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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1928
Page
17
Waterloo Evening Courier page compiles jobs apartments and sales in a dense classified listing. It includes multiple WANTEDFOR RENT and FOR SALE notices, auction details, and business service ads with addresses and phone numbers.
Goon buys property for 250 to 300 dollars and advertises income opportunities in Water ton. Listings include Oldsmobile coach for sale, used auto parts, real estate on multiple streets, and several coal and building material suppliers with prices and contact numbers. Luminaries include Lester W. Miller and J. M. Hileman as realty agents, with numerous phone contacts.
A long list of sale notices including livestock for sale two Chester White boars and a spotted Poland China boar, plus pups, rats, brass saxophone, apples, and assorted goods. Also requests to buy oats, magazines, and rags. Local coal orders and storm sash ads included. Contact details and prices vary across items.
Legal notice to H O Schultz owner in Black Hawk County Iowa that parcels in East Waterloo township Lot 1 2 3 4 5 7 8 9 10 11 12 in block 24 are subject to tax sale 1923 1924 sold December 7 1925 to H A Sweet and redemption expires 90 days after service with attorney and date October 27 1928. Also administratrix appointment notice for I L Whitney estate and auction sale of railroad company property November 14 1928.
Board of Supervisors of Black Hawk County met by adjournment with F R Decker chairing. Present were Teeter Ahies Refshauge Bentley Miller. Motion by Bentley to appoint election judges and clerks to serve in the various election precincts of Black Hawk County.
Elmer M Lichty of Waterloo and Charles A Hollis of Cedar Falls won fourth terms in the Iowa House with strong Republican majorities. Lichty served as public health chair and sat on agricultural education institutions pharmacy motor vehicle and appropriations panels. Hollis chaired the good roads committee and sat on judiciary ways and means animal industry insurance and commerce and trade panels.
The National Kindergarten Association distributes Froebel’s statement The Childs First School Is the Family. It appears weekly in the Evening Courier columns at 8 West Fortieth Street New York City.
Pauline Kerr Thomas describes practical parenting by teaching a child to share toys and playmates. Through modeling, taking turns, and setting limits, the family guides generosity and patience as the child grows. The narrative ends with the daughter offering to wash dishes after a sled ride, showing learned reciprocity.
County supervisors approve notices for general election on November 6 1928 and appoint a committee to destroy ballots and nomination papers ten days before the election. Teeter and Refshauger named. G W Morris retained as steward and matron at county home for 1929. Domestic animal claim allowed for lamb killed by dogs. Abe Hansen bond approved to protect against double payment of county bridge warrant. Minutes read and approved. Adjournment set for 9:00 a m October 29 1928.
Real estate transfers show multiple deeds across Waterloo and district, including Whoo Building and Loan Assn to Wm Leask Jr and various others like Mayme Doyle to Carl Nielsen and Samuel Doran to McWilliams add. The notices mention properties in Audubon Rainbow’s Logan Ave and Belt Line plat, Meadow Mary Zimmerman to C E Cassaday, Grand View Place, Pommer sub division, and Brown to Harry Weldon among others. The passage also references Mason City Loan and Trust Co and a stray note about sugar pine of the Pacific coast mountains.
Laws establishing kindergartens have been enacted in California Arizona Nevada Maine Texas Kansas Pennsylvania Wisconsin Iowa New Mexico and Illinois this winter. Similar bills are aimed in many other states this season. For information contact the National Kindergarten Association 8 West Fortieth Street New York.
A letter with two checks totaling 365 dollars was turned in to police by W. J. Searcy of 319 Thompson Avenue. checks traced to a woman on Fifth Street West who collected them with a reward. A collision on Riverside Street left cars damaged. G. C. Shillings of 509 Sixth Street West was arrested for intoxication. L. H. O'Toole reported being struck by a car on Highway 20, his horse was only slightly hurt. An orchestra bus, owned by L. C. Wells of 115 Franklin Street, Rain Bow Drive, was found derelict after theft. A new sedan stolen from Cal Miller Drug Store lot was recovered near Washington Street and Park Avenue. C. A. Reed reported a light roadster stolen from Hosteter Building complex. A man frightened a window neeper on Mulberry Street. police investigated but found no suspect. Nineteen travelers sought lodging at the city jail. In Humboldt, Roy Knutson, 33, a mail carrier from Bode, was killed after being run over while repairing his own car.
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