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Newspaper
Semi Weekly Reporter
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1907
Page
7
Waterloo Reporter announces evening edition operations with subscription rates and mailing details. Readers are reminded to report address changes to ensure delivery, and a note compares the Times-Tribune’s new appearance to the Reporter’s long-standing style, suggesting possible future copying.
A long fragment discusses how beauty influences hiring in restaurants, offices, and schools. It cites examples from wait staff to stenographers and bookkeepers, noting preferences for attractive or plain workers, and suggests beauty can aid or hinder performance and social dynamics. The piece cites a Waterloo lawyer and a superintendent of schools.
The piece notes New Hampshire laws targeting abandoned farms for census and funding, with 4100 farms sold for summer homes and over 5000 existing houses remodeled by purchasers. Notable buyers include Grover Cleveland, Winston Churchill, and Kenyon Cox, as farms spread across counties. It cites 209000 summer visitors annually and a 7000 permanent population increase, estimating $50 million spent by seasonal residents, while blaming eastern farm decline on cheaper western land and industrial growth.
An old man’s health warning urges Foley's Kidney Cure at first signs of danger. The ad cites chronic prostate and kidney issues and praises the remedy for restoring well being after years of suffering. A Rockport Missouri user reports dramatic improvement after two bottles, claiming lasting relief.
Fragmented notices report a July reorganization of a Griswold bank with $50,000 capital to serve farmers, a mayoral ban on city racebook betting in Mason City, and various local incidents. Readers learn of a farm sale at $275.50 per acre, a La Grand store burglary, injuries from a scaffold collapse, a court case over a gun accident, and several community events and health notes.
The article reviews how digestive juices break down food and how much of proteins, carbohydrates, gums, and cellulose are digested and absorbed. It notes variability by fodder type, plant maturity, processing, and animal species, with emphasis on digestion efficiency, palatability, and the limits of current knowledge. It discusses impacts of drying, preserving, grinding, salt, and feeding methods on digestibility, and compares ruminants to horses and swine.
The Otsego Journal Gilbertsville editor Win M. Diets endorses King’s New Discovery as a universal remedy for coughs and colds. He claims it cures lung and throat diseases, with a trial bottle offered free. Wangier Bros drug store guarantees never to disappoint. 50 cents or 1.00.
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