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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1928
Page
14
Waterloo telegraph service shifts to Simplex automatic printers amid 20 percent 1928 growth. Training for staff took 90 days with full pay. $20,000 spent per unit. three units link Waterloo to Chicago, two to Des Moines, and another circuit planned to Fort Dodge.
Waterloo Garment company produced 250000 dresses for women and girls in the past year under the Fonda Mae line. About 125 to 150 operators and 12 salesmen supported distribution through five retail shops in Waterloo Cedar Rapids Dubuque Marshalltown and Fort Dodge. The firm began in 1898 in a Maple street room and now lists George McWilliams as president with Guy N. Lee as secretary and manager.
Iowa Public Service reports Waterloo electric power sales of 28 million kWh in 1928, up 24 percent from 1927, with 741 new meters bringing total to 12 600. Gas use rose 4.5 percent to 355 million ft3, as 434 meters were added for a total of 10 727. Factories drove most growth. company invested $113,000 in plant improvements. Revenue rose 11 percent despite lower factory power rates, with an average electricity rate of 3.3 cents per kWh and gas at $1.36 per 1 000 ft3. 1.8 miles of gas mains were laid, totaling 122 miles. A new $80,000 electric plant is under construction at Charles City under I C P.
The Waterloo Western Union office will replace old of way wiring, connecting to the main Chicago to Sioux City Omaha and northwest coast highway lines. Over the past year $34,000 was paid in salaries to local employees, with a general raise announced by President Newcomb Carlton effective January 1 increasing salaries next year.
Stockholm reports that of 9,211,500 dollars spent in 101 Swedish cities on admission fees to theatres moving picture houses sports and similar amusements last year the majority was for cinemas.
Essex Iowa December 31 work has started here on digging ditches for new watermains.
Jenkins Fergemann at 714 Jefferson Street, makers of blank books and office systems, reports a strong rise in bindery output last year. Five new modern machines were added, salesmen cover every county courthouse in the state, and tax receipts and assessments rose at several county seats. The firm, established in 1920 by two Waterloo youths, remains a small but rising city industry.
Decorah Iowa reports Prof. David T Nelson of Luther College received an invitation to attend the March 4 inauguration of President elect Herbert Hoover. Nelson, linked to Hoover since 1914 15 as commissioner for relief in Belgium, will join other Belgian relief workers in a reserved section. A Hoover driver arranged by his former associates is planned for March 3.
The golf champions of Lithuania Kipras Penkas and Marion Rakanshaik are paired as grand opera stars in the same company, highlighting a rare crossover of sports excellence and performing arts in a single troupe.
In 1928 business reached new highs across steel, auto, construction, distribution and profits surpassed 1926. Labor held good wages. agriculture income met or exceeded 1927. Credit remained ample, banks sound, Fed system tested, with optimism for 1929 and broader prosperity. Main roads built by the Romans averaged 11 to 15 feet in width.
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