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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1914
Page
2
Fragmentary newspaper masthead and ad text note rates and contact details. The item lists editorial leadership and business staff and includes a notice about advertising charges and telephone contact, with references to Waterloo Iowa.
The Waterloo community observes Easter with mixed joy and sorrow as families gather to reflect on the meaning of the day while the widow and five children of Fred Fairbanks cope with sudden loss. The Daily Reporter urges readers to donate through Good Fellows and other groups to ease the family’s burden and prevent destitution.
The article discusses winter unemployment and its social repercussions in big cities. It argues that when millions lack work, the surplus becomes inevitable and the poorest bear the burden, condemning the system for producing hunger and want without a remedy.
The column riffs on age, wisdom, and cultural figures with a skeptical eye toward progress and treaties. It references Taft, Henry Cabot Lodge era figures, a potential Colombia canal settlement, and a Hawaiian divorce case, weaving speculative notes on future prosperity and global tensions.
The text discusses how holding strong ideas can dominate thinking and distort judgment. It argues that fixation on beliefs can edge one toward mild insanity and that both poets and money makers may be influenced similarly by their convictions.
A reflective Easter sermon notes Christ’s resurrection as proof of immortality. It asserts the tomb’s emptiness and Christ’s triumph over death, linking faith to enduring hope and the divine pledge of eternal life for believers.
George Fitch surveys anger and its consequences with dry humor. He argues anger blinds thinking, disrupts self control, harms families, and misuses strength, urging self restraint and timing to avoid needless eruptions. The essay contrasts harmful outbursts with disciplined, strategic expression.
A collage notes seed catalogs praised as pretty fiction from Dubuque Times Journal and a New York society urging posture to influence steadiness elsewhere. It references tariff debates aiding hoop steel sales and a shift to better local governance with efficiency in public service.
In sharp commentary the article mocks a figure whose speech to an imaginary audience and reception of imagined applause epitomize the dated leadership. The tone suggests nostalgia for a bygone era and critiques present rhetoric as hollow.
A miscellany of quotes from Secretary of War Garrison about diplomacy and elegance, a humorous exchange on improvised dress, a pun about Esau and postage, a playful cautionary poem about brightness, a grandmotherly quip from a Chicago paper, Mrs. John Astor supporting suffrage with Newport audience remarks, and a note that Bermuda shipped over 93,000 pounds of onion seed to the United States in 1513.
The article notes the New York Pennsylvania Station spans 28 acres, followed by Gare Saint Lazare in Paris at 26 and Edinburgh Waverley at 23. It mentions a new fo ceramic telescope for French heavy artillery enabling full horizon visibility from the gun. It also reports South China yields over 40 thousand bales of raw silk annually and exports above 10 million pounds valued at over 17 million dollars.
Numerous declarations of candidacy for county treasurer judge coroner and state representative from Black Hawk county. Names include E Duke Naven James Eason Sidney D Smith A Lovejoy John A Tuthill Upton Kepford H E Tullar and others with June 1 1914 primaries.
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