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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1928
Page
15
A scattered page lists help wanted offerings and rental notices. Items include agents wanted for from Wonderlite Sales Co and various local rental rooms and furnished suites with contact phone numbers and brief descriptors.
A large sale advertises an auction by J. M. Steely and Harry Pashby Auctioneer on Tuesday Sept 11. Items include Victor Victrola records, a firproof safe, Jaxtdy washing machine, dining suite, 9 rockers, parlor set, sewing machines, fans, lamps, sweepers, and over 100 miscellaneous antiques. Terms mention inside selling space and contact through a clerk with phone listings.
Fifth Thursday September 13 at 1 39 PM auctioneer L L Macksmann advertises a sale of beds dressers chairs rockers kitchen dining and library tables cupboards jars dishes and glassware plus antiques and household items. Also listed are heating laundry and gas stoves hot plates and refrigerators with many items not mentioned. Others seek to buy furniture at Williamson's Second Hand Store and Waterloo Paint and Glass Co advertises water resistant furniture refinishing products.
Large front room well lighted and heated for two, single room also available. Several furnished light housekeeping rooms in ground floor flats with private entrances. Desirable modern apartments and houses near West Fifth Argyle Edwards. Various phone numbers listed for viewing and application. Includes rooms with heat, hot water, and some with garage or car line proximity.
A short essay extols the home as a child’s root and urges owners to buy rather than rent. It argues ownership is attainable with willingness and asserts a firm can guide buyers through price and down payment, offering direction and assistance.
For sale many items including mink cape fur coats dresses hats shoes and clothing. Canary birds furniture and more at low prices. Ladies' Exchange address and phone listed. Also housing heater and silo filler advertised with contact details.
A New York Public Library bulletin outlines Ethiopic or lesana Ge'ez as related to ancient Sabaean but not descended from it. The script is a 26 consonant system with seven vowels forming a 12-character syllabary, later expanded to 267 signs for Amalharic. Ethiopian linguistic history shows Greek and Coptic loanwords, with Ge'ez used liturgically after suppression in the 14th century and Amharic emerging as the official tongue. Tigre emerges in Eritrean Italian colonies, spreading as a lingua franca while Ethiopic history links Arabic morphology and Semitic lexicography to Abyssinia.
In Wentworth Falls Australia two golf balls were struck simultaneously by Mr Avery and the local pro EH Barnes. The balls met in the air above the ninth green, then both dropped into the hole as Dr Alcorn watched from the pin. The shots finished on opposite sides of the green and the players knew they had struck together.
Paris reports a sweeping shift for the 1928 29 season with nine new theatres and twenty new managers. The revival of thrills and horror in plays continues from Grand Guignol to St Georges theatre under a former director, signaling a transformation in Paris dramatic production driven by modern stage equipment and back stage modernization.
Cherbourg dispatch reports Premier Poincare issued an order prohibiting a bullfight linked to the Cherbourger festival. Promoters advertised a real event with picadors banderillas and a death duel. Norman farmers, famed for animal aversion, appealed to Paris.
Washington observes the Republican committee’s first 1928 fundraising report shows 1,539 contributors from 15 to 20 million voters, with most gifts under $60 and many as low as $4. A handful of large donors include Mortimer L. Schiff, Dwight W. Morrow, James A. Patten, James Simpson, Julius Rosenwald, Helen Upham and Fred Upham. Major funds target a $2 million budget, with New York, Chicago and Pittsburgh as primary sources. The piece notes broad fundraising gaps, oil money scarce, and emphasizes turnout efforts as the campaign’s cash need.
Nassau, Bahamas, Sept 10. Plans for twelve new lighthouses in the Bahama islands have been approved under Trinity House London. Construction will take eight years with sixty men and two schooners assigned. Lights will be modern with long range reflectors. At Stirrups Day the light will be a four flash type every 15 minutes, visible for 25 miles.
Paris reports President Doumergue spent the summer in rural seclusion at Rambouillet, avoiding social duties and official tours. He kept a quiet profile with only one garden party for the new British ambassador as Hussars and guards maintained the castle grounds.
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