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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1927
Page
8
The Iowa senate highway plan would turn Waterloo into a central hub for a vast paved road network. It lists No. 20 east and west No. 218 north and south and No. 59 south of Waterloo as paved routes, building on existing black Hawk county pavement and extending a direct road link to major cities.
Ted Dunn, acclaimed by eastern critics as an outstanding athlete, stars in St Joseph's and Pittsfeld area circles. A versatile player in football and basketball, he is listed among participants for the fourth annual national Catholic Interscholastic basketball tournament opening in Chicago. He hails from a family with ties to Charles City and is noted as a promising all around athlete.
A fragment notes conditions near a crossing where rain affects timing and crossing clearance. It mentions remaining within one mile of the crossing until the weather event passes and the crossing is crossed.
Four Waterloo and Cedar Falls residents hold Iowa official posts in the United Palestine Fund. Barnes Schultz Jacob Cohn and Harry Blatt of Waterloo are on the executive committee and Sam Diamond of Cedar Falls sits on the administrative committee. T A Sutton of Waterloo did not serve on the resolutions committee at the Des Moines state meeting, but spoke at the banquet.
Illinois Central Bears defeated the Maccabees 1 to 14 and Iowa Dairy beat Altstadt and Langjas 18 to 14 in indoor league baseball at the Forum last night. Anderson and Kersey formed the Bears battery while Moreum and Moser worked for the Maccabees. The score tied 14 to 14 in the ninth before the shopmen won. Coates pitched well for the Iowa Dairy, as did O’Connell for the bakers.
W B Hilmer of Waterloo and H W Dawley of Reinbeck lease basement of Lewies grocery in Traer to run a dry cleaning and pressing establishment with shoe repair as a side line. They install modern equipment and opened for business on March 14. Traer has lacked a local dry cleaner for about a year.
Horton residents report Wingsley and Bon plan to move their saw mill to the M. W. Scott farm this week if road conditions permit. The move depends on weather and access routes for equipment and machinery.
The AP notes a heavy national radio slate with Walter Damrosch and the New York Symphony on WEAF, Paul Ash’s band on WGN, a soprano and harpist on WMAQ, a KOA musical comedy, Hawaiian concerts on WHO and KMOX, Scotch songs on KMA, and multiple organ, quartet, and orchestra broadcasts across stations including WLW WLS WHE and KYW. Local lists include recitals from WCAE and WHT, and a three act program from WENE, with numerous times spanning 3 to 11 PM Central. The schedule reflects a thriving midweek network of entertainment connections across major cities.
Loosen Up That Cold With Musterole. Have Musterole handy when a cold starts. It has the advantages of grandmother's mustard plaster without the burn. You feel a warm tingle as the healing ointment penetrates the pores, then a soothing cooling sensation and quick relief. Made of pure oil and mustard with simple ingredients. Used by nurses and doctors for bronchitis sore throat stiff neck pleurisy rheumatism back or joints sore muscles sprains bruises chilblains and more. It may prevent pneumonia and flesh.
The page lists tonight’s film showings including The Lost World at Palace with Bessie Love and Lewis Btone, Tha earth Commandment at Plaza with Belle Bennett, The Magician at Rialto with Terry, and The Lady in Exymine at Strand with Corinne Griffith and Francis X. Bushman. It also notes mayoral and commissioner candidates Wy Hohn A C Heath for public safety and J J Brennan G L Tindquist for public improvements.
Iowa City March 16. Robert M Macy Adel a freshman in the college of applied science has been elected editor in chief of Transit student engineering publication at the University of Iowa. Marvin J Reid Cedar Rapids is the new associate editor.
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