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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1927
Page
9
A dense mix of classified ads and public notices from 1920s era sources. Items include sale offers for Underwood typewriters, radios, furniture, and Japanese harvester sale warnings, plus property and sheriff notices for Black Hawk County Iowa. Legal notices announce executrix appointments and public auctions, with official names, dates, locations, and amounts.
The Black Hawk County Board of Supervisors meets by adjournment with members present. Officials approve bonds for clerks and transfers between funds. A hearing date is set for the Gilbertville-Subilee Secondary Road No. 12 and daily adjournments noted.
Washington D C July 7 0 a new cry In United States naval history will dawn when coal burning battleships are converted to oil fuel The Wind Wyoming and New York will receive oil burning furnaces modernizing their innards to join first rate fleets This marks the fulfillment of a program begun over sixteen years ago when oil was deemed more desirable as ship fuel The era of coal burners fades as the romance of coal power declines two ships remain to be modernized a historic shift in naval propulsion
The text notes 1910s ships like the North Dakota becoming oil fueled and undergoing reconditioning in major yards such as Boston Philadelphia and Norfolk. It highlights advantages of oil including cleaner burning and higher efficiency, with warships moving toward electric propulsion for turbines and submarines.
Thousands of Arctic deer swam the Yukon and Yukon rivers and moved across hills along both sides for miles near Anana and McKinley country. Passengers aboard the Levering observed 3000 to 6000 caribou at once, with many crossing into streams and lassoed for meat. Domesticated reindeer mingled with wild herds as caribou and reindeer fed on moss beds toward Mount McKinley foothills, signaling a late winter migration.
In Bentonville Arkansas on January 1 a colorful feature describes night fox hunts in the Ozark hills. It notes packs of 20 to 35 dogs, drivers by automobil es, and camp life with fiddlers and square dances. J Wade Sikes, 98, a Confederate veteran and lawyer, is cited as the oldest foxhunter, who began at age 12 and still stays up all night to deliver campfire reminiscences.
Fire at Waterloo Painting Works on Sixth Street West caused damage estimated at 55 early today. Firemen extinguished the blaze with water guns. Advertisement urges insurance with contact Herman C. Miller at phone 2404.
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