and small snakes.

Smoke Nuisance Views From Waterloo Opinion Letter

In Washington DC December 6 a reader urges the Courier to sustain editorials on the smoke nuisance. The writer favors city heat plants to pipe heat, save fuel, and reduce smoke, arguing for a public campaign and smokeless cities. The note ends with a historical aside about Virginia law in 1632 about wild hogs.

Washington DD. C Courier Waterloo Herting Iowa Maud Landis

The Girl Who Sleeps in a Window Display

A noon street scene shows a pretty woman posed in a mattress display as crowds admire. The narrator muses on sleeping on the job, romance, and the lure of a dreamlike life, then shifts to a tale of Martin in his rooms with maps, roses, and a late night call. He ends weary and ready for rest.

David Swan Victor Hugo Leonid Andreyeff Socrates Hamlet Joe Martin Percy Quilland Rose

The Fortunate Wayfarer flavor in a London doorway awakening

Martin Barnes a commercial traveler stops before a curious door in a cathedral town and is drawn inside by a voice. Lord Ardirington family drama unfolds as Garnham presents 60 000 pounds to a man he believes is Barnes. Barnes flees his life and, after meeting Garnham and Lady Blanche Banningham, faces a new path amid wealth and deception.

Martin Barnes Lord Ardrington Gerald Garnham Lord Aldrington Barnes Maisie Martin Blanche Banningham Gerald Erald Garnham Altho Rose Percy Quilland Garnham

Sound Prophecy From President On Potomac Voyage

On a Mayflower trip down the Potomac President Coolidge and a newspaper man paused at the rail to reflect on Alexandria across the river. The journalist recalled Washington’s warning to Alexandria merchants about New York’s rising port status. Coolidge, after a moment, said, A sound prophecy.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch President Coolidge Alexandria George Washington New York

Abe Martin Daughter Wears The Sweater Jest

A humorous remark notes Abe Martin’s daughter wearing a sweater while his wife worries about dry officers and traffic laws. The speaker jokes that if everyone feared authorities as much as they fear the pope visiting, the country would be in an uproar.

Christmas play plan for school groups in simple scenes

Uncle Ray outlines a do it yourself Christmas play titled The Christmas Fortune for pupils and community groups. He describes practical props for a tenement room lawyer office and a Christmas tree scene, advises on safety with electric bulbs and candles, and notes varying numbers of children and ways to adapt the staging for classroom use. Readers can request duplicates if parts are missing by writing to the circulation manager.

Helen Sterling

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