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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1923
Page
3
A fragmented newspaper page from Waterloo Iowa includes routine notices, advertising policy, and a long column about bread consumption and wheat campaigns. It reflects 1920s press language and local economic concerns, citing figures, publications, and regional commentary.
The proposed payments to ex-service men, referred to as the bonus, remain distant from bank accounts despite all preliminaries. Bond houses show reluctance to lend on the 4 1/4 percent basis and bond buyers are on standby as the Treasury digests the matter.
Adwaral Price Bell of the Chicago Daily News told Des Moines that despite Germany's war hardship and poverty it remains best positioned among nations to endure the next phase. He indicated Germany is better prepared now than any other country to handle the difficult period ahead.
In Chicago public high schools a debate rises over teaching human life and reproduction. The article notes few teachers feel prepared, calls for biologist training, and mentions U S Public Health Service pamphlets for educators, parents, and youth. It cites pamphlets A through E and a government pamphlet The Wonderful Story of Life, with guidance on early age instruction and responsible parenting.
Andrew and Imogene discuss spring wanderlust and dream of gypsy life before admitting a practical constraint. The couple imagines freedom to roam, swap stories, and live off the road, then acknowledge the need for daily routines like bathing.
A narrator recalls Jenkins singing Amazing Grace with Amen from Williams, noting the crowd's emotion and a sense of sacred memory. The interwoven memories of mothers, religion, and a starry night through a casement frame the scene of communal singing and reverent response.
A brief line notes a man seeking release from troubling influences as he prays for deliverance from overzealous companions. The fragment hints at social pressure and personal conflict within a community setting.
Betsam is freed by the Wizard who summons rain clouds to lift him toward a mountain top. The Mountain Witch rides a broom with her cat watching as Betsam witnesses her return. A clash ends with the Witch and cat toppled down the slope and vanish. Betsam leaves the scene to find the raincloud cave.
A humorous Abe Martin column notes that public figures and women in Congress can’t derail traditional domestic life, poking fun at appearances and societal expectations with local wit and sarcasm.
Fifty years ago to spring 1873, Lincoln township mourns a 32-year-old mother with five children after bowel inflammation. Changes note Charles Mutlar buying E. Hilake’s house near the new school and a new Maxfield post office with Henry Baumbach as postmaster. Other items report a $5,000 sale of the Jefferson street Pennsylvania house, a garbled caution to fishermen, a Cedar River pickerel note, and Iowa statistics on agriculture clergy government lawyers doctors teachers.
Forties era notes report in Colonial style city items and a violent family tragedy near Earlville. A farmer Charles J Smith killed wife and two sons then took poison. immigrant trains north to Dakota and various local developments are sketched with odd asides and gossip.
Twenty years ago April 18 1903 Dr J E Brinkman and Rev J E L Boies died after two weeks typhoid fever. Boies 42 year old, Cornell grad, famed trial lawyer, leaves wife Florence Raymond and six siblings in Roosevelt era family. Funeral set for First Presbyterian. Also reports on Hummel hotel construction, hailstorm with northwest gale, and record heat.
A rich man about town, Malcolm Starmount, plans a fresh start after a wild party. He encounters Mary Devlin a poverty stricken teen and becomes entangled with Nalda Courteney and other revelers as a murder scare, a staged accident, and a series of romantic entanglements unfold across New York and Buenos Aires.
Readers submit queries on hyacinths rabbits and birds. The column provides practical gardening tips including soil health flea control and watering, plus brief notes on squire tail function and a Canadian land grant for veterans.
A wordplay puzzle uses steps like adding removing letters and phrases to yield the name of a cherished European actress. The clue sequence involves multiplying, subtracting, and inserting terms such as woodland store and solid substance to form the final name.
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