Would You Make a Flier Alert Mind 5 Needed
By ERWIN GREER president Greer College of Automotive and Electrical Trades Chicago discusses the challenges of training civilians to fly. He argues only a small portion of the population could become competent pilots given the need for natural aptitude, precise handling, navigation skill, and safe engineering, predicting planes may become common only after major safety and control advances.
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Erwin Greer
Greer College of Automotive and Electrical Trades
Chicago
Chevrolet car sales rise in Waterloo and nationwide
Officials of the H. and M. Chevrolet Co. reported increased sales in Waterloo compared with last year and predicted better business ahead. They stated the trend is not confined to Waterloo but is general across the country.
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Waterloo
H. & M. Chevrolet Co
Rosa Ponselle and Pianist Conductor Marriages
The reader notes that Rosa Ponselle and another pianist both married symphony conductors. A quiz item confirms key choices and composers. It mentions Verdi Weber Puc cinoi Nicolai and Tschaikowsky Pathetique along with roles like managing director of the Metropolitan Opera and aForesters estimate about timber burned versus cut.
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Rosa Ponselle
Verdi
Weber
Puccinoi
Nicolai
Palestrina
Paderewski
George Sand
Tschaikowsky
S “Pathetique
Metropolitan Opera Company
Palmero Toll K via New York seven days drive
L. B. Miller completed a cross country record trip in a Chrysler 80. He left San Francisco for New York and returned to Los Angeles in 79 hours 55 minutes, covering 6721 miles with a one minute stop in Waterloo. Miller arrived in New York on June 3.
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L. B. Miller
Waterloo
San Francisco
Cal
New York
Los Angeles
Miller
Transcontinental Night Drive Demonstrates Itcn Ryan Headlights
Miller and J. E. Weiber completed a grueling double transcontinental run from Frisco to New York in under three hours faster than a prior trip, with a 85 mph cap and a 42 mph average. They drove nonstop, surviving on coffee water and occasional ice cream, aided by night driving headlamps from Stover Signal Engineering Racine Wisconsin.
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New York
Frisco
Miller
J. E. Weiber
Portland
Ore
Stover Signal Engineering Company
Racine
Wis
Itcn- Ryan
New MELLO GLO Face Powder Ad Emphasizes Longevity
A vintage advertisement promotes MELLO GLO face powder claiming weather resistance and non drying effects. It touts a "new French Process" and states the powder stays on longer without clogging pores, endorsed by Paul 4 VIS Dry Goods Co.
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Paul
VIS Dry Goods
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Chrysler
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Chamberlain Medicine Company
4Th Avenue
Des Moines
Iowa
Chamberlains
John M. Nix
Optometrist
Franklin St
Watering, Iowa
Standard Oil Company
Indiana
Standard Oil
Waterloo, Iowa
Chemie
Toledo, Ohio
Repass
Black Hawk
Detroit
F. C. B. Detroit
Fedco
Waterloo Motor Sales Co
Franklin
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