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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1928
Page
3
A column discusses Dr. C E A Winslow's view that high grade morons may perform routine work in civilization. It also reflects on whether progress risks stopping or advances with machines, and traces the origins of the football huddle from calling signals to manage noisy crowds.
A black night near-miss of a German built airship the Los Angeles with a Navy dirigible is described. The piece notes 800 foot length 100 foot diameter five 520 horsepower motors and speeds up to 84 mph. It discusses evolving air lanes lights and a possible air traffic cop.
In the approaching election the female vote is key and largely tipped to Hoover. Nonpolitical supporters, previously inactive in partisan affairs, back his humanitarian work, engineering career, science and child health campaigns. His role in building the commerce department boosts public regard. Enthusiastic individuals who worked with Hoover through his administration now actively support him.
An Iowa editorial traces the football huddle as a modern roundtable before play and compares it to the old shift play. It notes the aim to surprise opponents and gain yardage, with later rule changes requiring the offense to alter its formation after adjustments.
Dr Duffie’s new handbook For Us Diabetics is praised for simple language and practical diet guidance. It shows how to use affordable sugar tests, build a home food scale, and obtain essential vitamins, with foreword by Dr L H Newburgh. The piece also answers reader questions on preventing grease boils in machinists and invites letters to Dr Brady for health advice.
Glenn Frank reflects on Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and Don Quixote on baptism day. He ponders Quixotic as a lens for modern leaders and the paradox of mad courage driving progress against cold calculation.
In a vivid portrait of New York suburban life, the piece contrasts wealthier outsiders cramming into social circles with established locals. It notes lavish parties, private detectives seeking scandal, and the gilded theater of Broadway society, ending with a comic scene of service plus quick replacement amid fashion and vanity.
Uncle Wiggily spots Johnnie and Billie Bushy tail leaving Hollow Stump School and suspects mischief with the Lady Mouse teacher. He vows to stop them as the children quietly escape, their tails arched like dusting brushes.
Georgen recounts how the rabbit gentleman hides behind as Johnnie and Billie close the back door of the school. Uncle Wiggilly accuses them of trying to slip away while the children insist they were allowed outside by Lady Mouse due to their good lesson progress.
Abe Martin and Billie join Uncle Wiggily to search fields for hickory nuts while avoiding noise at the school. They discover nuts and stones, reveal the prank, and anticipate a clash with the boastful alligator villain Skillery Scullery Al.
Alan Dighton, ally of Sir Ian Tavener, uncovers a deadly European race for a new weapon. Corlitt dies by a vapor attack. Dighton pursues Daudot’s circle from London to Paris and Italy with Mafalda Pasquali while Greta Haye and Marney influence the spy game.
A kid friendly retelling notes Columbus meeting San Salvador Indians who trade cotton yarn and bread tools, seeking gold. The voyage grows with parroted colorfully described Cuba and myths about death, echo, and the Indians’ view. The tale ends with Tomorrow A Shipwreck.
Fort Dodge Messenger reports F L Maytag, in Fort Dodge for a sales conference, as a leading industrial figure in America. His work makes Newton Iowa a washing machine capital, with Maytag Company last year reporting about 50 million dollars in business.
The column invites readers to send nature questions and provides answers on topics such as wool uses from South Dakota and Wyoming, black knot on plums, and Canadian canaries. It includes details on bird neck anatomy, chipmunk stripe variation, a ground squirrel named Stars and Stripes, and hawksbill turtle shell characteristics.
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