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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1927
Page
10
A jumble of classified lines includes Poultry and Egg Mash at 2.95, used clothing and guns bought by Clothing Exchange, and multiple WANTED notices for plane, clothing, and bookkeeper. Also listings for windows, coats, fur, Mink coats, lumber, and pawn shop sales plus various sale prices and contact phones across local merchants.
Residents report a moonlight rainbow in Castle Rock as a full moon rose, with a silvery mist over the town and a double halo effect described against the western hills. The colors included deep red, blue, green, and orange in a silvery bow across the sky.
Paris expands sidewalk and billboard taxes amid a citywide revamp of street space charges. Six zones now govern rates, with offices and upper bay windows taxed by rental value, impacting cafes, canopies, and ads.
ABE MARTIN extols week ends outdoors over indoors and lists country pleasures and preparations. He advises English cousins’ charm, warns about Uncle Newt’s farm, and suggests simple tasks and gifts to win welcome while avoiding haymow smoke and chiggers.
A melodramatic tale of cross loves among several women and men tied by shared affection. Candover Frayne worships his wife Violet and bonds with his daughter Elizabeth while his past haunts Blair Maitland. Elizabeth supports her crippled cousin Colin as loyalties strain under romantic entanglements.
Jane Wentworth cherishes her brother’s happiness and holds sacred the memory of a lover killed in the war saving Colin. Dr. Sutherland cares for her as Pop Py’s passion centers on Maitland, and the plot unfolds as memories and adoration intertwine.
Magdalen King-Hall presents I Think I Remember satirizing modern memoirs. The spoof follows Sir Wickham Woollcomb with pompous anecdotes and self important impressions, poking at egotistic autobiographies as read in today’s literary tide.
In Berks County Pennsylvania a monument marks the site of an old Indian council ground honoring Sachem Shekilamimy a leader who came to Pennsylvania from the remnant of the Delawares The stone marker faces the grave of Conrad Weiser and notes their frequent councils Weiser and Shekilamimy helped keep Iroquois loyal to the English during colonial days Harrisburg October 8.
A masked gunman robbed an Indiana Oil station attendant Thomas Langman of about 20 dollars last night in Des Moines. The bandit entered the station, demanded the till, then forced Langman to the telephone before fleeing.
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