Striking Object Lessons and Genoa Debate Run-On
Davenport voters rejected Socialist rule after two failed years, with the party garnering under 10 percent. Genoa sees a surprising pact between Germany and Russia, while France weighs peace vs large armies amid shifting alliances. Calls for investigations into alleged graft press Cabinet Weeks and Daugherty to prove or disprove charges.
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Davenport
Davensport
Russia
North Dakota
Ram
Iowa
Ax Service
Woodruff
Michigan
Johnson
South Dakota
Congress
Weeks
Wilson
Harding
National Treasury
Daugherty
Johnson and
Abe Martin Sees Radio Help Bring Back Home Page Feel
Abe Martin thanks the radio as the home show signs of regaining its appeal and the ability to compete with outside attractions. He notes pity for the man who drinks Yarnish and cannot see his finish.
Candy and sugar myths in Dr Brady column
Personal Health Service by William Brady advises moderation of sweets for children and adults. It argues excess sugar rarely harms teeth but can cause water retention and flabbiness, recommends dessert time for treats and careful diet. Includes Q A on whooping cough care and pupil nurses pay with guidance to contact Dr Brady via the newspaper.
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Paley Paul
Chia
Harvard
New York
Jess
Feasion
Cmises
Siearas
Brady
Sali
William Brady
Public Speaking Woes and Tactical Nerves Revealed
Imogene urges a successful talk while Andrew sketches his plan. He notes audience psychology, mishaps at banquets, and a speaker’s anxiety. A later exchange shifts to a murder‑mystery tone with ledgers, accountants, and a cryptic move toward St Mary Axe.
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Imogene
Andrew
Fron
The Old Handpress and The Daffodil Murder
A fragment mixes poetry on the old handpress with bustling city scenes. Tarling and Whiteside flee a blazing chartered accountants firm at St Mary Axe where Milburgh’s guilt may burn away with the evidence in a dawning thriller climax.
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Tarling
Wilburgh
Blackfriars Bridge
Queen Victoria Street
Whiteside
Cannon Street
St. Mary Axe
Dashwood and Solomon
Milburgh
Daffodil Murder in London Park near Miss Rider
Tarling investigates the Daffodil murder of Thornton Lyne in London’s parks. Miss Odette Rider, once suspected, seems to have vanished. Tarling and Whiteside pursue clues, including Ling Chu’s confessed actions and Milburgh’s cottage search, while Tarling’s pistol is tied to Lyne’s death.
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Thornton Lyne
Lomson Park
Quette Rider
Lyne
Tarling
Milburgh
Scotland Yard
Ling Chu
Millburgh
Odette Rider
Whiteside
Bondstreet
Jackson
Brain Test Fragments From AAM Loud Passage
AAM Loud presents a fragmented brain test passage with mentions of US city names. It contains garbled lines about postal workers and a porter, plus stray phrases about bears and sheep folds. The text reads as an OCR fragment with unclear context and no coherent event.
Fifty Years Ago In The Courier April 28 1872
Obituary notes Nathan Bullock died April 14 at age 60 after bowel inflammation. C Delphine M wife of C F Powder or Power? died April 15 at 24. Alford & McClure own abstracts of title to Black Hawk county real estate. Lore Alford is a notable lawyer and conveyancer. A coal prospecting venture on Dr Buechly’s premises aims to test for coal beneath Waterloo. BCR&M railroad to equip trains with air brakes for safety. Citizens urged to plant shade trees for windbreaks. Editorials set in solid type. advertising dominates the issue. Town wind damaged buildings. Central House sign blown down. Brubacher Bros lease space in Jefferson Street Methodist church basement for storage of agricultural machinery. A joking remark mocks a Water Pipe firm Brubacher, Religion Co.
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Nathan Bullock
Waterloo
C. Delphine M
C.F. Powter
Alford & McClure
Redmond & McClure
Black Hawk County
Lore Alford
Brubacher Bros
Jefferson Street Methodist Church
Brubachor, Religion .& Co
Burroughs Nature Club Notes 1921 Q A column
Q and A style feature from Burroughs Nature Club Notes asks about amber utility air currents and coal clinker lumps. Readers are invited to send questions to the Nature Notes Dept for answers in future installments.
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Burroughs Nature Club
Houghton Mifflin CO
Nature Notes
Answers to Previous Questions on Beetle Wings and Chin Shape
In this column the author discusses insect wing scales and their possible link to brain development in humans, then pivots to questions about human chins and robins as cherry pests. It argues robins help orchard health by controlling insects, suggesting methods to deter birds while protecting crops.
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Col
Shane
Avery
Fortieth Anniversary Notes and Local News Briefs
Forty years ago reports from April 10 1882 record a tame owl incident at B G Jennings saloon in Gadan Falls, damage to Nick Sorensen’s glass and billiard equipment, a fire at George W Miller’s foundry in Gast Waterloo with an $8000 loss, and community efforts to raise funds to repaint a Catholic church. Also listed are seeding progress, a beer market note, new city salary scales, a marriage at Grace M E church, a city ale license set at 500, wolves bounty payments, Des Moines prohibition convention chatter, and Iowa probate proscriptions by local brewers.
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B. G. Jennings
Nick Sorensen
Gadan Falls
Des Moines
Waterloo
J. Gold
Stein
Moses Frank
Twenty Years Ago in Waterloo Area News Easter 1902
Twenty years ago on April 19 1902 Waterloo reports the Illinois Central strike settled and officers J E Bailey and J W Schultz die from injuries and a run away accident. Local Elks tour the northwest visiting Salt Lake City while Wateroo merchants and teachers receive appointments and pay raises. A burglar targets Chapmans grocery in Lipden adding $20 in cigars. Louise Phelps and Philip Kieffer wed on April 17. Carnegie library gift to Waterloo amounting to 30000 drawn to Lincoln park center considered. Streetcar collision on Independence Avenue injures four. Local surveyor Nicholas Blees celebrates a $200 purchase from Kascht Bros.
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W. HH. Gartman
West Park
John C. Hartman
A.W. Peterson
Treas
Cutter
Milf
Associated Press
Semper Audit Bureau of
B. G. Dougherty
Washington, D. C
Philadelpia
Chicago
Los Angeles
San Neleco
Story
Brooks & Finley
Genoa
Germany
France
Europe
Prof
Hoar
Fort Dodge Sharp
Congresstian Swesat
Old
Ioway
Charles City
Towa
Sweet of
Abe Martin
M. D
Familly
Friend Wife
Rod Fulkerson
Eneve
California Society
Hertford
Lyne’s
House of Com
Mons
Jove
Tiree
Thames Embankment
Whitesids
Dashwood & Solomon
Frank L. Stanton
Wranklin
Ola
F Gnes
Billville
Satan
Edgar Wallacd Bor
Small, Maynard & Company (Incorporated
Miss Hider
Miss Rider
Wwe
Jack
Stan
Thua Luvana
Mike Pesisrt
AAM Loud
United States
Gays
Wei
The
Courier
Greene, Ja
George W. Miller
Joseph King
L. P. Walker
Tase Company
D. C. Bandfield
Misa Lizzie Kilpatrick
F. B. Cherrington
Grace M. E. Church
la Porte City
John Lynch
Mt. Vernon Township
N. B. Choate
Bennington
J. EB. Brett
Patrick Meany
Barclay
Jacob Boehmler
Union
Frank Eastman
Cedar
Illinois Central
Etta
Isabel Shilliam
Helen Wangler
Shiliam
Elks
C. L Kingsley
C. EB. Pickett
Northwest
Salt Lake City
J. W. Schultz
Waterloo Furniture Company
Freeman H. Bloodgood
Waterloo East
Lydia Hinman
Nettie Kepler
Jessie Harbin
Margaret van Meter
Nellie Hoxie
Mary McDuffie
Etts Bankson
Thurselda Zellhoofer
A. D. McKinley
Minnie Edwards
Chapman
Lipden Addition
Louise Phelps
Philip Kieffer
Mark Cooney
Bette Sherman
Andrew Carnegie Tron King and Philanthropist
Emmons Johnson
Lincoln Park
J. G. Slifer
Cdnductor
Dorian
Independence Avenue
Lafayette and
Witth Streets
Nicholas Blees
Fox Township
Kascht Bros
Gilbertgillie
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