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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1924
Page
16
Classifieds offer housekeeping services, barber training, used trucks, real estate listings, rental rooms, apartments and farms. Ads mention collecting agency, real estate firms, and various sale and rental notices with numerous names and addresses across Waterloo Iowa.
Marshfield Massachusetts February 28 Mrs Anna Pratt Ocean Cliff takes a daily dip and enjoys it regardless of the weather neighbors say her last dip was very profitable she brought up from the water several bottles beating the one time familiar XXX and the bottles were intact
Cedar Falls Feb 28 Missionary Esther Morgensen and George Newgaard will wed at the home of Rev. Gullatta. The ceremony and reception follow with pink and white decor. The couple will reside on a farm near Janesville after the wedding.
The La Porte City Bulletin reports on Presbyterian Women Society meeting at the church parlors with Mrs. O Ro McCoy presiding and Miss Sylvia Rober and Miss Haile Fenoy performing a duet. Postponed Pythian Sisters meeting now set for March 14, plus social visits, a wedding in Vinton, and community bridge gathering details.
New York reports a mah jongg itching outbreak traced to lacquer on game cases. Skin specialists cite poison ivy components in oriental lacquer as the irritant, with symptoms potentially latent for centuries. The piece also digresses into unrelated antiquarian finds and trivia.
Pasadena reports Dr. F. 3. Loomis of Amherst College contends early North American humans existed at least 25,000 years ago. While preparing fossils of mammoth in Florida he found evidence of human life, including an arrowhead embedded between mammoth ribs.
A fragmentary report describes a city founded by Armenians in the Near East, near the Gaueagug mountains, with a village center, residences, barns, sheds, a park, and a potential sale of plots. Names appear in Armenian and Armentia references surface, including Alexandrapol and Sayre. The text recalls historic ties to Philadelphia and a “brotherly” concept.
An unnamed Chinese man in a Western state dies after swallowing opium to avoid arrest. Federal seizure reports trace the chain of events leading to his death from narcotic poisoning. A physician confirmed the death as narcotic poisoning while a companion faced related inquiries in a grim episode tied to forbidden drugs.
Dr Edward Hume president of Yale's China branch told the University club in Pasadena that China will be one of the world's best educated countries. He noted growth from about 1.8 million to 7.9 million students since the fall of the Manchu dynasty and predicted a century for full transformation. China has a 600 enrollment in a Hunan province program with 50 studying medicine.
London reports an Empire exhibition park at Wembley costing 50 million dollars, with a four million dollar amusement area. The project promises a vast collection of seaside rides and water chutes, including a nine foot deep water stage for miniature battles from the Armada to Zeebrugge, to be controlled by electro-shapndts and wireless systems.
Cedar Rapids Iowa Feb 28 The third annual convention of the era Iowa section of the Implement Dealers Association of Iowa opened with about 160 dealers present Mayor C B Huston gave the welcoming address A J Fisiujan Durant Jr is president for the association
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