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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1926
Page
16
An incident aboard the vessel CAPTAIN JOHNNY, first mate and ten brave sailors confronts a hail of bullets. The wild night features a purple striped figure and a massive tree scene as bullets fly past, echoing across rivers.
Russell Rosendahl seeks 25000 damages against Roscoe and Merle Murphy claiming a negligent car crash caused a leg injury and months in hospital. Lansing Fish & Fur market seeks 1075.22 damages from W C F railway over buffalo fish shipment routed via Cedar Rapids to Chicago with losses from misrouting and delay.
Formal opening of the new addition at the J St Albany Casket Co plant at 31h Falls Ave will be Sept 21 and 22 with 259 to 300 undertakers from many states attending. Thornton B Barnes of New York will lecture and demonstrate. Joseph W Sletten of Chicago will give the opening address. A large display of burial cases, including a duplicate casket of Rudolph Valentini, will be shown. Luncheon and dinner will be served. a five piece orchestra will perform. visitors receive free Electric Park access on Wed. There is a fiddlers contest with $100 in prizes. The brick and tile addition is 78 by 56 feet with three floors. About 40 work in the metal dept. a Grinnell sprinkler system is being installed.
Floyd county board plans to let contracts for about 10 miles of the Nashua road between Charles City and Nashua, with plans ready by the highway commission. Work includes grading bridges and culverts in preparation for paving next year. Contracts may also cover Rockford road graveling and grading, linking to Charles City.
A crowded column lists numerous birth announcements with each family name and address, noting Sept dates and newborns including Gloria Ann, Merilyn Jean, Ruth Staxtine, and Helen Mary among others. The text ends with Cedar Rapids voting by machine details Linn county ordering 80 machines and ten spares.
The piece blends literary opinion and reminiscence, recounting a reader’s critique of modern books, a New York figure, and warnings about public taste. It notes a reader’s dismissal of pretension, praises straightforward writing, and references James W. Elliott and a musical return. The author laments celebrity bias and urges encouragement for fallen figures.
Destruction occurred at Whitwell Manufacturing plant in Des Moines with losses estimated at $5000. The blaze began yesterday and caused substantial damage to machinery and stock. Local fire officials investigated the cause as they began cleanup and assessment of inventory.
A fall publishing wave highlights early American works, including Hancock’s overland narrative and The Yarn of a Yankee Privateer. Funk & Wagnalls offers a $500 reward for author clues, while Doubleday and co. plan Button Gwinnett biography.
A 266 pound meteorite reportedly struck earth in 1492. The United States uses about one fifth of global sugar production. Indigenous peoples taught settlers to drop fish into corn hills as fertilizer for soil enrichment.
A medieval style tale set around 25 000 B C with a Paleolithic warrior seeking a bride. Syragoethe vie is the protesting heroine in Max Besouen s Bison of Clay translated by Robert Duffus for Longmans Green. The author shifts from explorer to novelist treasure of romance around cave relics in France.
Ray Shanks, 56, convicted of killing his wife and 19 year old son in a year ago stabbing, is executed by a water‑driven gallows in Canon City. Neighbors restrained him after his daughter Ruth Morgan fled the shooting scene. The daughter’s testimony secured the first degree murder conviction.
With the partial completion of the 1927 West High year book staff, material gathering has begun. Editor-in-chief Phil Rausch leads assistants Josephine Maine administration Robert Stevenson under glassmen activities Mary Northey girls athletics Bertha Ferris organizations Ruth Hitchcock features. A study of 500 honey samples shows grades from water clear to almost black.
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