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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1928
Page
12
London dispatch notes the Prince of Wales improved public speaking through expert training, adopting calmer gestures such as one hand in pocket and resting on the table, with visibly reduced mannerisms from earlier performances.
Berlin dispatch reports three flat bottomed river steamers built at Cosel near Breslau for Colombian account. The specially constructed boats suit shallow waterways and rapid currents. After successful trial trips on the Oder near Breslau, the vessels have been shipped to Colombia.
Merle R. Elwell of Waterloo and Frank Luke served in the Twenty seventh Aero Squadron of the First Pursuit Group during 1918. Luke, famed as a balloon buster, joined near Verdun in July, downed balloons and planes, fought under harsh orders, and earned recognition from Colonel Mitchell before being shot down near Verdun on September 29, 1918.
An advertisement touts Outgro as a painless antiseptic for chiropodists. It says applying a few drops in the nail crevice reduces inflammation and pain and helps the nail turn outward overnight. The ad notes any bottle can be bought at drug stores.
Walter A. Jessup president of the American Association of State Universities will attend the twenty fifth anniversary of the University of Porto Rico. He and Mrs Jessup left Iowa City for New York and will sail to Rio Piedras on Thursday for a two week stay.
Los Angeles March 6 bachelors guard a Dock street water community near Terminal Island. They threaten to lower 21 houseboats onto the water and tow them to a man free shore if women move in. Visitors are rare and treated with politeness as they defend bachelor life.
An old time notice asks who the Skinniest Man in the World is and promotes McCoy's Tablets with a bold guarantee. It offers a return of purchase price if a thin person does not gain at least five pounds after four sixty cent boxes or two one dollar boxes. It instructs readers to ask for McCoy's Tablets at Robert Drug Co and other druggists in Amierica.
The article describes houseboat residents and laborers taking rests and enjoying lazy rowboat rides and speedboat thrills. They travel in gasoline launches down the channel past Dead Man's Island to sea for fishing expeditions. If the catch is Uberal they return to bachelor homes to cook fish in a manly manner.
Funeral services will be held here tomorrow for Daniel Harrington 47 a farmer of near Hazleton killed in a fall from a ladder to the haymow of his barn. Harrington is believed to have missed his footing and his neck was broken.
The excerpt urges patient parental understanding to shape a child’s emotions and honesty. It recommends daily fruit juice for young children, proper self-care tasks like washing towels, and gradual introduction of raw fruits between ages four and seven to foster independence.
The guidance advises starting with apples pears and berries that are not seedy plus melons and peaches. It recommends using only cooked fruits for supper at this age. After eight, introduce all fruits gradually if sound and ripe and delay strongly acid fruits except in diluted form.
Four men were injured in a blasting powder explosion at a Granville hardware store on March 6 while experimenting with the powder. Harl Muehl and Pred Gaul were seriously burned from head to foot. Joe Nichel and another man sustained lesser injuries.
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