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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1928
Page
15
An analysis of 1222 Jewish laymen responses shows 99 percent find comfort in prayer, 88 percent say prayer helps in adversity, and 26 percent pray daily while 29 percent pray occasionally and 45 percent do not pray. Younger men report greater crisis needs, while many urge ethics over dogma and daily life over liturgy.
The piece notes high attendance among married men at congregational activities with 93 percent involvement. It reports 81 percent favor congregational singing and 76 percent actually joining in. A quoted reader laments lack of enjoyment and praises traditional hymns uniform across temples for easy recognition.
Parkersburg Iowa November 29 The girls glee club and senior chorus of Parkersburg High school will present their annual revue Sunshine at the school auditorium on Tuesday December 18. Several soloists from the high school orchestra will assist. The revue was written by Miss Lela Young director of music in the public schools. Special costumes are being made for the event.
The phrase white plague was reportedly first used by Oliver Wendell Holmes in his 1861 novel Elsie Venner to describe tuberculosis. The article notes the disease as a death sentence in Holmes's era, contrasts it with modern progress, and mentions Christmas seal fund drives to combat it. It also briefly notes the North American antelope horn cycle.
Rea C. Thompson once three time mayor of Waterloo and former city clerk and auditor is in a serious condition at the isolation hospital. Emaciated by tuberculosis he has no home or near relatives and is cared for by Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Ly on. Born 65 years ago, Thompson started in printing and later led municipal reform as city clerk and mayor from 1905 to 1911 and 1915. He is now largely bed ridden with coughing, housed in a room with other contagious-disease patients.
Mr and Mrs Ernest Steinbronn of Gresham Iowa announce the birth of a son on November 27. The proud parents are listed as Navy family.
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