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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1912
Page
2
Public notice from the Waterloo Evening Courier outlining advertising rates and terms. It states daily publication except Sundays, weekly tri weekly editions, post office entry as second class matter, larger circulation, rates by word, minimum 25 cents, special contract terms, and contact telephone 1811 for Courier staff.
A series of candidate declarations for the June 1912 Republican primaries in Black Hawk County. H C Bernbrook seeks county attorney and county representative. Frank T Bentley runs for county treasurer. Charles Plummer for county recorder. James J Rainbow for county auditor. All state allegiance to party electors and the primary decision.
A historical column reflects on the sinking of the Titanic, noting that fate spares no class or wealth. It contemplates the fragile safety of modern life despite scientific progress and warns that disaster can strike any person, anywhere, at any moment.
A dramatic, satirical frontier-era verse fragment laments the sinking of the Titanic and mocks fate, with Neptune and the furies chanted in a disdainful chorus. The speaker belittles the loss, counting 1,340 as a trivial number among vast deaths.
Preliminary details announce the Pulitzer journalism program at Columbian College funded by Joseph Pulitzer. Notables on the advisory board include Samuel Bowles Nicholas Murray Butler Victor Lawson and Whitelaw Reid. Admission may admit non matriculated students with evidence of maturity and experience. Tuition runs about 180 dollars yearly and the curriculum covers newspaper French and German journalism writing laboratory history law and statistics. The degree offered is Bachelor of Literature. The piece notes the program will boost journalist training and shorten traditional career years as it opens to aspirants.
A compilation of editorials notes the primaries’ impact on anti Taft sentiment and Roosevelt La Follette forces. It highlights demonstrations and political calculations across Cedar Rapids Cedar Falls Webster City and Dubuque with references to convention dynamics and delegate discipline.
The passages discuss pressure on a president to stay aligned, then switch to Indian warfare tactics and prisoner handling. It notes doubt about Taft's control of a state convention amid Roosevelt and Cumming forces. Delegates are split, with Roosevelt having twenty four instructed delegates and many uninstructed delegations creating an unsettled political picture.
An article argues the best inexpensive item often surpasses a pricier but flashy buy. It cites two brides nine years apart choosing white beds over brass, showing durable quality beats surface appeal. It urges buying good oak, first class textiles, and quality foods as wise home economics.
In Chicago the debate over teaching sex hygiene in schools features opposition labeling the plan as immodest and harmful to youth. Trustees question flow of information while advocates argue clean facts educate not corrupt minds, urging rational moral understanding and informed discussion.
A mosaic of fragmentary notes and headlines from newspapers comments on adolescence and social topics. The text references Dean Sumner’s proposal, marriage pressures, and quips about divorces, accidents, and oddities from Chicago News and Boston Globe, with poetry and a light self-mocking closer from Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Consul Albert of Halstead and other consular reps report to the U S bureau of manufactures on United Kingdom ready made clothing. Birmingham offers ready made suits from 6 to 25 dollars, but many prefer made to measure for better fit and quality. English cloths and hand sewing are valued, yet American style defects deter British buyers. In boys wear, ready made clothes are affordable and well cut, though British tastes diverge from American styles.
An Englishman prefers unique, well-fitted garments and dislikes ready-made patterns that repeat. The article notes English clothes show darker tones and sharper diagonals than American styles, though they are cheaper, they may not hold shape as well. It mentions English fabrics use less horsehair, preferring linen or canvas, with notable horsehair cloth produced in the district.
The piece argues a congressional parcels post act would divert rural trade to city mail order merchants, weaken 1,000,000 retail dealers and home markets for farm products, and depress farm income. It challenges efficiency claims, warns of postal deficits, cites European contrasts, and defends rural merchants against charges they exploit farmers.
In bulk they will not divide it up in quantities to suit town families, send it by parcels post and wait to their money till pay day.
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