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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1926
Page
11
Paris summer season draws to a close with Grand Prix at Longchamp on Sunday. Reports highlight rain and wind memories, while fashion contests and royal exile gossip capture attention. American welfare efforts in Chateau Thierry are noted alongside wartime memorabilia and local curiosities.
Mrs. Harrison witnesses a dramatic moment as a massive jan crashes from bush into a Nairobi road and crosses in front of an automobile without reacting. Carter Harrison recounts weeks in East Africa chasing the creature with native beaters but never sighted the elusive beast.
The Wallace Memorial Fund lagged with only eight new contributions since the last report. Total now stands at 243 dollars, list of donors includes Dorothy Uemmer Mabel Hoff Robert Armstrong Bo Ll Johnson Mrs EE L Johnson Eleanor J Williams Theodore M Rehder and Joseph P Chapman. Fundraiser sponsored by West High School Alumni Association to honor the late superintendent of West Adalts, with Fred Wray as treasurer at Pronger National Bank.
London dispatch reports Caesar's Camp at St George's Hill near Woking as old Roman fortifications to be erased for vacant lots and modern flats. Commissioned by the works, the Walton Town council appeal to preserve the site was refused as unnecessary and uneconomical to keep idle.
John Bailey, the English critic, in his new life of Walt Whitman credits him with being the most original genius America has yet produced. He notes Whitman was often an artist by accident and sometimes not an artist or poet at all, yet he remained self satisfied.
Ellsworth College Iowa Falls Iowa enrollment reaches about 801 in summer school, up roughly 40 percent from prior years. Largest contributing counties include Hamilton Hardin Wright Franklin Grundy Story with students from Cerro Gordo Webster Black Hawk Clinton Butler Dickinson Hancock Bremer Calhoun Humboldt Winnebago and Lyon also attending.
Oskaloosa June 28 AP A man Cyrus Craig believed killed by accidental gun discharge at a residence while Milton Wirkendad who was with him is held for coroner jury report.
Jacob Holder Jr a longtime Waterloo resident now on furlough with his father at 1421 Jefferson Street will rejoin the U S S Bridge supplying ship July 5 and is slated to be discharged September 26. He recounts service in two wars and visits to ports worldwide including five crossings in the World War.
New Hampton will gravel its outlying streets this summer using gravel from a city pit in the southeast part of town. The pit, three quarters of an acre, was bought from the Bigelow estate by the city council for 3150 dollars.
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