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Newspaper

Waterloo Evening Courier

Location

Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Mar 12, 1929

Page

3

Waterloo Iowa Daily Newspaper Rates and Policies

Waterloo Iowa daily paper lists editors Samuel Hartman and Jackson McCoy, with subscription rates by carrier and mail. It notes delivery areas, classified rates, and payment terms, plus affiliations with Associated Press and Audit Bureau of Circulations. It warns of standard advertising rules, rejection of certain ads, and office representatives in major cities.

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Road bond row prompts constitutional amendment idea

Editorial argues the state should amend the constitution rather than rely on the costly road bond law. It notes test cases go to the supreme court, urges following the organic law process, and rooms the delay harming Iowa’s highways with poor roads.

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Conscience Drives Neighbor to Fatal Self Destruction

A northwest community faced a shocking self-inflicted death as an Idaho farmer, remorseful over his son's death last summer, blew himself up with dynamite in front of his wife. A neighbor’s boy had died after a disturbed episode with a stick punishment. A coroner absolved the farmer of blame, citing an enlarged thymus in the boy, yet the man's internal torment proved incurable. The piece argues that a guilty conscience can be as devastating as any legal punishment.

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Black on White and the Sooty Winter It Shambles

A winter with four feet of snow disrupts Waterloo area travel and exposes a grave air pollution problem. The essay condemns thick black smoke as a public health threat, arguing it shows a community failure to protect citizens. It urges action against the sooty pollution enveloping snow and daily life.

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Italia airship Italia report blames General Nobile for disaster

The Italian commission’s investigation assigns the Italia tragedy to bad airmanship and crew mismanagement. General Nobile, commander of the expedition, is held fully responsible and reportedly sought resignation after the report. The inquiry clarifies events before the airship crashed on the pack ice, a mystery for months.

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Nobile Expedition Crew Criticized For Missteps

The inquiry found the crew largely ignored orders, threw ballast, and opened hydrogen valves, causing a crash. Nobile faced blame for not hiring a trained airship pilot and for assembling a mixed crew of Italians and foreigners, scientists, journalists, sailors, riggers, and civilians. Comene Byrd’s careful personnel choices are noted as a factor in his greater early success.

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Personal Health Service with Dr William Brady

Health column discusses dangers of extreme dieting for young women, notes height and weight tables outdated, urges gradual weight management for aged 20 and above, and offers practical tips. Includes reader questions on nervous energy and digestion with doctor responses.

The Sin of Disunity by Glenn Prank

The essay argues disunity is humanitys great sin and champions difference as a catalyst for progress while warning unity should not erase individuality. It traces unity from individuals to nations, noting rulers cultivate fear to stifle local distinctiveness yet envisions unity as harmonious coexistence with freedom.

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Jest a Moment spring song and headlines from mid century

A columnish jumble mocks spring weather, politics and daily life with verse about spring from late March to June 21, plus satirical notes from New York Mayor Walker and President Hoover. It includes jokes on committee clerks, a jab at rotogravure, and a Fort Dodge Messenger note on urban noise pollution.

Lent and My Church Meditation in Youthful Vision

A devotional exploring church as a young, ever renewing body. It speaks of prophetic future goals, a program, and promises for a better world. The reading emphasizes hope, cheerful endurance, and trust in divine promises as the church moves toward a new heaven and earth.

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Bowery in winter gloom and urban life contrasts

A New York winter portrait notes freezing weather chilling Bowery and Lower East Side life. Desolate sidewalks, crowded lodging houses, and pawn shops contrast with Chinatown security and a rich Bowery Savings Bank amid poverty. The piece laments urban noise and haste as signs of barbarism.

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Brain Tests on Country Names From Society Page

A reader exercise titled Brain Tests shows a list of poetic country names with numeric options. Readers must match Erin and other terms to the correct country numbers, with four minutes allotted for completion and answers to appear on the society page.

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A Synthetic Cowboy and the Yale Man Myth

A Philadelphia Public Ledger column notes the romance of a Chicago girl engaged to a cowboy. The piece argues a Yale graduate cannot become a cowpuncher in four months, and mocks the idea that formal schooling quickly crafts skilled frontier work such as barbed wire repair.

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Views on Constitution Protection in Grungry Center Letter

In a March letter to the editor William G. Kerr defends constitutional safeguards amid road bond act debates before the supreme court. He recalls historic checks on executive legislative and judicial power, praising the court’s unanimous affirmation of constitutional protections and noting fears of political manipulation.

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Captain’s social duties aboard the America and past passenger ships

A veteran sea captain recalls the social obligations aboard passenger liners, detailing open cabin access, passenger inquiries on weather and arrival times, and the contrast between prewar third class quarters and postwar luxuries. He traces service history from the America to the Peninsular State later named the President Roosevelt, notes rescue duties, and describes modern bridge protocols and passenger limits.

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