Moline Airport a Show Place of the City
Waterloo Waterloo Evening Courier profiles Moline's five year old airport as a national example of sport and business aviation. It notes air mail use, private pilots, and tours, with a $55,000 field investment and ongoing plans to expand. The piece highlights neon tube beaconing, reliability tours, and the airport as a social and economic asset drawing crowds and advertising.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moline
Waterloo
Rusty” Campbell
Waterloo Evening Courier
Wilbur B. Mueller
Mueller
Moline Daily Despatch
John
Aunt Mary
Air Mail
Detroit
Franing Field
Moline Airport
United States
E. E
Campbell
Travel Air
Wichita
Kan
Sam McGinnis
Rusty
Weather Bureau
United States Weather Bureau
Bartelson
Chicago
Mystery Murder Case In Battery Park Leaves Parts Found
New York police probe a brutal homicide after two patrolmen found a bundle in Battery Park containing severed legs of a young woman wrapped in brown paper. The grisly package suggests an ax or hatchet used, with possible disposal from a Staten Island ferry. Investigators search upper bay for more body parts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
INS
Battery Park
Upper
Staten Island
Kruder
Hughes
First Caterpillar Magnet Crane Lifts 19 Tons in Waterloo
The first Caterpillar electro magnetic crane in Waterloo, owned by junk dealer B Schultz, loaded 19 tons of scrap iron in a single lift. Equipped with a 70 horsepower engine and 45 inch magnet, it can load a car of scrap iron in under an hour and saves labor. Built by Orton Crane & Shovel Co. of Chicago, it moves independently and can operate at Schultz yards and local factories, unlike rail only or overhead track cranes in use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterloo
B. Schultz
Commercial Street
Illinois Central Railroad
John Deere Tractor Company
Ilinois Central
John
Schultz Yards
Orton Crane & Shovel Co
Chicago
Schultz
Cambridge Oxford Team Defeats Yale Harvard in Track Meet
Cambridge and Oxford combined beat Yale and Harvard 7 to 5 in Stamford Bridge meeting. The British team secured 7 first place points and 11 second places, with only firsts counting toward the score.
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Cambridge
Oxford
YALE
Harvard
Stamford Bridge
Eng
Library budget set at 317135 for 1928 29
The city council will consider a library operation budget of 317,135 dollars for the year April 1, 1928, to April 1, 1929, at Monday’s meeting. The library board approved the amount at a yesterday session, matching this year’s figure and surpassing last year by 500 dollars.
Census Counts 4587 Children in West District
Census figures list 4587 school age children in the west district. The count includes both boys and girls as part of the district’s school population reported to authorities.
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West District
License 18 issued for circue July 24
D Engle advance agent for Hagenbeck-Wallace shows filed a license with Charles MacKay city clerk to perform at Cedar River park on July 30.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. Engle
Charles MacKay
Cedar River Park
West side census shows 5814 children under 21 enrolled
Charles A. Kittrell announces the west district census totals 5814 children under 21 with 2840 boys and 2964 girls. The report notes 3 more children five to 21 than last year and a drop of 44 boys offset by 47 more girls. Census will be filed on flexible cards and not repeated for several years.
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Charles A. Kittrell
West Schools
J. A. Anders
West Side
West District
Kittrell
Ygee
Emerson
Whittier
Lowell
Irving
Edison
Kingsley
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By Wilbur B. Mueller
Claude Neon
Croydon
London
E. K. Campbell
Strawberry Point
Altho
Roy Mellvain
Gustaf de Schepper
Wallace
Bettendorf
Mcline
Corona Avenue
Wesley Smith
Philadelphia
Floyd Ketner
C. C. Sloan
Wee
Campbell-DeSchepper Airplane Company
Franingfield
Maywood Field
Sam
National Air Transport, Inc
School of Aeronautics
Milwaukee
Iowa City
St. Louis
Activ
E. RK
Rusty) Campbell
Airport
Motine
Tony
Pitcairn
Francis
Wireless Wizard
Essex
Council
Library Board
Francill
Radio Wizard
Waterloo Insurance
Agency
Lafayette
Suiper
Hudson- Essex
Franklin Street
Waterloo Company
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