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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1927
Page
4
The Waterlos Evening Courier announces standard newspaper details and business notices. The paper lists pricing for carriers and mail, mentions The Courier's management led by John C. Hartman and Jackson McCoy, and notes wire services and advertising policies. It references offices in major cities and advertising representatives.
A Senate session featured Alabama Senator Heflin criticizing newspapers for not reporting what he considered the best part of his speech. The presiding officer supported the refusal to recognize Heflin, leading to his eventual quiet resignation to the chair. The scene drew Dawes into backing the chair’s stance as Heflin attempted a third address.
An unusual event occurred recently at the Metropolitan Opera House involving Edna St Johns libretto for the King’s Henchman. The performance marked a first for the work, described as one of the early pretentious pieces in the program.
Passage condemns tolerating air pollution from chimneys while enforcing strict sanitation in hotels and restaurants. Argues for scrupulous air quality measures, citing successful actions in other cities and asserting the public’s right to pure air, water, and food.
In Nicaragua the article reports American aviators assisting conservative forces by bombing liberal strongholds, echoing prior protests against US bombing in Rif regions. It notes US flyers circling villages and dropping explosives while contrasting responses to foreign mercenaries and local fighters.
A physician deconstructs the belief that ear discharge signals weakness. He presents a running ear case from scarlet fever lasting four years with varying discharge and fetor. The doctor records healing impairment and bone involvement, then plans further evaluation at next visit.
Readers ask if pores exist in skin and how perspiration works. Doctors say pores are misnamed openings. sweat exits via sweat glands and is excretion, not absorption. Hypnotism cannot compel a willing subject. Arthritis is not the same as gonorrheal rheumatism. hardly contagious, no venereal neuritis evidenced. Dr Brady will answer more in reply to stamped requests.
Glenn Frank argues for a private endowment to back young leaders over 60 years, supplying a safe income to keep talent in public affairs. He warns against endowing institutions, proposing selective grants to future political religious social and educational leaders to shield them from bread and butter pressures.
Davenport Times reports a wild clash during the Langford Sunday closing bill hearings in Washington. Ministers congressmen and witnesses fought in a frenzied scene sparked by Rep Tom Blanton a fiery Texas Democrat. Fisticuffs at the capital raise questions about pugilistic selection for lawmakers.
The Herald notes rising opposition in Hardin county to state bonding for paving elsewhere while acknowledging paving roads is inevitable as cars grow. Gravel roads are preferred but costly to maintain. sand for cement could become scarce, and federal policy may require state funds to be spent on hard roads.
A retrospective on two decades of Broadway showmanship. Oscar Hammerstein II emerges as a defining figure through bold publicity stunts and theatrical ambition, contrasted with later era declines. The piece traces his family’s theater impact, noting Hammerstein’s genius, financial losses, and lasting cultural imprint amid shifting trends.
Uncle Wiggily insists on an outdoor adventure during a heavy snowstorm. He battles deep drifts and evades predators, using a snow tunnel to reach his warm bungalow and avoid capture by the fox, wolf, bear, and Bob Cat. The tale ends with the bunny safely inside as night falls.
The Gray Phantom faces pressure from Duke's crime ring as Helen Hardwick is held by the gang. Police close in, while Ambrose Marr and Culligore pursue leads in a maze of hidden rooms, betrayals, and a dangerous plan to free the Duke. The Phantom evades capture in a tense confrontation.
The Phantom warns Swell to stay silent then moves him to the bedroom. He cuts a second cord, pockets a pistol, and crouches by the desk as approaching sounds grow louder. Four door buttons loom, the second from the right key to opening the entrance.
The Burroughs Nature Club Notes appears as a 1927 column from Houghton Mifflin requesting questions on general nature subjects. It invites readers to send inquiries to the paper’s Nature Notes department and promises answers in this column.
The reader asks three questions about nesting birds in South America, the meaning of wed ganoid fish, and weevil behavior in peas and grains. The note requests clear answers to be provided in tomorrow's Nature Notes.
The text discusses using nux vomica as a strychnine substitute to poison hawks via chicken heads as bait, notes public requests for a pamphlet by A. K. Fisher, and then ponders animal limb usage and why blankets and similar wrappings keep people warm by trapping body heat in air gaps within hair and fibers.
Uncle Rays Corner the City Teheran sketches living conditions in the Persian capital focusing on modest one story homes built with earth and plaster thick walls blank front walls lush flower gardens and poplar timber for framework Downtown residents live in one story apartment houses around courtyards with single rooms renting for a dollar a month Laborers earn about thirty cents a day and many households lack a city water system relying on pedlars who sell water from house to house Tomorrow The Women of Verali
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