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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1927
Page
5
The fragment presents advertising rates and newspaper policy boilerplate. It includes references to branch exchange, Sunday editions, Associated Press, and postal notices, with incomplete names and scattered credits. No clear news event is described.
A fragmented discussion on a spring music festival criticizes the opening recital for lacking high artistry. The piece urges that arts education from kindergarten through college nurture civilization and cultivate a more desirable general attitude in children and youth.
A New York case features Ruth Snyder and Henry Gray charged with murdering a defenseless man. Police say the crime was staged as a burglary with chloroform and strangulation, the house left in disarray and the bodies bound. Confessions point to a deadly plot and a public fate for the killer, the electric chair looming as a grim possibility.
A pending Supreme Court case questions how illegal income, such as bootlegging proceeds, should be taxed and whether illegal earnings can serve as incriminating evidence. The opinion contrasts bootleggers breaking prohibition with tax law, noting the strangeness of enforcing taxes on unlawful gains and the difficulty of obtaining convictions from illegal income.
The St. Louis Civic Union, pushing to censor theater and films, found nothing objectionable by 1927 standards. Leaders lament the reform effort and wonder at the moral state of the city as they confront an apparently unrestrictive exhibition scene.
An old advertisement seeks migraine volunteers for a threefold trial using plain cod liver oil, daily sun exposure, calcium salts, and thyroid tablets to test calcium metabolism effects on migraine. It promises negligible risk, urges participation, and invites reports of results to settle calcium treatment questions.
A mother asks when to start solids for a six month old with two teeth and weighs 14 pounds. The answer advises starting as teeth appear, offering well cooked vegetables strained, meat broths two or three times weekly, occasional bacon rind, cod liver oil daily to prevent rickets, and continuing fruit or tomato juice from infancy to prevent scurvy.
The essay argues that many small lies stem from a hunger for prestige. It uses examples from family life and public figures to show adults unconsciously shaping statements to boost status. Confronting this tendency requires adults to master the impulse and teach honesty to children.
Fairfield Ledger argues people living along the upper Mississippi and its tributaries bear responsibility for southward flood devastation. It says drainage ditches, built to straighten waterways, worsen floods downstream, heightening danger and leaving communities unable to cope during catastrophes.
Ottumwa Courier discusses a campaign by the National Association of Orchestra Directors to elevate and refine jazz, arguing it reflects modern life but lacks real depth. The piece questions whether jazz can reach the level of Beethoven Wagner Saint-Saens until society develops greater death and insight.
A New York diary tone piece recounts Kin Hubbard's radio tour and a playful letter from William Coler, with urban chatter from Greenwich Village and Times Square. It notes cocktail lore, witty banter at banquets, late arrivals by public figures, and a humorous exchange with a police officer.
Uncle Wiggily returns to his hollow stump bungalow to a big bunny welcome. Mrs Longears and Nurse Jane prepare the forty seven little bunnies for a schoolless day of celebration. A Bear interrupts with a playful adventure but a vase of May flowers causes a harmless bump to Mr Longears as the family shares joy and plans for new adventures.
The Gray Phantom roams the crime scene seeking the killer of Sylvanus Gage while his new identity as Thomas Granger draws little police notice. He tailors a cautious path through Pell Street’s Chinese quarter to Dr Bimble’s shadowed neighborhood, noting a vacant boarded house amid a housing famine and a wary pattern of spies.
UNCLE RAYS CORNER explains simple glass water tricks for kids. It covers turning a full glass upside down under a paper shield and a coin vanish routine with a prepared rim paper, urging practice over the sink and careful handling for safe, playful demonstrations.
The piece discusses the idea of having a pull with various people such as a street car motorman or a cafeteria worker and how many feel privileged to take shortcuts. It notes that while many imagine special influence, in the end most people end up on a level playing field, and warns that those who seem to have pull may be manipulating them.
The notes column invites readers to send questions on nature subjects to the Nature Notes Dept. of the paper for general interest answers. Copyright dated 1927. produced by Houghton Mifflin Co. for the Burroughs Nature Club.
The column answers reader questions on wildlife and ecology. It explains pine tail length varies by species, whether purslane is edible, why partridges drum, how birds use fibers in mud nests, captive polar bears needs, and snake scales as part of the skin with shed skins showing thin membranes.
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