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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1928
Page
3
A Waterloo reader notes an alarming Chicago issue where police are accused of taking protection money from booze runners, gamblers, and vice lords. Letters describe uniformed officers soliciting for event tickets and towing scams in Grant Park, highlighting systemic graft and public outrage.
The United States Golf Association faces criticism for its 18 hole rounds in the national amateur championship. Bobby Jones’s experience suggests the format unfairly filters players, with additional 36 hole tests and elimination rounds raising questions about the fairness and efficiency of selecting a champion.
A Paris bound guide titled La France Gastronomique focuses on regional foods rather than scenery. Writer G B Stern critiques the omission of lodging, hotel services, theatres, and American business offices, arguing tourists want practical insider data and pay for it.
Mayer Gillis, known as Bossy, pleads before Newburyport town council to approve a gasoline filling station in a restricted residential district. In a tense six to five vote, officials grant the permit amid a crowd’s sardonic laughter and mixed public sentiment. The piece notes a shift in community mood and reflects on changing times.
The passage details a transformation from traditional labor to electric devices in the home. It highlights canned lightning via radio and vacuum sweepers, electric stoves, refrigeration, heating systems, electric sinks, and motorized sewing machines. It argues science makes daily chores easier, reducing drudgery and expanding leisure and self-improvement.
Dr. William Brady outlines three toe itch types: ground itch from hookworm larvae causing severe, weeks-long dermatitis. a growing toe ringworm spread in pools and gym floors with peeling skin and itching. and a vague third form linked to excessive sweating with cracking skin. He warns barefoot exposure in hookworm areas and recommends Whibfield’s ointment—salicylic and benzoic acids in petrolatum—applied nightly for several days.
War and Science argues that modern war and science unsettle social and spiritual ideals, stirring leadership to address deep questions. It notes science and war compel a readjustment of life, break complacencies, and raise doubts about a universe once viewed as simple and controllable.
The piece notes multiple suicides along the elevated in New York City including a famous “death by own action Peak” near One Hundred Tenth Street. It details guard efforts, methods of premeditation, and incidents on Woolworth and other tall buildings, with tangential anecdotes about real estate color schemes and Broadway bonus girl fights.
Uncle Wiggily meets Mama Kat on her porch in a September morning. She laments Pussy Kat's teasing making her thin. the kindly rabbit notes her frail condition and ponders how to help.
The narrator notes a new "Ittin" kitten, described by Mama Kat as dear and mischievous, playful and energetic. Uncle Wiggils agrees that kittens and puppies must play and pretend to catch mice to learn.
Uncle Wigglily helps settle Pussy’s tail chasing chaos in a playful tale. Mama Kat’s tail loses fur from Pussy’s antics until Uncle Wigglily devises a feather ball solution, easing Pussy’s urge to pounce and restoring tails to normal. The piece then shifts to a deflation critique attributed to Hon. Josephus Daniels.
Adventurer Alan Dighton, a war veteran, is summoned by his secret service chief Jan Taverner as Corlitt is killed by a device linked to Daudot. Dighton travels from London to Paris and Turin chasing the pocket death weapon and a dangerous agent known as The Lizard while decoding clues, pearls, and a jade disc. The plot juxtaposes intrigue, espionage, and peril across Europe with Dighton confronting Marney and Daudet amid shifting loyalties.
Uncle Ray describes the bold behavior of flycatchers, small but fierce birds that attack hawks and crows, pecking attackers and twisting away. He mentions tomfools and kingbirds, the tiny ruby-throated hummingbird, and plycatehes in a lively note on insect hunting and defensive tactics. Tomorrow the Fighting Birds.
Questions on wild geese gender, raccoon homes, lightning bug light are teased. Answers reveal roadrunner diet including snakes and insects, horned toad cat feeding behavior and care, and uncertainty about fringe gentian growth from seeds in swamps with notes on sowing by humans.
Abe Martin notes the waning appeal of speak easies as crowds fail to roar at references to Bryan. Over forty years many records have fallen yet applause never returns to the uproar once tied to such talk.
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