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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1928
Page
9
Waterloo's population nears 42 000 at year start due to 359 new families and births. Net migration shows 622 families arrived by Dec 1, with 263 leaving. October records the largest influx of 106 arrivals. Monthly figures detail ongoing growth since 1930 census at 36 230, with housing expansion not yet easing crowded conditions.
Authorities predicting Waterloo will exceed 44 000 in the 1930 census, with growth accelerating in recent years due to factory payroll expansion. The article traces population since 1860, noting steady rise through the decades and projecting the next decennial total.
The Chicago Great Western railroad reports a notable rise in freight business in Waterloo for 1928, while passenger traffic declines. A second crew was added to operate the Waterloo switch engine. The facility remains in high standard condition with the freight house reroofed and an addition built to the Falls and Mullan avenues warehouse.
Waterloo playgrounds under Victor A Read and the playground commission report a highly successful year with total attendance of 112610. The diverse program included baseball basketball swimming hiking bicycle races football archery and hockey plus carnivals pet shows and ice cream sociables. Facilities were Edison West High schools Gates park Jawndale Pat's Pond and Washington park with Edison and Grants Schools as community centers. Read and assistants Louis Orr Margaret W Porter J E Mulls Mildred Coder Grace Boto Vera L Brown led the effort.
Doctors and druggists now recommend Calotabs to break up a cold overnight or shorten grippe influenza sore throat or tonsillitis One or two Calotabs at bedtime with water cleanse the system and remove the cold by morning The ad claims no nausea and no interference with eating work or pleasure A family package with directions costs 35 cents at any drug store
Iowa tax data show a drop in corporate rates from 16 to 14 percent may cut federal revenue by three quarters of a million dollars if 1929 earnings match 1928. L. E Bladine, internal revenue collector for Iowa, disclosed last year’s totals: individuals paid 4,106,158.48 and corporations 7,606,975.02. The total collected in Iowa.
The 1926 figure was 112600.03 dollars, less than 1927 intake. The internal revenue department could not explain the drop, but warned that income tax losses would be much larger during the jaguar period of the American tropics, noted for its strength and rarity in attacking humans.
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