New Fiction Volumes Arrive at Waterloo Woman's Club Library
The Waterloo Woman's Club Library at Schune Man's Drug Store receives a parade of new novels and works. Notables include Bad Girl by Vina Delmar, The Key of Life by Frances Brett Young, The Island Within by Ludwig Lewisohn, Debonair by G B Stern, The Hotel by Elizabeth Brown, Home to Harlem by Claude McKay, Deluge by A Fowler Writh, The Greene Murder Case by S S Van Dine, Behind That Curtain by Zarl Derr Bigeers, Alive in the Delighted States by Edward Hope, and other titles. Also listed are recent mysteries, humor, and war era reads, with titles like The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Red Rust among the offerings.
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Waterloo
Schuneman
Vina Delmar
Dot
Eddie
Daisy
Daphne
Iose Nacauley
Frances Brett Young
England
Thebes
Ludwig Lewissohn
G. B. Sterni
Coolidge
Sinclair Lewis
Lowell Schmaley
Zetith
Elizabeth Brown
Julian Green
Tor May
Avarice House
Harlem
Claude Mckayhe
A. Fowler Wrrth
Martin
Claire
Helen
Johnny
Myrule Johnsont
Ireland
Somerset Maugham
Edward Hope
Sarah Gereride Milind
the Gypsy
Ww. B. Truess
Peggy
Ethel Mdelt
Claire Ambler
Booth Tarkington
Beatty and
The
Beast
Kathleen Norrish
Arthur Travis
London
E. FP. Benson
Basil King
Daughters of Folly
Cosmo Hamilton
Smith
New York Democratic Newsaper
New York World
Gov. Smith
Hail Damage Costs Iowa Crops Over Five Years
Des Moines May 19 hail damage to Iowa crops over five years averages 4,881,188 yearly. In 1927 damage reached 55,064,717, 4 percent above the five year average, with some years exceeding by 1,750,000 to 3,000,000. In 1925 the worst year, 7,975,691.
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Corer Special Services
Des Moines
Iowa
Weather and Crop Bureau
Davis Coumty
Dubuque Soung
Clinton County
Eden Township
Keokuk
English River
Wapsie Rod and Gun Club to Build Blinds Near River
Independence May 19 The Wapsie Rod and Gun Club formed last week adopted by-laws to promote hunting and fishing along the river north of Independence. The club will build blinds on leased lands for members and guests and for all boys under legal age. A committee will erect blinds and instruct underage boys in hunting and enforce game laws and river pollution control.
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Wapsie Rod and Gun Club OF Independence
Courier Special Service
Independence
Wapsie Rod and Gun Club
Soldier tips on catching fish from a playful poem
A wartime humor style piece presents spoof fishing tips attributed to a U S Army Recruiting Service sergeant. It jokes about feeding worms dynamite and diving to the bottom to wake fish, with quirky lines about mirrors on lines and crowds gathering for fish supper. The piece reads as light entertainment with incomplete lines and odd rhymes.
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Spt
William Herren
U.S. Army Recruiting Service
Lafayette Guilding
Flick Barry and the mirror of his father’s advice
Finish and Park avenues in Palm Beach Hollywood Santa Barbara Monte Carlo Chicago London and Long Island all knew him as Flick Barry a popular man. He charmed colleagues and subordinates with a joke and a ready smile while his father’s secretary and the office staff admired him. His father warned him to avoid paying above the market and Flick remembered the lesson as he traveled with Gay Hathaway, a setup for the next chapter.
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Flick
Barry
Chopper
Flick Barry
Gay Hathaway
Gay
Cinderella
Willy
Broadway
Joy Street romance amid New York intrigue
Gay Hilton a 20 year old private secretary to Howard Weston is offered 500 to travel to New York and vanish. In the city she enters fashion work and romance with Crosley Webb and Charlie McCabe as hints of love, ambition, and social ascent unfold. Flick Barry connects with Gay as she pursues Easy Street or Joy Street under the glare of headlines and hotel culture.
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Gay Hilton
Howard Weston
Jior
HW. & W. Manufacturing Co
Weston
New York
Gay
Samuel J. Howells
Crosley Webb
Wall Street
Chicago
Charlie
Charlie McCabe
New Jersey
Scarnal
Flord Barry, Jr
Smith's New York Burden and Immigrant Equality Debate
The piece discusses Governor Smith as a symbol of immigrant equality against entrenched elites. It contrasts immigrant groups with old stock in political power and draws a Jacksonian parallel. It questions broad claims of immigrant inferiority and notes most Americans believe in equality, aside from a few regional elite circles.
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Smith
New York
Boston
Baltimore
Andrew Jackson
South
Woodrow Wilson
Elephants Graceful Attendants in Robbins Bros Circus Visit Waterloo
Robbins Bros big four ring circus brings Asiatic and African elephants to Waterloo on Monday May 21. elephants help set tents and move heavy wagons in rain as free noon street parade showcases their strength.
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Robbins Bros
Waterloo
Young Hero Nearly Loses Life Saving Brother
Des Moines dispatch reports Buddy Sonderreiter aged about seven risked his life to save his brother Harry from drowning in a pond formed by rain runoff. Albert Kautzky and 15 year old T G McCartney aided, while firemen with an inhalator revived Buddy after half an hour of effort. Both boys survived and Buddy was expected to return home.
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Des Moines
INS
Buddy Sonderreiter
Harry
T. G. McCartney
Albert Kautzky
Buddy
Broadlawn General Hospital
Model plane expert Johnny Rappold to visit Waterloo
Johnny Rappold, a 19 year old world renowned builder of miniature aircraft, will arrive Monday afternoon at the Forum to instruct Waterloo’s 60 eager boys in model plane construction. He will teach all week with afternoon and evening classes, materials furnished by the Waterloo playground commission, and Kiwanis sponsoring the event.
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Johnny Rappold
Waterloe
Johnny
Memphis
Tenn
Milwaukee
Wis
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Des Moines
Waterloo Playground Commission
South America
Kiwanis Club
Waterloo
T Bors
Victor Reed
City Recreation
Blonde Girl Buys Presents for Cop With Bad Checks
A blonde woman buys groceries shoes and flowers for Deputy Sheriff Vern Hicks using bounced checks. The deliveries go to 2805 Arnold Street Hicks’s home and are signed D. or Hicks. Merchants report the checks are for more than the items’ value and the carnival of deliveries continues.
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Des Moines
INS
Sherim Vern Hicks
Pitts
Arnold Street
Hick
D. Or Hicks
Hicks
Robbins Circus to Arrive in Waterloo Tomorrow at Dawn
Robbins Circus, 1000 performers and trained animals, passes through Dubuque tonight and heads to Waterloo arriving around 6 am tomorrow. Unloading near Fourth Street east yards, with afternoon and evening shows at Cedar River park. The troupe then moves to Marshalltown Tuesday via the Chicago Great Western line.
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Waterloo
Robbing Brothers
Cedar River Park
Dubuque
Fourth Streets
Chicago Great Western
Marshalltown
Husband Helps to Divorce Wife So He Can Wed Her Again
In Des Moines on May 19, Mrs Vaneta Gustin Marchant 20 planned to remarry her former husband Thrig 22 after they had a divorce case. Thrig had obtained a marriage license with Waneta and announced plans to move in together again.
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Des Moines
INS
Vaneta Gustin Marchant
Thrig
Taddy
Hubby
Lawrence E. Thrig
Ihrig
Waneta
Clarence Marchant
Hubby No
Marchant
Th Girl
Thiig
Forty Year Old Cedar Bridge Favored by Engineer
City engineer Nathan B Barber approves replacing the Forty Year Old steel bridge at Eleventh street with a concrete structure. He notes the old span, built 40 years ago for horse drawn traffic, is narrow and inadequate as traffic rises, and mentions the bridge was moved from Fifth to Eleventh street years ago.
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Eleventh Street
Nathan B. Barber
Ford
Barber
Fifth Street
Boy Who Stole Car Paroled Without Sentence
Bernard Marshall, 17, confessed to stealing two automobiles from Fifth Street Bridge to give his girl a ride. He was arraigned in the five mile court yesterday afternoon. Judge G J Sager paroled him to Jack Morris, Rath Packing superintendent, without sentence.
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Bernard Marshall
Commercial Street
Fifth Street Bridge
G. J. Sager
Jack Morris
Rath Packing Company
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