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Newspaper

Waterloo Evening Courier

Location

Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Oct 19, 1927

Page

3

Classified Rates and Publication Policy Notice

The notice outlines advertising rates and payment terms, and states the paper may edit ads to comply with policy. It lists Associated Press rights, distribution details, and newspaper offices and representatives in major cities. It warns against fraudulent or misleading ads and notes payment due by the 10th of the following month.

Es Soo Waterloo Iowa Associated United Press International Associated Press Pa Associated Press Bureau of Circulations Caeser New York Philadelphia Chicago Los Angeles San Frank

New Federal Department Hinted By Incoming Session

Indications point to the coming session highlighting a United States Chamber of Commerce backed push for federal supervision of administration. The debate centers on divorce laws and regulatory measures as priorities, with focus on addressing the greater issues before the lesser evils.

United States

Postage on Newspapers Notices Evolve

A clipped fragment notes changes in newspaper postage and distribution practices after a revision, hinting at shifts in costs and delivery timelines. The text mentions readers noticing and questions the impact of new rates on circulation.

Air Mail Growth Call Promotes Stamp Use

A historical note urges readers to use air mail and buy stamps to improve mail service. It contrasts United States air mail mileage with other nations and mentions delays from older systems while highlighting the need for broader adoption and night operations.

Ceara Unite States Germany

War on Tips Gains Ground Across Occupations

A Labor Department study shows organized workers in many fields oppose tipping. Critics say employers use tips to suppress wages and that tips shift focus from quality service to gratuity. Patrons prefer paying a fair price over tipping, but change hinges on earnest effort by tippees and tipsters.

Department of Labor

Resuscitation by a Six Year Old on Ice Pond

An ice pond accident recalls the first aid lesson of a six year old who used Schaefer's prone pressure respiration to revive a drowning child. The author defends manual methods over machines, noting the mother’s recovery and the lack of sensational news.

Schaefer

Doctor Brady Old Fashioned Remedy and Hair Dye Questions

Q and A column covers remedies for constipation using flax seeds with daily teaspoon amounts and water use, notes about hair dye safety and limits, squint eye operations as minor and vision-guided, guidance on whether to extract teeth with gold inlays, TB coughing myths, and submission rules for letters to Dr. Brady with stamped envelopes.

Religion and Racialism by Glenn Frank

Glenn Frank critiques the attempt to fuse Christianity with racialism. He argues Christianity is nonracial, citing Jesus as breaking racial frontiers and universalizing faith. Frank rejects equating Jesus with any nationalist or Nordic racial agenda.

Glenn Frank University of Wisconsin Star of the Century Magazine Jesus Pilgrim Fathers

Counterfeiting Shifts Focus From Dimes to Liquor

A Milwaukee Journal note recalls that 25 years ago fake dimes were widespread, but today counterfeiting is mainly tied to liquor trades. The remark highlights a historical shift in criminal activity and its targets.

Milwaukee Journal

New York Press Notes A Patchwork of City Life

A collage of brief items touches on dog thefts and alibis, stage and screen behavior, and early apartment living tricks. It notes police interest in tougher dog theft laws, actress anecdotes about lost dogs and rewards, shifts in entertainment culture, a pushy bar in new apartments, and a bankrupt flyer listing a $200 private bartender salary.

New York Oct ind _isaling Arpa

Uncle Wiggily and the Pig's Comb

Uncle Wiggily and Nurse Jane plan to bake a cake while Mr Twistytail the pig hurries toward the woods. The rabbit warns his wife to avoid salt and sugar mix ups as he hops after the pig to check on the morning’s errand.

Uncle Wiggily Jane Twistytail

Pine cone combs and back scratchers in the woods

Uncle Wiggily and Mr Twistytail misinterpret pine cones as combs for hair and later fashion a back scratcher from a pine cone. They gather cones, share with Longears, and even scare a bear while trading cones for pocketfuls of quirky grooming items. The scene ends with plans for more stories.

Uncle Wiggily Bunty Mr. Twistytail Uncle Wiggily Wiggy Mr. Longears

Fifty Years Ago In The Courier Corn Ears and Town News

In 1877 Orange township residents reported exceptionally large ears of corn with ten ears averaging over one and a quarter pounds each. A 1,540 kernel ear was praised as the season’s largest. Local updates noted street lamps, new dentists, and a bumper sorghum cane crop yielding 200 gallons per acre.

John Stuhlmiller Orange Town J. B. Myers G. W. Barnes Cox Eldridge

Forty Years Ago Potato Weighs Two and Half Pounds

A. B. Hostettler of Orange Township presented a champion potato weighing two and a half pounds. G. H. Eastman of Cedar Township brought in a two and a fourth pound specimen. Densmores wed at St. Josephs. Shutts Barber drug firm dissolved after 14 years with Early Barber in charge. H. N. Butterfield shows a 103 pound pumpkin. Town Christian Endeavor held its second annual convention with 169 delegates plus visitors.

A. B. Hostettler Orange Township G. ‘H. Eastman Cedar Township Shutts &Barber Shutts Barber H. N. Butterfield Cedar Falls Township The Town Christian Endeavor Societies First Baptist Church

Local 1907 Harvest Demo and Community Notes

Twenty years ago on a Saturday five hundred farmers gathered for a demonstration at the Hoover place amid talk of a husking wage rumor. Mr and Mrs A W Guernsey of Chicago visit Waterloo relatives. A bicyclist injures W J Peverill's son at Sixth and Lafayette. Attorney M H Kelly and bride back from wedding trip at 108 Franklin Street. Automatic sprinkler planned for James Black Dry Goods store on Fourth Street East. Sam Peterson succeeds in the government's land drawing at Brule Agency South Dakota. Dr and Mrs E L Rohlf return from wedding trip settle at 730 Park Avenue. Rev W E Van Buren Decorah and Mrs Bruner’s daughter visit Cedar Falls. Rev J Arthur Young and wife plan to visit before resuming charged duties.

W. E. van Buren Decorah Cedar Falls Joseph Bruner J. Arthur Young Bruner

Uncle Rays Corner Quiz Answers and Scrapbook Call

Uncle Ray asks North America trivia with capitals, rivers, bays, and plains. He offers school results, Nat ure folder tips, and a scrap book request, inviting readers to send stamped self addressed envelopes.

Uncle Ray

Burroughs Nature Club Notes Inquiries Answered Tomorrow

Questions posed to the Nature Notes Dept seek color patterns of western sapsuckers details on maggots in decaying meat and behavior of insects when struck from the ground. The column promises answers in tomorrow's Nature Notes.

Nature Notes

Answers About Rattle Snakes Muskrats and Doves

A reader asks if road runners kill rattlesnakes by trapping them with horsehair barricades. Experts say the theory is false. The muskrat diet is mainly grasses with roots and plants, and they may eat freshwater mussels and even farm crops. The dove is a descendant of the wild pigeon. the terms dove and pigeon are used interchangeably in everyday speech.

Political and Relief Two Aspects in Farm Measure

The Kansas City Star notes politicians view farm legislation through two lenses the real policy impact and political gain. Its Washington correspondent, with years observing lawmakers, believes a farm bill is likely to pass, driven by partisan advantage and human nature to seek credit and votes.

Kansas’ City Star Congress Star’s Washington

Curfewed by Radio Waves Alarm in Fort Dodge

Fort Dodge Messenger reports Mussolini aims to force citizens to bed by ten with powerful electric waves to drown out radio reception after that hour. Radio experts fear cross border effects on broadcasting, worrying about international impact.

Fort Dodge -Messenger Mussolini Italy

More Than an Art Conference on Family Life

Boston Transcript notes that maintaining a happy home is an art. A speaker at the conference on family life discusses the pressures of mortgage interest car payments and keeping up with neighbors as factors making a father’s task seem very hard.

Boston Transcript

Speaking of Signs and Matrimony Hints

The Lafayette Journal and Courier piece notes a domestic scene where a daughter shifts from making fudge to cheese straws and croquets, signaling a change in household routines and a nearby prospect of marriage, reflecting old folk reaction and hopeful hesitation as changes unfold.

Lafayette Journal and Courier

Ought to Be a Law Airplane Pranks Prompt Petition

Atchison Globe notes a proposed law to bar dropping trunks and passengers from airplanes on Atchison citizens heads. The paper jokes the idea as publicity and a howl to gain attention. It mentions no incidents yet.

Atchison Globe Atchison

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