Water and water supply plan for Cedar Rapids discussed
Cedar Rapids engineers propose using the river as the water source with a $640,000 pumping station filtration and purification plant. Well water from Prairie creek sites proves unreliable as aquifers drop and affect nearby wells. drought or fires could deplete supplies. Open sewers threaten streams and health, urging purification and upstream waste removal. Local editorial warns crime and vice demand action and public safety needs leadership to curb lawbreaking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Prairie Creek
Public funding disclosures reshape presidential campaign
The 1925 Congressional act requiring campaign committees to report contributions marks a turning point for the 1928 race. National committees report around $600,000 each so far, with millions more expected. Democrats allocate $25,000 for St Louis and $20,000 for Massachusetts. the Anti-Saloon League shows several large gifts. Missouri Association Against Prohibition has $8,000. The era of undisclosed finance ends as the public eye scrutinizes funding sources and motives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
St. Louis
Massachusetts
Anti-Saloon League
Missouri Association Against Prohibition
World Praise For Hoover Across Global Press
International outlets from Temps to Journal de Geneve laud Hoover for accomplishments and leadership. Neutral observers, including Swiss editor William Martin, note widespread belief in his capability, honesty, and administrative gifts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gov. Smith
Herbert Hoover
Temps
Paris
L'Independence Belge
Matin
Frankfurter Zeitung
Frank
Roosevelt
Philadelphia Shadows Boo Boo Hoff and Crime
In darkest Philadelphia Mayor Mackey seeks a spiritual revival by Reverend Sunday to curb bootleggers and corruption. The writer urges a direct, drastic police crackdown, firing corrupt officials and driving gangsters from the city to end the reign of terror.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Mackey
Chicago
William A. Sunday
Boo Boo” Hoff
Revival of the Good Old Rheumatiz
Dr. William Brady discusses arthritis as a general disease per Dr. Robert Osgood of Boston. He describes atrophic and proliferative arthritis, the role of focal infection, and debated regimens, noting mixed outcomes and the need for cautious treatment while emphasizing hygienic living.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert ©. Osgood
Boston
Osgood
Bulletin of the
Buffalo Academy of Medicine
Pendleton
Dr. Osgood
Pension Board
What We Know About Races by Glenn Frank Brencest
Glenn Frank Brencest argues that scientific certainty about race is lacking. He criticizes both racialists and sentimentalists and urges caution in cross breeding due to incomplete knowledge of heredity environment and social factors. The racial question remains the central political issue of the modern world.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. M. Lit Ansover
Del
Glenn Frank Brencest
University of Wisconsin
Star of the Century
Magnazine
McClure Newspaper
Gadding By Say By 0. C. McINTYRE on San Francisco Chinatown
A travel sketch contrasts San Francisco Chinatown with New York, describing lantern lit shops, jade workers, vivid color, and Western visitors’ impressions. The piece notes locals, hospitality, modernity among residents, and a playful jab at the nickname Frisco as the writer departs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San’. Francisco
Cal
San Francisco
New York
Canton
Hongkong
Grant Avenue
Chinatown
Uncle Wiggily Seeks Red Berries in Evening Quest
Baby Bunty asks where Unkle Wig is going and he explains he will gather red raspberries. The rabbit Mr Longears visits the Hollow Stump School scene as the pair speak about not using baby talk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baby Bunty
Hollow Stump
Mr. Longears
Artele
Long Ears
Uncle Wiggily
Bunty
Uncle
Jane
Annie
Uncle Wiggly
Mr. Gongears
Uncle Wigelly
Jane Fuzzy Wuazzy
Uncle Wig-gily
Nurse Jane
Fifty Years Ago in The Courier and Related Notes
A collage from the Courier recounts a Bunty and Uncle Wiggily berry tale with red berries and lost beads, then shifts to brief items including Kentuckys anti lobbying fines, a Minneapolis theft spree, and 1878 notices of Esther at the opera house, local lectures, and county affairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Kentucky
Caraway
Congress
Esther
Opera House
Tulie Beck
W. S. Burr
Ahasuerus
GC. P. Arlman
Hattie Powell
Zeresh
Julia Kinstler
Haman
Courier
Fir Grounds
Associated Press
Waterloo
ARS Ago
Local Cedar Heights land deals and political notes 1908
Twenty years ago in Cedar Heights several doctors and others purchased land from a realty syndicate. The Stewart-Simmons press moved offices. A local candidate list formed in a governor race, plus a church dinner for the elderly and a bankruptcy referee petition circulated. A mill accident and a James Black Dry Goods opening were noted along with entomology dispatches from Australia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stewart-Simmons
Metropole
Dunkelberg
Republicns
Major J. F. Lacey
Oskanoosa
Albert. B. Cummins
James Black Dry Goods Company
Myers’ Orchestra
Black
Mbt
Uncle Ray's Corner The Oldest Known Clock
A brief column explores time questioning its meaning beyond simple duration and contemplates how a clock measures our hours and moments in everyday life.
Oldest Clock in the World Revealed in Ancient Egypt
A sketch of an ancient shadow clock believed to be the oldest. It marks time by the sun’s shadow through six morning segments, with uneven spacing as the shadow lengthens toward noon. In the afternoon the device faced west to track the sun’s movement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Uncle Ray
Egypt
Burroughs Nature Club Notes Readers Questions Answered
Questions on cockroaches in birds timid wild animals and desert sand are answered in the Nature Notes column. Excerpts discuss canary vermin control methods, reasons greenish turtle fat, and reading about rubies in hogs with references to U S Dept of Documents pamphlets and library sources.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eno
Nature Notes
Holling Suds
Chelonia Mydas
U. & Dept. of
Washington, D. C
G. I. Hart
Abe Martin Quote on War, Disease, Famine and Population
Reva Wiley Tanger comments that with war outlawed and disease controlled the world faces crime tied to population. The remark rails against peddled ideas and hints at social anxieties about global population control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reva Wiley Tanger
Also Mentioned on This Page
By Tad
Lie
Tei A
C& ST
Gary
Great Britain
Wan ES
Ligur
Waterloo Evening Courier
AMC Waterloo Daily MP Reporter
Ows
United Press International News
Allness
Eee
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Thec
Galcago
Los Angeles
San
City Water
Billy
Java
William Brady, M. D
Brady
William Brady
Gadding
Say
C. McIntyre
The
McNaughs ‘Syndicate, Inc
Attica
Charlie Loo
Uncle Wiggily’s Red Berries
Howard R. Garis
Minneapolis Journal
Bishop Hartzell
Cincinnat
Bethlehem Presbyterian Church
Minneapolis
Home Mission Board
Southern Baptist Convention
Matthias Miller
Orange Township
Reform Club
George RB. Wendling
Minals
Robert G. Ingersoll
Wendling
Cedar River Park
Conger
County Board
Waterloo Gas Company
Col
D. B. Henderson
Eldora
Independence
Congregational Church
Jefferson and
Fifth Streets
A Waterson
Senator Burrows
Michigan
Harlan
Frank D. Jackson
Davie B. Henderson
Black Hawk County
Daniel & Slade
Ellen Smith
Big Creek
Spring Creek
Cedar Township
J. W. Richards
Maine
Frank Duke
Om M. BK. Loomer
McConkey
Jones County
Cedar Heights
Harold Bailey
W. B. Small
CG. A. Waterbury
Thomas Gascaden
W. Fpf. Parratt
J. F. Klingaman
J. W. Jarnagin
P. OG. A. Ferguson
A. O. Tabor
John Galloway
Mrs. Cole
Cialloway, Edwards & Lytle Syndicate
Elias Skinner
Grace M. E
Epworth League
Fred
Merrian
Croke
Cedar Falls
J. J. Rainbow
W. J
Melbourne
Australia
Government. of
Sydney
Smith
Hoover
Uncle Ray’s
Ade
Burroughs Nature Club
Houghton Mifflin Co
Abe Martin
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