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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1928
Page
14
Waterloo Evening Courier September 17 1928 page fragment shows service ads for moving and storage beauty shops and salons with numerous names such as Kathryn Quinn Lily Stiles La France and Marie Hoppers. It lists male and female help wanted positions including salesmen drivers and domestic workers alongside an employment agency and hauling services with contact details and location in Waterloo Iowa.
Multiple rental notices list sleeping rooms and apartments in Waterloo area homes and buildings. Advertised options include private home rooms near east business district, front rooms on Vine Street, two cozy sleeping rooms with optional garage, well furnished rooms on Walnut and Mullan avenues, and several apartments with heat and water furnished or available unfurnished. several phone contacts provided.
Real estate listings advertise multiple houses for sale or rent with terms, including a new seven room bungalow with garage, large lot, built in features, and easy payments. Several bungalows and modern homes near schools and town, with prices around 3000 to 4500, and trade options. Also auto and second hand listings, auctions, and miscellaneous household items.
Legal notice stating I will not be responsible for debts contracted by anyone other than myself. Signed by J. Br. Howe.
Omaha Livestock market report shows hog receipts about 8,600 with steady to strong packer demand and several price levels for different weight ranges. Cattle receipts around 25,000 with feeders and steers mostly steady to slightly lower. sheep receipts about 30,000 with fat lambs and ewes showing varied demand. Reports from St Louis and Chicago mirror mixed futures and local price shifts across hogs cattle and sheep markets.
Dr Ray Latham new president of Iowa State Teachers College Cedar Falls told Cedar Falls Rotary that the United States spends far less per capita on teacher training than other nations and that 800000 public school teachers are largely under trained. He praised past leaders and urged citizens to support future school programs while noting H H Seerley’s 42 years of work in advancing teacher training.
Mrs Rose Metcalf aged 89 suffered a bad fracture of her right hip in a fall at 1320 Third Street West. She was reported improved today at St Francis Hospital and doctors predicted recovery. Also, the Grand Jury met at the courthouse with no criminal cases assigned yet and the murder case against Kenneth Gork remains the most important item on the docket.
Savannah business leaders rely on stenographers for accuracy in a Kiwanis spelling bee. Oregon fish and game workers saved millions of bass and catfish by moving fish from sloughs to avoid extinction. Havana newsboys endure a routine rest day after distributing papers. Irma Von Names, 18, becomes Georgia's youngest lawyer, trained by her father without law school. A Rock Rapids building renovation uncovers three champagne bottles.
Fragmented clipping recounts Coleman's Texas saloon era and Rawlins Gilliland as county attorney who has seen four men make statements to him. It notes planes replacing caravans between Tashkend and Kabul, with seven to eight hour air travel and 25 to 30 day desert caravans, plus a Paris report about heavyweights and a taxi case in Wigan. It also contrasts Ohio River trade with past steamers, citing 22,000,000 tons last year and 1,94¢ as a garbled January figure.
In Key West Florida Ruth Bryan Owen Democratic nominee for congress has adopted presidential strategy lessons. She recently caught her first fish a 14 pound yellowjack noted among Florida waters for gameness. The article also mentions 303 motorcycles worldwide and an increase of 268 583 during 1927.
Mrs H J Hesse of San Diego seeks her daughter Vera adopted 31 years ago after being given up at age two to Dr BE Gould of Chicago. The Goulds once lived in Waterloo. Hesse plans a brief Berwyn visit and asks anyone with information to contact Emil A Steffen, Waterloo police identification officer.
Visitors from Sioux City, Council Bluffs, Cedar Rapids, Cedar Falls, Mason City, Des Moines and Waterloo attended a new Ben Hur court installation in Newton. Initiatory work for the class of ’ts was showcased by the Waterloo degree team. Dinner followed at Log Cabin Park pavilion.
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