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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1928
Page
3
The Waterloo Evening Courier publishes daily except Sunday with West Iowa notices and advertising policy details. It lists staff roles, subscription options, and rules on admissible advertising while noting Associated Press and foreign offices for news.
An Iowa journalist surveys New Yorkers who describe Iowa as dismal, tracing the view to eastern publishing houses and a pessimistic realism. The piece urges easterners to visit Iowa and local writers to offer a brighter portrayal of the state.
The piece argues prosperity stems from higher production and industrial growth with world leadership in goods. It warns against overemphasis on money and things and calls for production to be the servant, not the master, to avoid losing control of the machine we built.
A Chicago banker, William C. Freeman, faces a suit for separate maintenance from his wife Mrs. Freeman who accuses him of choosing work over home life. Freeman's career rises from messenger to vice president, while employers demand his resignation amid publicity. The case highlights the clash of marital duties and professional ambition.
A music critic laments Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue after hearing it with Paul Whiteman plus orchestra, a piano solo, and the Revelers, finding the piece long and leaving little impression despite various performances and attempts to explain it.
A reader recalls rejecting classic jazz until a banjo virtuoso in a cinema converted them. The Rhapsody now grows on them, as they would welcome an itinerant Italian to play it on a hand organ. The point: art appreciated by connoisseurs may reveal its meaning with repeated exposure.
Personal Health Service by Dr. Brady recounts a mother’s plea about her 15 year old son smoking cigarets. He resists parents, while experts mock modern psychology and urge firm pledges and parental discipline.Reader questions cover constipation diet, white bread beliefs, and beliefs about shoes and tuberculosis.
The essay argues colleges should ease freshmen into campus life without overparenting or brutal discipline. It urges faculty to know students personally, guide study habits, and provide early, practical instruction in using the library and labs, followed by four years of informed counseling to awaken latent strengths.
A long column critiques New York debt and easy credit, recounting personal experiences with charge accounts and loan sharks. It threads through nightlife in Chili Villa, a Park Avenue party, and a quirky Uncle Wiggily story reshaped as a puzzle tale.
Uncle Wiggily wanders a sunlit woods hoping to meet Boy Scouts before noticing paw prints and stones spelling RED and an arrow east. He suspects danger near dogs and braces for a possible threat as he reads the cryptic marks left in the ground.
In this segment from Eldora Herald a bobcat taunts Pooh by naming a long word while a riddle hints at the catch. The piece then quotes a political caution urging voters to scrutinize agitators and their leaders before elections.
Fifty years ago in The Courier dated May 29 1878 reporters note a firemen’s state tournament drawing 600 firefighters and eight engines with La Porte winning both the water throw and hose races. Immigrant wagon trains, a new Casca en sidewalk, West High graduation with Anna Baker Flora Phelps Wootter Van Buren Belle McGain and E K Boies, and a coming Van Amburgh circus on June 17 are reported. A dissenting clerical notice and community thanks appear among local notes.
Forty years ago Waterloo reports travel from Mr and Mrs W T Whitney to New Mexico and Colorado. Peter Pott fractures a leg leaping from a frightened buggy. W F Eightey sells a farm near Eagle Center for 35 dollars an acre. Lou G Parrott and Anna Rae Buck wed in a family home with a Chicago honeymoon. Civil War veterans march in a Memorial Day parade led by W W Edgington and F W White. High water boosts fishing catch as angers report bass and pike. Waterloo College graduation exercises held with recitations and diplomas awarded to E L Elliott M W Gates Eunice Lamb.
A 1908 account notes Charles Gull near Colesburg killed 67 rattlers from a den near Bloody Run, with many more suspected. Other items include Waterloo chautauqua promotions, bridge work on Westfield street car line, and weather delaying farm planting. Also mentions butterfly species like tiger swallowtails and giant swallowtails.
In Uncle Ray's Corner, swallowtails are described among the yellow butterflies and other families such as meadow-browns and blues. The black swallowtail appears across southern Canada and the US, its caterpillars feeding on carrot and parsnip leaves and damaging crops. The blue swallowtail is among North America’s most striking, with greenish blue hind wings and bright orange spots on the forewings.
Burroughs Nature Club invites reader questions on nature topics and provides brief answers. The column lists queries about birds, honey, wolves, badgers, and pests, with guidance on attracting flies, trapping, and preventing exposure to children and pets.
Israel Drinkwater, a mail carrier in Benderville Mountain Dem district, was pranked when a skunk was placed in his mailbox. The boys mailed one of Trickett's cards and hid to watch him deliver it. Several issues of the Democrat and other mail were lost. Israel appears 20 years younger after his mustache was shaved.
Abe Martin quips that average married women have too much leisure to repent unless they play cards. He jokes that nature should profit from human missteps as rhubarb follows close behind winter’s last frosts.
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