Waterloo Evening Courier front page masthead and policy notes
Waterloo Evening Courier is published daily except Sunday by W H Hartman Co. at Courier Building Waterloo. It lists editors John C Hartman and Jackson McCoywensenssey with addresses and contact numbers. The page includes subscription prices, postal details, wire services, Associated Press and United Press International affiliations, and advertising policies. It notes rates, circulation, and ad payment terms, plus staff and advertising representatives in major cities.
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Story, Brooks & Finley, Representatives
Waterloo Eyes New Snow Clearing Plan For Downtown
Waterloo plans to adopt a city wide snow removal scheme similar to larger cities. Sidewalks will be kept clear by piling snow into a narrow curb strip and carting it away at night by crews with wagons. The shift aims to ease pedestrian and vehicular traffic during future snow events.
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Waterloo
Keeping the Roads Open in Iowa Backed by Bonded Roads
Iowa commits to funding primary highways with a $100,000,000 bond plan led by Black Hawk county for all weather roads and gravel surfaces on secondary routes. The issue stresses ongoing costs, maintenance, and the need for snow removal, ice control, and sufficient equipment and manpower to keep the vast network usable year round.
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Black Hawk County
Commonwealth
The Decline of the Atlantic
A critical view laments the Atlantic Monthly turning to controversy and sensationalism. It criticizes recent exposures and a plan to publish Abraham Lincoln love letters, arguing such choices destroy the magazine’s former dignity and literary prestige.
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Atlantic Monthly
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Abraham Lincoln
Ann Rutledge
The Balanced Hour Time Concepts in Daily Life
The piece discusses how the perceived length of time changes with activity levels. It compares busy periods when time seems to fly to idle moments when time drags, illustrating how hours may feel shorter or longer than real.
Balanced Hours and Fleeting Time in Daily Life
The Fort Madison Democrat laments time’s irregular pull as happy, busy hours slip by and sad, idle times linger. It envisions a universal balanced hour to smooth life and improve focus and happiness, drawing on ideas from economics like the weighted dollar.
Teens Show Higher Tuberculosis Deaths in U S and Minnesota
The piece notes 4,748 girls and 2,476 boys aged 15 to 19 died of tuberculosis nationwide in 1926, with Minnesota reporting 412 girls and 196 boys in the same age group from 1923 to 1927. It discusses possible reasons, critiques theories on clothing, and urges physical exams and tuberculin testing for early detection and care.
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Minnesota
Adolphus Knopf
Dr. Knopf
Questions and Answers on Mouth Breathing and School Health
Simple chronic rhinitis or other mild nasal issues often explain mouth breathing after tonsil removal. Recommend nasal examination and treating abnormalities, plus a year of physical training under a qualified instructor. Also notes on home economics debates and a push for physics education in high schools. Letters to Dr Brady for health inquiries are welcomed with self addressed stamped envelopes.
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William Brady
Forgetting Ourselves By Glenn Frank Parable on Self Neglect
In a 1928 essay Glenn Frank tells a fable of a hermetically sealed valley where a curious leader leads followers over a hill into a vast grain field they mistake for the sea. As they recount the journey they discover they forgot to count themselves, leaving one person uncounted. The tale warns that egotism and centered thinking cause people to overlook their own role.
Diary notes from a New York day in 1920s city life
The diary sketches a bustling New York day with encounters at a Metropolitan club reception for English novelist William J. Locke, mentions of editor Karl Harriman in Philadelphia, and a lively Fifth and Sixth Avenue scene. It records fur shop temptations, shoplifting tricks, stagecraft quirks, and evolving dining etiquette with forks overtaking spoons.
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Pepys
Karl Harriman
Philadelphia
Metropolitan Club
Ray Long
William J. Locke
Ralph Barton
America
Paris
Rue Nicols
Normandy
Earl Carroll
Dorothy Knapp
Uncle Wiggily Down a Hole in Snow
Uncle Wiggily and his wife discuss boots as snow covers the ground in the hollow stump bungalow. The rabbit gentleman wakes to morning, notices the weather, and prepares for a day outdoors. The short piece introduces the cozy scene before the tale continues with Jane Garset.
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Hollow Stump
Mrs. Longears
Jane Garset
Uncle Wiggily Delves Into Snowy Adventure Hole
Uncle Wiggily the bunny heads into a snowy storm, eager for an adventure despite rheumatism. He slips into a soft snow pit on a hill, slides down a tunnel like a strange ride, loses his sense of direction, and searches his pockets for a ticket as he contemplates what comes next in the tale.
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Mr. Longears
Uncle Wiggily
Rabbit
Tye
Alice
Uncle Wigglly
Baby Bunty
The Fortunate Wayfarer encounters two strangers
Commercial traveler Martin Barnes stops to admire a door in a cathedral town and is drawn into a family drama after two eerily well dressed men on a lonely road ask for a lift toward Norwich. He senses danger as their demeanor and secrecy deepen before the tale continues.
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Martin Barnes
Cathedral
Lord Ardrington
GE " Garnham
Lord Aldrington
Sames
Wayfarer
Maisie
Martin
Gerald Garnham
Blanche Banningham
Gerald
Thetford
Bond Street
Norwich
Dickey
Malacca
Uncle Ray's Corner on politeness and daily manners
UNCLE RAY argues politeness costs time and goodwill not money and shares a tale of noisy soup to illustrate considerate behavior. He notes hosts should serve soup and coffee at safe temperatures, avoid distracting noises, and keep voices and tunes from overpowering conversation. Tomorrow Being Thoughtful.
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Pilgrimage to Mecca meets motorcade era
A Charles City Press piece contrasts romantic visions of Islamic pilgrimage with modern reality. It notes caravans giving way to motorcades as Mohammadan pilgrims travel by car and truck, desert oases host filling stations, and even romance yields to American efficiency.
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Charles City Press
Mecca
Burroughs Nature Notes Q and A 1928
Readers send questions to the Nature Notes column. Answers cover winter fly survival with fertilized females laying eggs in spring, muskrat shell piles near pond edges as evidence of feeding, and woodpeckers eating acorns, describing carpintero and nut consumption in decaying trees.
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