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Newspaper

Waterloo Evening Courier

Location

Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Nov 17, 1928

Page

6

AM Waterloo Daily 47 details and policy notes

The Waterloo Daily 47 issue outlines publication details for volume 70 number 275, including daily schedule except Sunday, office locations, staff roles, and contact numbers. It lists subscription prices by carrier and mail, notes Associated Press membership, and states advertising policies and payment terms.

Boeanagy Voa Veegease Secon Associated Press Audit Bureau of Circulations New York Philadelphia Chicago Los Angeles San Francisco Story Brooks & Finley Representatives

Repeated Travel Disasters Prompt Push for Safer Transport

A citizen notes that sea rail air and road accidents recur despite safety efforts. He urges continued action to reduce travel hazards amid rising traveler numbers and calls for stricter vessel inspections and lifesaving gear after the Vestris sinking. He argues statisticians must judge if safety intervals improve with progress.

Vestris

Rockefeller gifts fund hospital and Cambridge science drive

The Rockefeller Foundation and General Education Board provided 2.25 million for a major University of Iowa hospital and medical laboratories. Separately the foundation bequeathed 3.5 million to Cambridge University for science, reflecting global education aims and support for scientific work beyond national borders.

University of Iowa Rockefeller Foundation General Education Board Medical Laboratories Town City Cambridge University Cambridge Oxford

In School and Out Assessing Study Star and Career Success

A student researcher questions whether scholastic excellence predicts future professional success. The piece cites Phi Beta Kappa counts, college degrees, and jobs after graduation, noting mixed outcomes. It argues technical training is essential for medicine dentistry and law, while liberal studies show perseverance may forecast ongoing effort, but predictions remain unsafe.

Alma Mater Phi Beta Kappas

Smile, Worry, and Neurasthenia in Kellogg's Book

The piece criticizes Dr John H Kellogg’s 1915 discussion of neurasthenia, arguing the term is outdated yet lingered in popular use. It mocks Kellogg’s breathy health advice as unscientific, notes his verbose footnotes, and concludes that tiredness is real but there is no hidden store of nerve energy.

Wilen John H. Kellogg Battle Creek Kellegs George M. Beard Dr. Kellogg Altho Dr. Kellogg's T. R Beau Brummell New York

Medical Q&A and Home Remedies Column Fragment

A clipped reader's exchange discusses agar as a plant fiber in diets, dental wisdom teeth, and home pest tips using gasoline with warnings. It also includes questions on tapeworm causes and X-ray visibility with brief medical answers and a notice inviting stamped self addressed envelopes for health letters.

Talbot B. G Dr. Brady Willam Brady

The Race of Life Reflected In Hobbesian Race Metaphor

A Wisconsin professor recalls an amusing Hobbes anecdote and quotes The Elements of Law describing life as a race driven by passions. The excerpt lists appetites envy courage despair and other motives, concluding with sorrow and felicity as outcomes. The piece comments on the cold selfish view of the race of life.

Thomas Hobbes England New York Tommy Hobbes Leviathan Thomas

Bohemian poseurs fade from Greenwich Village lore

A nostalgic portrait recalls the vanished Bohemian crowd in New York City, detailing their velveteen coats and absinthe myths, the rise and fall of cafe culture, and a few cautionary tales of excess. It contrasts European war impact with local jeers from critics and readers. The piece also wanders into a playful children’s tale featuring Uncle Wiggily and a saw mill Ironing board quest ending in a sled escape from a fox.

New York London Paris Rome Greenwich Village Europe One Connelly

Uncle Wiggily and the Broken Teeter Totter

Uncle Wiggily reads the paper as Nurse Jane discovers Tingle and Tangle have broken a training board while riding the teeter tauter sea saw on Uncle Wiggily’s kitchen tron ing board. The muskrat housekeeper and Mrs. Longears react with mild scolding and forgiveness.

Janis Tingle Jane Uncle Wiggily Uncle Wiggly Nurse Jane Bunny Rabbit Mr. Longears Fuzzy Fox Wiggy Mr.Longears Nurse Jane Puzzy Wuzzy Tangle Rabbit Nurse

Government and people are one in enforcing prohibition

A Mason City Globe-Gazette column argues that government equals the people and that prohibition fails from lack of broad enforcement will. It notes that many support prohibition in theory but oppose strict enforcement, with rural mountaineers facing prison despite private demand for the liquor market.

Mason City Union South

Hoover's Modesty Displayed in Iowa Homestead

A passage extols Herbert Hoover as the most modest man, noting his tremendous deeds that thrill the world while he quietly stays at home with his dog and granddaughter, in a portrayal from an Iowa homestead.

Hoover Iowa Herbert Hoover

Abe Martin on longing for office and greed

Lon Moon quips that aspiring to office is fine until one begins to aspire for it. He jokes that he wishes running a grocery were illegal so he could profit instead.

Lon Moon

I Am a Democrat in a World of Defeats

The narrator recalls childhood loyalty to Democrats led by Grover Cleveland and William Jennings Bryan, recounting repeated election disillusionments and a lifelong habit of hoping for victory. He reflects on party faith, the thrill of campaigns, and the comfort of being on the winning side despite recurring defeats.

Dixie Grover Cleveland Chicago William Jennings Bryan Cleveland Bryan Buttons Mr. B William Jennings Bryan

Dighton rescues Greta in villa siege with gunfight

Dighton disrupts a scheme at Villa Sabino as Greta is found in a study room. He confronts Corlitt and The Lizard, shoots, and a blue ray blast and an explosion trap foes, with Marmey reporting a rain soaked finale as Miss Haye is carried to safety.

Marney Dighton Corlitt Greta Ahlberg Taverner Dick Haye England Alan Dighton HeTl Genoa Matney Swiss Rapallo Haye Rome Gerardo Villa Sabino Alan Daudot London Marmey Miss Haye

Play a Clean Game, Boys in High School Football Tale

Uncle Ray recalls Yale’s 32 to 14 win over Brown and praises star Johnny Garvey. He witnesses a village game with 200 spectators where a clash nearly erupts but is calmed. High school girls chant for a clean game, urging fair play and sportsmanship on the gridiron.

Uncle Wiggily Hollow Stump Mrs. Longears Buldogs Bears Yale Brown Johnny Garvey Uncle Ray

Wall Street Bond Sales Seen By Expert Advice

In Springfield Massachusetts the Republican notes that Wall Street's attitude hinges on whether more bonds can be sold in a wet country than a dry one, a finding to be guided by expert economic counsel.

Springfield Mass Wall Street

Burroughs Nature Club Notes Q&A Column

Reading prompts from the Burroughs Nature Club Notes section invite questions of general interest to the Nature Notes Department. Readers are urged to send inquiries and look for answers in upcoming columns.

Burroughs Nature Club Houghton Mifflin CO Nature Notes

Answers IX Tomorrow's Nature Notes

Readers ask if birds turn white in winter like ermines, if insects commonly pass through a grub stage, and if pronghorn fawns are spotted. The column will provide concise, nature-note style answers with emphasis on observable facts and regional context.

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