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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1929
Page
11
Waterloo to host a new Royer Manufacturing facility with $200000 capital, creating about 60 to 75 jobs. The firm, previously based in Janesville, will move to the former Caward Dart site on Ainsborough Avenue, starting around January 1, and hopes to produce Hawkeye motor patrols and maintainers for road work.
The Hawkeye Maintainer company unveils a tractor built road patrol unit weighing about 15 000 pounds with enclosed cab and rubber tires priced around 3500 dollars. Production shifts from Janesville to Dart factory in Waterloo with 20 000 square feet space and a spur rail line, as Royer and Kliebenstein lead design, manufacturing, and promotion. Three directors will join five board members from Waterloo stockholders to guide the new Waterloo industry.
Health authorities in Moscow have ordered mandatory scarlet fever inoculation for all city children. Public clinics provide serum free, and no child may enter schools nurseries or other public institutions without a vaccination certificate amid last winter’s epidemic and high fatalities.
London reports that George Bernard Shaw mocked democracy in a Plymouth radio address on Democracy. He called democracy a balloon of gas and argued government for the people by the people is unsuitable for modern civilization. He began by saluting the audience with grand formalities before presenting his critical view.
Haden Haden reports the death of Delacroix a noted Belgian banker and delegate to the committee organizing the International bank who died today of heart disease in Germany.
A. G. C. Sweetman forecasts Waterloo will have a bright, white street lighting upgrade by December 15. New single-globe lamps will illuminate Fourth and Fifth streets plus Commercial and Sycamore, with posts cast at Headford Bros. & Hitchins. Crews will work 11 p.m. to 7 a.m. to minimize traffic disruption. Also noted is a seaplane service between Victoria and Vancouver by Alaska Washington Airways.
An old advertisement notes a shift from dosing to external treatment for colds. Vicks VapoRub now boasts over 28 million jars used yearly in the United States, with its vapors delivering relief through the skin. The product is marketed as safe for both adults and children in more than 60 countries.
St Louis reports Ora Lee Dukes an 18 year old newlywed died in her apartment after her letter to her sister described happiness in a share home. She began a paragraph about her husband Duke saving to buy a bungalow when the beans boiled over and gas burner hissed, ending in her death.
Virginia leads the entire south in the manufacture of paper goods. Major Le Roy Hodges, managing director of the state chamber of commerce, told a recent convention of the technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry in Richmond, Virginia, on October 15.
In Lamar Colorado a new story of the May 1928 First National Bank holdup was prepared for the jury as Howard L. Royston faced trial. Royston reportedly gave reporter Wallace M. Rees a signed statement alleging Ralph Fleagle likely killed bank president A. N. Parrish during the robbery.
The report quotes Fleagle admitting he fired the shot that killed J. F. Parrish, the son of Parrish, signaling a key development in the ongoing case and potential charges or legal action.
In Florence American amplifying phonographs caused a cafe music crisis as cafe owners replaced hired orchestras with phonographs. Musicians protested fearing job loss while American jazz records produced sounds Italian orchestras could not match.
Classical ensembles performed in cafes to compete with phonographs. Unemployed orchestras rose up and faced police action as cafe owners appealed to authorities. Officers drove the musicians away, leaving the machines in control.
More than 1,100,000 visitors came to British Columbia this year and spent about 35,000,080 dollars, according to the publicity bureau. The report highlights strong tourist activity and regional spending in the Vancouver area.
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