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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1926
Page
8
Floods reshape Midwest towns with Kansas Oklahoma and Illinois hit hardest as 23 feet rise on the Illinois River and Kansans and Oklahomans face broad flood zones. In politics a New York race tests Gov Mills and Wadsworth with Smith seen as a national figure amid dry versus wet lines.
The notice asks recipients to ensure home delivery of The Courier before 5 30 p m. If the carrier error or other cause prevents receipt by then, call 51d and a copy will be sent. Phone calls must reach the office before 6 20 p m.
Heavy weekend rains flood Buchanan County streams. Buffalo Creek east of Winthrop overruns No. 80 highway making passage impossible. At Moffert-Swidse north of No. 20 the water covers the road and bridges may be swept away. Wapsie rises to its summer peak.
Shenandoah Ia October 4 Henry Anderson studio director wins a radio bride. Miss Lacelia Salling of San Antonio Texas wrote congratulations. Radio romance leads to marriage July 18 in Olatha Kansas. wedding just announced.
Red tag reminders flood the streets as 143 untagged violators await notices at the station. Police report over 240 traffic arrests since Thursday with 72 tagged Saturday and 73 Sunday as clerks race to process notices and court dates.
Cedar Rapids congressman and former Cedar Rapids Republican editor Cyrenus Cale will address the Twin Cities Association convention in Tooross Township on October 2. He will discuss Newspapering and Newspaper Men in the Nineties.
Two automobile bandits held up and robbed a filling station operator in Sitherville Ta Oer. The victim John Wiegand said the assailants were about 34 years old, well dressed, driving a Hudson coach, and fled without their license number. The loss was around 159 in cash.
Town co-eds form a horseback riding class with sixteen students under Daisy Culler of the physical education department. Instructional rides are scheduled Wednesdays and Fridays in the town.
A group of missionaries traveling in Shen echhowfu, Henan province, were robbed and three Americans were taken by bandits near Hankow. The captives were Miss Minerva Well, Miss Lydia Kacihe, and Miss Arlex Reek of mission groups. Seven other missionaries escaped and are safe. A prior guard of 40 soldiers fled when the bandits attacked after the party had paid 259 for their services.
Traer Iowa residents face a seventh attempt to appoint a mayor as four council nominees and one former caucus pick remain in the running after the resignation of J. T. Marsan several weeks ago. The vacancy stems from Marsan's retirement grant of $1 yearly? and continues after previous caucuses failed.
Lansing Chamber of Commerce warns residents that aggressive agents are selling Muscle Shoals Alabama lots by citing an old Henry Ford claim about employing a million men to build a city. The statement has lingered, but the sales pitch continues to surface.
Moscow reports reveal Leon Trotsky and rival Grigory Ainovich attacking the communist central committee on a factory platform. The exchange signals a looming party crisis and demands for greater democracy within the ranks. A conference of party leaders is planned for October 25 to resolve the dispute.
In Rockwood Tennessee a mine blast three miles underground at the Rogers entry of Roane Iron company’s coal mine sent shock and gas, leaving three hours later unconfirmed details. Miners Tedder and Davis provided initial reports as rescue crews found Eddie Davis unconscious and a dead mine mule at Bryson Dip, with operations halted near the blast site.
The body of a young woman believed to be Florence Harvey of Lansing Michigan was found on Green Island near Niagara Falls. A note beside the girl suggested she took poison and ended her life, saying Goodbye this is an awful thing to do Florence Harvey Lansing.
Republican leaders of Iowa and the tenth district met in Fort Dodge to plan the fall campaign. Willis Stern of Lagin, Jr. presided at 2 PM with Miss Martha Metlure, vice chair, attending the caucus.
Forecast calls for fair and cooler conditions tonight and tomorrow at the World Series in St Louis. City offices closed at 4 PM for homecoming celebrations honoring the Cardinals and their fans.
In Chicago, Joseph Bailer's steak with woodland mushrooms proved fatal for him and left 13 others ill. The mushrooms were misidentified as edible fungi after neighbor sharing by Jacob Nusied, who overpicked and distributed leftovers. All victims are expected to recover.
Judge Martin J. Wade, presiding with Judge Scott in Sioux City on the main calendar, expects to leave for California to spend the winter as soon as he can wind up his docket. Wade had spent part of last winter in California after a prolonged illness from which he had not fully recovered.
An unidentified boy about 18 was struck and killed by a Rock Island train near Booneville Lane. His mangled body was brought to Adel and a label from a Danville store suggests his cap. authorities are working to identify him.
By a council vote of 4% to 1 Shenandoah citizens request the appointment of A Read former vice president of the closed First National bank as a member of the park commission and cemetery board Read is under hospital treatment in Council Bluffs and faces final charges of banking irregularities
Special prayers were said yesterday in churches nationwide for Queen Marie of Roumania as she departed Saturday for Paris then to the United States on the first leg of her tour.
A strong wind yesterday demolished outbuildings on the Lee Witt and Henry Spores farms near Rean Ta. Lee Witt was seriously injured after being hurled about 40 feet and struck by a large timber.
Col. Smith leads a 10 day state tour as twelve hopefuls for the U S Senate contest the McKinley seat in Illinois. Brennan is sidelined by a knee injury but campaigns via radio while Magill and others press independent and party lines amid Prohibition era debates and campaign themes of Republican prosperity.
Local reports say a three day pheasant open season will run October 4 16 and 16 in 18 counties including Black Hawk Winnebago Worth Mitchell Howard Hancock Floyd Chickasaw Wright Franklin Bremer Hamilton Hardin Humboldt Cerro Gordo and Shelby. Merrill Coburn of DE W Coburn Son sporting goods notes more birds than ever and a farmer north of Cedar Balls claims about 600 pheasants on his land.
Ministers from 23 churches coordinating the Bob Jones evangelistic meetings will host pastors from surrounding towns at a Monday luncheon at Black's tearoom. A program of talks and music will precede the Oct. 24 revival, expected to draw thousands from outside Waterloo.
George B. Phipps, 55, was seriously injured when struck by a Chicago Great Western freight train while attempting to cross the Des Moines River bridge. He was knocked down an embankment as the train reached him, with his hip crushed.
Earthquakes lasting four hours were recorded today by Tassel Réndandi Italy's leading seismologist in Faenza. The quakes measured 11,000 kilometers from Tome and, if in an uninhabited area, could have been disastrous.
Detroit Oct. 4 1934 The AFL aims to win a forty hour five day week as the next major advance for workers. President William Green calls it a cardinal point in constructive progress at the forty sixth annual convention opening session. The announcement follows last week’s Pest plan and coincides with pre convention events.
President Coolidge will deliver his first address since vacation as he speaks at the American Red Cross annual meeting in Washington D C. The event marks his return to public duties after a short restful break.
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