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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1929
Page
8
Classified ad notes seeds for sale with varieties and prices. Mentions Senator Dunlap and Premier varieties, Everbearing and Champion, prices $1.00 per 100 and $1.25 per 300, contact Hox 263 Fairbank Iowa.
Fragmented classifieds mix dog care tips with urgent sale and wanted notices. Entries mention a boy raised with a dog, various sales of livestock and goods, and multiple WANTED notices for services and secondhand items, reflecting a bustling small-town page.
A series of Iowa court notices in Black Hawk County from 1929 announce proof of will hearings and bankruptcy proceedings. Items include confirmation of the last will and testament of Cella Welter, Louis Altinouse, and J. N. Sweitzer, with hearing dates in March 1929. Also listed is Webster E. Peavey’s bankruptcy and first meeting of creditors scheduled in Waterloo with details of venue and time.
A black man named Thomas Prince faced a $1,000 fine and up to 13 months in jail after pleading guilty to contempt of court for violating a quar injunction. Judge Ralph W. Hasiter imposed the sentence after consultation with M. F. Fields and County Attorney J. W. Gwynne.
February 1929 construction contracts in 97 states east of the Rockies show a 12 percent drop from January and a 22 percent fall from February of last year. Total for February was $361,273,000 with residential and commercial shares dominating. New contemplated projects dropped 18 percent year over year, while central west totals fell 35 percent from February 1928.
Oral arguments in a mandamus suit seek to force the city to issue a permit for a filing station on a triangular block at Campbell avenue and Fourth street west owned by John L. Marquis. Ben F. Swisher for Marquis and city solicitor Carleton Sias clash over zoning rules as Swisher questions constitutionality and cites Des Moines precedent, with opposition contending later rulings erode it.
In a small hamlet near Paris, composer Frederic Delius, half paralyzed and nearly blind, spends his days cared for by his wife. He no longer writes, his hands tremble to strike piano keys, and he gazes at newspapers read aloud by his wife as he endures a quiet decline while distant acclaim eludes him.
Ford Americana near Detroit gathers a vast collection of early American life objects for an ancient village showing Colonial settings, colonial streets and actors in period dress. The project, housed in sheds on the Ford estate at Dearborn, aims to preserve artifacts from Revolution to 1914 18 with a bridge of labor across agriculture manufacturing and transportation.
Amarillo Texas March 9 Charles Goodnight aged 93 last of the three trail blazers who opened the cattle drive to railheads after the Civil War is writing his memoirs with help from his 30 year old wife The Kansas City Star reports the veteran rancher tied to the Panhandle Plains Historical Society reflects on early southwest days He is credited with Palo Duro canyon discovery and the JA ranch venture He and spouses life center around preserving Texas history and cattle breeding efforts.
Rome March 10 The italians have achieved a lead of Mussolini by 4 percent in a day before his proclamation of a new Tlalfai academy. Senator Tilloni presides as president and the National Guhl ronom to academy is established. Headquarters will be in Rome and its statutes aim at cultural and artistic elevation of gastronomy directed toward a phase of apparent decadence.
A weekly Evening Courier column describes a party hosted by Mrs Jordan where children perform stunts rather than play freely. The scene reveals strict, formal activities suppressing natural play, leaving Junior bored and later silent, suggesting repression harms children’s joy and development.
R F Davis of Des Moines today succeeded Paul Wilson as examiner in charge of the receivership of Waterloo Bank and Trust Co Hudson Savings Bank and Jesup State Bank. Davis comes from Marshalltown where he oversaw receiverships of banks there and at Tama. Wilson joins Central Life Insurance Des Moines as examiner in the Investment department. Davis will have offices at 910 11 Lafayette Building.
Deeds filed transferring 360 acres from P V J Summy to Leo F Bedard of Cedar township for 2000 dollars total. The Orange township parcel lies one mile west of Eagle Center road and half a mile south of the graveled road.
M. W. Deputy, president of State Teachers College Bemidji, Minn, credits the department of education with advancing education. He asserts the future school will integrate kindergarten with elementary grades and include pre kindergarten and nursery programs to build a natural, healthy foundation for a child's growth and development.
The Bedard family has taken possession. A long list follows of births in Waterloo and surrounding areas with dates in February and December 1927 and 1027. Names include Lila Jean, Florence Roose, Donald Leroy, Gwendolyn Lucile, Viola Louise, Darleune Mae, Patricia Mary, and others born at St Francis Memorial and Presbyterian hospitals. The notices confirm multiple births to different couples at local residences and hospitals.
Cleland Rausch, a West High senior, was named yesterday as the school’s representative for the national oratorical contest on the constitution sponsored by Drake University Des Moines. He advances through a county district and state progression.
A. G. Willford, president of Town Division, Trank Walton league of America, disputes reports that only six fish died in the Cedar river from dynamite blasts used to break ice. He says hundreds were killed or stunned, with bodies sinking after shock, while some may have revived if left in water. Deputy game warden Joan Jago had cited six. City engineer Nathan B. Barker notes blasting has ended and jams cleared.
The Japanese Navy plans a multi month training cruise around South America led by Vice Admiral Kichizabura Nomura. The squadron will include armored cruisers Asama and Iwate carrying hundreds of naval cadets and may call Brazilian ports amid growing Japanese immigration there.
The Marble Fort, a rose colored marble fortress built under Louis XIV on an older Spanish base, sits on a cliff above the France Spain pass. Its private sale could lead government oversight. few changes allowed without commission consent. Notable prisoners include Louis XIV and German officers from World War I.
Hollywood faces a new dawn as talkies arrive and old stage superstitions resurface. Whistling backstage is taboo after Buddy Rogers nearly cursed a production, cross eyed extras gain on set luck, and actors avoid new shoes in talkie openings. The one persistent superstition remains: do not oversleep and miss Cecil B. DeMille.
Moscow march 9 courses in godlessness started at the Qbuch Physiological Institute. Lectures will be illustrated by experiments to form the basis for anti religious propaganda. Studies cover evolution of the world origin and life of mankind composition and functions of organic life physiological basis of spiritual awakening and science and religion.
A transaction announced yesterday transfers all assets of the Bovee Furnace Works at 180 West Eighth Street to Bartell Schultz for 40000. Schultz plans to continue operations under the Bovee Furnace Works name with about forty to twenty men. The two story stone factory and one story foundry sit on three lots, 180 by 200 feet, with a history dating to 1895. After BD Bovee's death, R W Schear led the firm, which later entered receivership under H Abbs as president and liquidating agent.
The United Brethren, Evangelical, and Reformed churches consider forming a United Church in America. Pastors urge merger while general conferences vote this year. if approved, proposal goes to local congregations. Some leaders decline comment awaiting congregational decision. Bishops and bishops’ delegates back merger, with openness to other denominations joining.
An ad claims tired body cells improve with Father John's Medicine as a tonic that detoxifies and rebuilds flesh without drugs, urging readers to choose the natural remedy over temporary stimulant effects.
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