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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1928
Page
3
The Waterloo Courier notes unseasonable warmth stalled anti smoke drive and urges renewed effort. It argues progress requires cumulative public education and persistent action to abate smoke for property, health, and city welfare, urging groups to stay engaged and renew momentum.
In Chicago a man without pilot qualification carried a passenger in an unlicensed plane. The craft crashed from about 200 feet, injuring the passenger while the uninjured pilot was only lightly hurt. The piece argues for strict regulations to keep unsafe aircraft and untrained aviators on the ground and notes Iowa still lacks a driver licensing law.
The Chicago Tribune and Chicago News launched a joint publicity drive to reveal vice and gambling. They published lists with owners, addresses, and syndicate details, asserting large daily sums and widespread alcohol sales networks to spur public attention and action.
Edward Fosse of Merion Pennsylvania pursued Ruth Key Alkmar for 35 years sending more than 1909 love letters. Ruth finally rejected the obsessive suitor and he agreed to cancel his subscription. The muddled tale echoes a comic decline from grand grandiose claims to a quiet exit.
A health chat by Dr S Adolphus Knopf and a hygiene teacher argues on tuberculosis risks for young women. They discuss predisposing causes from fashion and dieting to makeup and restrictive garments, urging caution against unhealthy body images and practices while stressing health and hygiene.
Readers seek cures for imagined ailments and eye care distinctions. Articles include advice on relieving phantom pain by imagining surgery, mosquito control in damp cellars by draining water or using oil films, and a discussion distinguishing a real oculist from an eye ear nose and throat specialist.
Glenn Frank argues air power will shape future trade and diplomacy much as Mare Liberum framed sea power. He compares Grotius to a potential modern Aer Liber, predicting that air routes will redefine customs, borders, and global commerce, with freedom of movement by air influencing policy and wealth.
New York March 26. Theatrical families have scattered to hotels apartments clubs and Hollywood villas as private homes fade from the scene. Publicity for Broadway shows grows into a modern organized business with agencies handling multiple shows and big theatre advertising budgets while ordinary life in the city remains tense after a dramatic elevator incident.
A reader reflects on lipstick habits and beauty routines, noting how a girl covers flaws with makeup. The piece ends with a playful cue about brightening a friend's mood with a cute smile.
Uncle Wiggily with Baby Bunty and Yallie reach the North Pole to meet a Sea Lion that flounders on the ice. The sea creature brags about legs or lack thereof while the rabbit voices doubt about their volcanic journey from Mt Ve suvius.
Uncle Wiggily and Bunny friends meet Eski the Eskimo bunny in the North Pole. They arrive from Holland and Italy and seek warm sealskin furs from Sealie. A shaggy musk ox Dustie bursts from a cave as the tale promises more adventures tomorrow night.
UNCLE RAY'S CORNER explains that Phoenicians, great ancient seafarers along the eastern Mediterranean coast, traded ivory gold ostrich feathers spices and jewels with far nations. Through travel they learned many things and invented an alphabet later refined by Greeks and Romans.
Fifty years ago on March 27 1878 a gray wolf measured five and a half feet from nose to tail was shot near the La Porte road by M G Denniston and J R Hostetler after it rose to fight. Several other wolves were seen nearby as rural Waterloo notes cover local farm news and early potatoes from Egypt and Jews.
Fortieth anniversary items from Des Moines report Republican state convention results with at large delegates from Dubuque Des Moines Fort Dodge and Sioux City plus third district selections. Also notes about clothing store moves in Waterloo a ministerial meeting Grace Church events and local high school oratorical contest with listed speakers.
A full page ad from the Waterloo Auto & Supply Co on Jefferson Street promotes used cars offered cheaply after complete overhauls. Prices start at $450 with daily $5 price drops if not sold first day. The ad notes early automobile features and historic appeal. Also mentioned are embalmer Victor Zellhoefer passing a licensing exam, a Mitchell dispatch on farmers seeding, a West High School play titled The Minister's Parish with listed cast, a plan to repair St Mark's Church, and Bishop Morrison conducting confirmations at Christ Episcopal Church amid illness.
Nature Notes column asks readers for questions on birds, orchards and pests. Answers cover Baltimore orioles in apples, the dusky white butterfly spread from Europe, cotton fiber in its seed pod wrapping, woodpeckers and fruit-tree damage, Carolina parakeet survival, and rat-borne plague transmission.
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