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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1929
Page
3
Water loo Know Waterloo week promotes civic pride and local industry awareness. Chamber of commerce partners urge residents to tour downtown displays, note Waterloo’s products, production numbers, and workers supported by local business activity. The effort aims to boost community knowledge and talking points about the city’s size and resources.
The article argues for prompt reapportionment of House seats based on population shifts since 1910. It notes states with growth seek larger influence while Iowa would drop from 11 to nine, urges obeying the Constitution, and warns against protecting sectional advantage. It asserts redistribution preserves a balanced, orderly Congress and resists widening the already bulky chamber.
Secretary of Commerce Lamont argues for commercial reforestation to restore timber-rich lands idle across millions of acres. He notes forests replenish and cites vast idle farm and undeveloped lands suitable for planting. He warns of rapid timber depletion due to pulp and lumber demands and calls for a tariff on green beans with strings attached.
In 1928 university health checks show up to 67 percent infected in some schools with ringworm of the feet. Cause is a fungus,Triophyton, thriving in warm moist wool socks and footwear. Whitfield ointment prescribed for sodden ringworm. cautions on stronger forms. Shoeware disinfection using formaldehyde advised. avoid barefoot gym floors.
Glenn Prank, president of the University of Wisconsin, argues newspapers must remain news focused and profitable while schools must provide substantive, readable ideas. He urges joint responsibility to popularize new ideas and spiritual values for better education and journalism, beyond mere space for school coverage.
Local notes recount Cedar Falls preparing for a July Fourth celebration with ovation dinner dance sports and improvements along Commercial Street. Wool carding offered by P Jordan Cesar Palis with lard sent per eight pounds. Des Moines Journal reports Frank Reno shot by Indians. Tommy Goughnottr Jr drowns in Black Hawt creek after swimming with Watters brothers. search finds his bag as boy did not return.
Waterloo invites all to a grand parade program in Washington park races and evening fireworks for a $5,000 city celebration on July 4. Fort Dodge news notes council allows six mul cows to roam city streets triggering outrage and an indignation meeting.
A packed convention in Cleveland Ohio drew 3 500 people by rail and on horseback to denounce the Fugitive Slave Law and the Dred Scott decision. Speakers included Giddings Wade Chase Spaulding and others. Napoleon expects a short war and notes plans for a four month campaign.
A June Washington Daybook item by Herbert O. Plume recounts gossip and random nominating footnotes from White House circles. It notes interview reluctance by Alice Roosevelt Longworth, bond requirements for postmasters and collectors, and memories of Sousa and the Marine Band era. It also mentions Hoover era real estate sales near his summer playground and a Cleveland Plain Dealer dispute over party origins.
A column opens with a playful verse about affection and the Blarney Stone. It moves to a poetry contest offering a prize of W. L. Christman’s Songs of the Helderhills. Then a humorous note on fashion and heat at Galveston, followed by a report from Burlington Gazette on Chicago's first steel skyscraper tearing down in 1887 to study its enduring steel framework for future construction.
In a reflective piece from New York, June 12, the writer paints a portrait of famous figures like Earl Carroll, Mike Banquo, Henry L. Boherity, J. P. Morgan, and Charles Frohman, highlighting how success often accompanies isolation, modest living, and disdain for crowds. The essay notes the gap between public image and private life, with mentions of theater, explorations, and social attitudes toward Westerners.
A vintage page presents several arithmetic brain teasers with quick prompts. It notes answers appear on the Society Page and asks readers to compute items such as fares, travel times, coal costs, cigars, marble division, and pencil counts.
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