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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1928
Page
3
The fragment shows masthead boilerplate for the Waterloo Evening Courier with addresses, pricing notes, circulation, and policy statements. It references the Associated Press rights, postal classification, and advertising rules, plus representative offices and contact lines.
A Waterloo businessman visiting Iowa City notes vast campus expansion. He highlights the Memorial Union, new chemistry and dentistry buildings, Old Capitol area improvements, WSUI radio atop engineering hall, the 20 000 to 25 000 spectator field, the west campus golf course, the field house with a 50 yard pool, a large indoor track, dormitories, a civic hospital, and new medical labs plus a general hospital under construction. He urges others to visit their university.
In Salisbury North Carolina a patrolman stops a motorist for illegal parking and charges him with driving while intoxicated. The jailed driver turns out to be Rev Arthur T Abernathy Rutherford College president and mayoral figure, who admits drinking after giving a temperance speech. He pleads guilty pays $100 fine loses license and faces public derision.
Arthur Brisbane recalls a suggestion for a single large parachute to lower an airplane in distress, eliminating passenger parachutes unless needed. A California inventor has made the scheme work, with a courageous pilot involved in the testing and validation of the concept.
Stopping the engine at 2200 feet, a small parachute released a 72 foot silk canopy to steady the craft. The plane had minor damage, the pilot was unharmed, and the device worked except for a tendency to spin. The Salt Lake City to Washington contract holder plans to use it on ships once perfected. It may become the safety device aviation has sought to restore confidence in air travel. A passenger might prefer drifting down like a balloon to leaping from a disabled liner.
A health column discusses The Friendly Arctic by Vilhjalm Stefansson and recalls a Minnesotan debate over eating raw fish versus cooked. It notes the presence of Diphyllobothrium latum tapeworm in freshwater fish, including pike and perch, linked to raw or underdone preparations and warns readers to rely on physicians for diagnosis and treatment.
The column discusses rupture treatment, noting radical cures do not remove tissue and some repairs fail. It advises surgery for rupture and warns against patents or plasters claiming cures. Other letters address bowlegs, weight gain, and correcting diets for anemia and constipation.
Glenn Frank argues that Mussolini’s dream of a vast technical elite is mirrored in the United States. He warns that a disciplined technical aristocracy is forming outside political life and will dominate American public affairs unless the sacrificings and duties of leadership are embraced. The piece discusses the concept of a self sacrificing aristocracy defined by service and willingness to endure hardship.
A vivid extended jotted scene of Broadway and New York streets captures heat, crowds, pests, and fashion notes amid tainted tips, carriages, and taunting storefronts. The author catalogues performers, cabriolets, tabloids, police raincoats, and oddities from self appointed valet tips to horse blanket garments, ending with a vignette of Uncle Wiggily and neighborhood play.
Uncle Wiggily tests Bail Charn to guess three old fashioned flowers. The Gator claims buttercup three times, but Uncle Wiggily outwits him and takes blossoms for himself. He returns home with violets, slippers, and four o’clock flowers for his wife.
Children guess game titles from pictures while a loud noise interrupts near a bungalow. A whimsical note recalls tandem bicycles and the era of two riding together, with a humorous scene of mounting the bicycle and the front rider’s balance determining success.
In a sanitized excerpt from Joy Street Gay Hilton a 20 year old private secretary becomes a fledgling model in New York. She endures harsh lights and direction on a ballroom set while male peers critique her looks. She befriends Flick Bar and wonders what his presence means at Paradox Studios as the story continues.
A 1928 nature notes feature invites readers to submit questions about nature. it promises answers in the next issue. It lists sample queries on mockingbirds everlastings and pig cleanliness, and provides an unfinished discussion on spider web construction and the way spiders extend silk lines to span gaps.
New York scholars challenge classic myth status and press a historic trial to prove Socrates real. Durant notes Socrates as myth to some, while Greek courts and historians insist on his factual role in ancient dialectic. The piece contrasts modern and ancient views of the philosopher.
The mantis, called praying insect for its folded forelegs, has long intrigued many cultures. While revered in some lands, it is feared as a fierce hunter in others, capable of eating many pests yet prone to intra-species clashes. In the southern United States it lurks on window sills and stalks flies and caterpillars, sometimes dining on Colorado potato beetles. Tomorrow A Life Saturday Talk.
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