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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1928
Page
3
The Watertown Evening Courier discusses a report by the United States Chamber of Commerce postal service committee. It argues current mail rules are inequitable and costly, driving away private mailing cards and raising rates on advertising and news distribution, harming publishers and the public interest.
English doctor Dr Alice Hutchison tells school nurses that superficial harmony between mother and father calms children, yet critics note irony. The piece rails at blaming parents for every modern social ill and argues against sole parental fault for childish quarrels like hide and seek.
Iowa legislators endorse a special session pledge to submit a $100,000,000 state highway bond measure to voters. The move, supported by a majority in both houses, aims to avoid delays and ensure the bond program is decided by the electorate.
Officials of 52 leading insurance companies in New York report 1927 as probably the healthiest year in the nation's health history. Death rate per 100000 insured was about 55 lower than 1926, saving roughly 65 000 lives across the country. The 127 death rate also fell 12.2 from 1925 and 4.5 from 1921, with insurers credited for the gains alongside public authorities.
Dr Brady discusses why cold germs require other factors to inflame, debunking old “lowered resistance” ideas. He cites studies: about 80 percent harbor nonvirulent pneumococci and 20 percent carry virulent forms at times, but carriers do not explain most infections. The piece blends reader Q and A on nutrition and infant care, plus a note inviting stamped letters for health questions.
A lively column by O C McIntyre sketches a Brooklyn to Broadway panorama of New York nightlife. It names Peggy Joyce Giorgio Arliss George Arliss Julia Hoyt Lewis Calhern Otis Kahn and Roy Howard among others while describing theater life fashion street scenes and the public gaze. The piece notes the photograph craze the Winter Garden crowd and the transient celebrity fever in the city.
Ghenn Frank argues ancestry shapes modern identity, blending Greek and Roman legacies with modern traits. He explores social and physical heredity, stressing Greece as life’s pleasures and Rome as organization, urging a balance of inner inspiration and practical governance.
In a frosty morning scene Uncle Wiggily answers a timid knock at his stump bungalow. Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuz cannot wash dishes and reminds him not to assume who arrived, hinting at the SkiMery Scullery Alligator with double jointed feet.
A whimsical school scene centers on Miss Mouse teacher and Uncle Wiggily who agrees to gather dried corn stalks for a pretend Indian tent in a Little Farm Play. Whispering noises in the classroom are traced to rustling stalks as a breeze blows through an open window.
Dexter Haines plans aid for Mona French drawn into blackmail. Mona’s scheming exposes her true nature as a gold digger while Dexter grapples with shaken faith in mankind. The scene centers on a forged letter, a demanded fifty thousand dollars, and a moral reckoning as Mona tightens her grip.
Abe Martin comments on Sen Curtis of Kansas being Indian and on Jake Bentley's whiskers as Indiana nears a Democratic governor race. He jokes that long hair should grow until women gain independence and accept alimony, reflecting satirical frontier humor of the era.
Answers to prior questions cover bear mating seasons in North America, tassels on corn stalks and cat pollination, and biblical references to tame birds. The text includes garbled OCR details about species, plant biology, and historical practices, with notes attributed to J. Ab and Ty North America in Rutumna.
UNCLE RAY describes a $125000 Omaha Bee News press with nine units. 90 feet long, paper from below, huge rolls, monthly ink bill around 50000. It speeds 2600 papers of 16 pages each per minute. Also includes a call to vote for heroes and a mail coupon drive for Uncle Ray's Cartier.
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