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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1927
Page
15
Legal notice in Black Hawk county District Court May term announces a will and testament instrument purporting to be of Saral ly Cooley, deceased, filed and read on May 23 1927, with May 7 1927 date stated for proof. JL Thompson, Clerk.
Keokuk plans four new power units at a total cost of 2.5 million dollars with work by raftsmen and crews. The addition will extend the plant, supplementing existing capacity as construction continues on sub mains and related facilities. Nearby industry expands with a Keokuk Steel Casting plant addition and a National Carbide plant expansion nearing completion. Street resurfacing is a major item, eight miles planned, with the first mile finished and not expected to delay the rest.
The two day spring conference of the Interstate Association of Retail Secretaries begins Wednesday at Hotel Russell Lami e. Russell L. De Gon, president of Waterloo Retail Merchants association, sent invitations. Members include secretaries of retail merchants’ organizations from Town and Minnesota. The fall conference was at Wingebago, Minn. A theatre party is planned for Wednesday evening.
Hollywood insiders boast of beauty and talent with writers turning to public relations. Dorothy Manners, once a leading actress, now backs fan magazines while Virginia Bradford writes for a Tennessee paper and acts in ingenue roles. Jacqueline Logan, famed as a screen actress, also pens reviews under an alias. Dorothy Spensley covers fan magazines and Julie Lang handles studio publicity.
Frank Case of New York, who closed a profitable bar in 1917 to spare his children exposure to liquor money, has purchased the Hotel Algonquin for 1 million dollars. He began as a clerk years ago while a guest toured to Long Island to film with Mary Pickford.
A National Geographic Society bulletin explains that reduced forests and faster runoff from urban development raise Mississippi flood levels. Levees trap water, while the Atchafalaya diverts up to 350 000 cubic feet per second, widening danger zones from Memphis to New Orleans. Thirty states drain into the system, creating vast continental scale and shifting banks.
Memphis Tennessee May 9. A Red Cross disaster worker named Nelle Williams braved the swollen Mississippi River alone in a small motor launch at night to reach 1000 refugees stranded on a levee north of Helena Arkansas. Williams from Marshall Michigan is a Western State Normal College Kalamazoo graduate and has served with the Red Cross since 1919.
The passage notes a persistent Louisiana shoreline expansion into the gulf with about 11 miles of flat edge before a sudden drop to deep water. Ocean currents may sweep away silt once the Father of Waters reaches this line, spreading sediment across the ocean floor rather than along the coast.
Old horse records reappear in court lists for the first time in weeks beside autos. A charter mortgage of $50 on a horse is noted in the sales contract Coddington & Laird to George Voree. Police reports mention stolen tires and cars while the Togino Avenue Coal Company reports a theft of a complete set of harness.
Washington May 9 An expedition led by H H Roberts Jr from the bureau of American ethnology leaves the Smithsonian to trace the post basket makers relation to Pueblo dwellers. The team will excavate slab houses in Chaco Canyon and then move to Montezuma Creek Utah to compare artifacts and skeletal remains to uncover racial connections.
A reading on palmistry presented by Miss Fawn Lippincut after salmon croquets highlights how hands reveal character. The talk covers thumb shape nail health and finger features as signs of personality and health risks, with cautions about public office and vanity.
A researcher travels to the University of Colorado Museum and to El Paso, Texas, to study a cave group where recent Pueblo culture material has been found. The effort aims to document artifacts and understand their context within regional history.
In Philadelphia Public Ledger a light remark notes that every married woman tells of a rich man she could have married but didn't, while every unmarried woman repeats the same tale to all. It captures social humor of courting and reputation in a concise wry aside.
Hannah Frank transfers block 11 Greenfield Johnston part of lot 6 on Assessor Leland’s plat No 2 AAG to Mary A Daniels. Carrie M Johnston transfers unclear parcel to X J. Fred H Seger transfers lot 4 block Lane & to Peter J Broes.
Ed Madigan serves as treasurer and transfers parcels to Richard Robbins including lots 276 437 186 187 102 and 447 in Pleasant View add G E Fisher transfers lot 2 block 4 Howrey McWilliams replat Charles W Chapman transfers lot 6 Morris Case’s De setae nega ferme wah oases géha Shaffer transfers lot 3 block 3 East Park Place excl 90 ft H T Wagner sheriff transfers lot 3 block 5 Whitney Sedgwick add Caroline Fullerton transfers pilots 10-9 block 47 0 plat west side
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