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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1928
Page
16
Paris reports a Bank of France fortress with a seven foot thick metal safe door guarding billions. A 65 foot moat with a swift 10 foot flow deters burglars while concealed floor traps and secret devices protect the treasure, officials say.
Road conditions reduced attendance at the Eagle Township Farm Bureau meeting held at the Dan Conry home to 15. County agent J. L. Oban presented motion pictures and delivered a talk. Mrs. G. C. Peck and Mrs. N. E. Relter assisted. Angie Lilli, visiting from Waterloo, is staying with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lillig.
Radio programs tonight Sunday and Monday CST list stations and shows across many markets. Notable entries include New York Chamber Music Society on NBC, Philco hour, theatre organ on WMAQ, and various orchestral and band programs in Chicago Cincinnati Detroit and Pittsburgh with many local stations and time slots.
A lengthy Sunday radio schedule lists programs across NBC and Red networks, featuring orchestras, choirs, talks, and religious services from 10:00 A M to late evening across stations like WMAQ WEAF and WIZ. A fire at 124 Home Park Boulevard damaged a car and the Hippodrome entrance. a man saw Capt. Frank G Lindsey and firefighters extinguish it with a fire extinguisher. The Church of the Moly Sepulchre at Dorsem suffered major earthquake damage with the dome under repair.
A Courier staffer claims Ray Berry, a local advertising man, is the same Ray Berry pursued by police. He is jailed on $509 bond and faces contempt in district court for liquor injunction violations and a new bootlegging charge from Feb. 15. He is to appear at 9 a.m. Monday as the case proceeds.
Cable report from London states Sir William Tyrell is appointed the British ambassador to France, succeeding Lord Crewe, announced this afternoon. Also notes the death of antiquarian Giuseppe Sangiorgi at age 80 and mentions Mussolini forbidding Salian aviators from attempting long missions.
James E. Dillon sells his Cedar River boat livery after eight years without a single accident. He and his home at Park Avenue East are transferred to Jacob M. Jacobsen of Pair View Avenue. About 3,000 people rented boats during the period. Jacobsen will run the boat operations while Dillon remains with the Riverview Hotel at Park Avenue and Water Street.
Roger W. Taggart of Yelloway Bus outlines transcontinental air passenger service radiating from Chicago. A giant tri motor cabin plane carrying 12 passengers will run direct routes Chicago to Detroit Denver St. Louis Omaha Kansas City Pittsburgh and Cleveland with motor bus feeders to nearby towns. Other planes will operate along trunk lines to major east and west coast cities with fares no more than 25 percent above railroad rates.
Iowa City to build a $100000 American Legion clubhouse in Town City with bids opening March 7. Construction slated to start April 1 and the building expected to be completed by October 1.
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