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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1928
Page
19
A collage of small ads shows businesses for sale and professional services. Listings include a high class cafe for sale with health reasons and contact, jewelers offering Thaletast diamond setting and repair, a designer modiste remodeling service, a lawyer drawing wills and estates, a public accountant, chiropractors and physicians, plus several help wanted notices for sales managers and general labor positions with addresses and phone numbers.
Classified rental items listing multiple rooms, apartments, houses, and acreage for rent. Includes contact details, locations in Waterloo area, and varied terms from furnished rooms to modern bungalows. Names of streets such as Columbia St West Third and Fairview appear with phone numbers for inquiries.
A set of small ads touts a 4 acre tract suitable for a tourist park or other uses and two new modern bungalows ready by Christmas. Listings promote timely buying, urging buyers to start living in their own homes soon with available terms and contacts. Charles Bickley Co also advertises a broad real estate inventory and contact details.
Automobiles for sale shows wrecking demand and complete line of used tires tubes batteries and parts from Fish Auto Wrecking Supply Co. Listings include 1927 Chrysler 80 Seven Pass Sedan 1925 Dodge Sedan 1998 Essex Coach and 1926 Essex Coach plus 1923 Ford Coupe with prices from 75 dollars. Also radiator repair services offered by Bokorney Radiator Service with repair work on various vehicles.
Local coal dealers advertise a wide range of coal types including Pocahontas, Black Jewel, Blue Ridge, Zeigler, and Beechwood Lump with prices per ton. Listings mention Hester Kentucky Harrisburg Kentucky and columns for customers to call Foster Coal Co or other firms for calendars and holiday sales.
A dense holiday sales list from Harwich's wall to wall gifts includes cedar chests, electric washers and percolators, three light lamps, fur coats, watches, jewelry, radios, travel clocks, movies and books. Displays highlight men gifts like desk sets and cigar lighters, and home goods like vacuum cleaners, lamps, and sewing machines. Numerous prices, store names, and locations pepper the page, with extensive season offerings from local shops.
District Court of Town in Black Hawk county to Gulu Knight, Earl Knight, Lulu Knight, and Yarl Knight. Plaintiffs seek judgment for 3707.91 dollars plus interest from June 24, 1928, on a May 24, 1928 promissory note of 3600 dollars. Foreclosure of mortgage on Lot 11, Block 1, Leavitt’s Addition Water loo Black Hawk county. Hearing Jan 7, 1929, at 2 pm. Receiver may be appointed. notices served.
Paris dispatch reports Gustav V of Sweden sat for Michel Werboff for seven hours as the monarch posed like any man in the street. The resulting portrait shown at the Grand Salon drew praise from critics. The king, who rose early, kept a protruding front tooth visible, explaining he would not close his mouth. Werboff recalled meeting the king in Cannes through Mrs Jefferson Davis Cohn and noted the king’s devotion, routine tennis, and satisfaction with the finished work.
Berlin reports at an anti alcohol exhibit show 1925 1926 Dawes payments total 1.2 billion marks while alcohol consumption cost Germany 4.123 billion marks. Sickness unemployment linked to drinking cut labor power by 640 million marks and immediate business losses reach 1 billion marks, with 15.11 percent of Berlin accidents attributed to drunkenness.
Angora Dec 20 The Turkish boy scouts will embark for Italy next spring after Mussolini invited them during the recent visit to Constantinople of 1000 junior Fascists including Benito and Vittorio Mussolini The Turkish government will select 1000 top scouts from across the country for the trip based on scholastic merit this year.
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