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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1928
Page
16
Auction listing includes living room furniture dining chairs rockers tables desks mirrors and rugs plus sanitary cot and pad kitchen units and various stands. Poultry supplies and baby chicks advertised by multiple Iowa sellers with contact details and prices.
FOR SALE MISC FOR SALE New Googe and Duck and Feather plows all clean new tick Also cangty hen birds Phone 3831 Locust 433 For sale used heating plumbing fixtures store shelving wall cabinets glass display cases dental office equipment office desk store doors transoms door closers See or phone 198 EB J Hosteter R Co Legal NOTICE Appointment of Administrative etc 1928 names and actions.
City council in a special session adopted the consolidated tax levy totaling 245,484 after reporting a budget of 244,083 with allocations to general and sewer funds and other accounts. Ordinances were amended to align with state law for appointing city clerk auditor solicitor and city engineer. Stenotype demonstration to follow by La Salle University at Cates College Monday.
Rev Warren L Steeves pastor of Walnut Street Baptist Church in a parlor sermon condemns bridge and faro as sinful likening them to gambling. He cites dancing church members and pink leases as wrong and urges heart change over mere ceremony, citing conversions among listeners and noting a lack of service that evening.
Miss Mae Daly of Waterloo, a Northwestern University senior, has held the highest score in the university girls liferam throughout the year. The telegraphic match pitted 38 colleges and universities with Miss Daly as top shooter. Miss Daly is daughter of Mr and Mrs J K Duly of 118 Iowa Street.
G A Bowls district superintendent of Northwestern Bell spoke to Waterloo Technical Society on how trans Atlantic telephone marvels combine radio and wired lines to enable long distance service to over 80 cities. He described devices now being manufactured that allow deaf persons to hear over the telephone.
Henry Apfel will celebrate his ninetieth birthday tomorrow with his son Robert Apfel and family from Logan Avenue joining Elmer Apfel and others from 1032 Logan Avenue to travel by motor to Shell Rock for the event. The elder Apfel, a Shell Rock resident for 40 years, is noted as a pioneer photographer with maintained mental faculties and keen interest in current events.
Althouse travels back from California with two feet of snow on the ground. He stopped across towns like Colorado Springs and Albuquerque meeting former Waterlooans and locals, including Rhea Thompson in Albuquerque and Charlie Christensen in Los Angeles. The cross country journey covered routes through Texas New Mexico Arizona and the Santa Fe trail ending near the Mohave desert and the petrified forest.
A nostalgic critique of Johnson Brigham Des Maines and Torch Press novel The Sinclairs of Old Fort Des Moines set in the 1840s frontier Iowa. The reviewer praises its wholesome tone and frontier virtues, noting Mary and Woodruff as central characters, the Des Moines River thread, and the portrayal of pioneer life from Keokuk to Los Angeles.
In 1927 Cambridge Clark lectures, Porster a noted novelist discusses seven aspects of the novel: the story, the people, the plot, fantasy, prophecy, pattern and rhythm. An introductory chapter imagines novelists from Defoe to Joyce at work, pens in hand, papers before them.
The review uncovers Harald Beg as The Gentleman with a Duster and discusses Julius a postwar England tale. It explores baronial wealth, racing heirs, and class feuds centering on Jules and Marjorie amid an array of well drawn characters and English manners. A second thread compares The Unhurrying Chase a French medieval tale of Yves and knighthood with Richard I’s invasion of Angouleme.
A reader notes a long chronicle of the Mississippi and a lively Victorian tone in a tale of revenge, romance, and independence. The review covers Father Mississippi and Rebellion, praising setup, travel, steamboating lore, and a daughter’s fight for autonomy against a tyrannical father.
Mr and Mrs Fred Cropper of 115 Walnut Street assume active management of the Elmer Hotel at Fifth and Jefferson, after taking over a contract with Dr Elmer Dunkelberg, owner. Plans call for converting the 45 room fireproof hotel into an apartment hotel with several small units, reflecting its central business district location on the west side.
The Poudre Putt Beaute Shoppe, formerly at 512 Sycamore street, moved across the street to 607 with Miss Marie Dailey as proprietor. The remodeled shop offers a reception room and nine booths, including a men’s manicure section, described as one of the city’s most modern establishments. Charles Tenenbaum, a manufacturing jeweler, will occupy the former beauty shop location on Monday after relocating from the First National Bank building in December 1926.
Eighteen carloads of Fords passed through Waterloo today. Four carloads were destined for Des Moines, Iowa, while the remaining fourteen carloads continued westward to the coast.
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