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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1919
Page
2
The Waterloo article critiques the forthcoming auto tax law, arguing the weight and value fees create inequities. It notes the 1 percent value tax ignores depreciation, forcing owners to pay on original cost well after value has fallen, and deems a sliding scale essential for fairness.
The article notes several Iowa counties Greene Carroll Cerro Gordo and Black Hawk pushing federal aid road programs for 1919 to build gravel and paved routes. It cites specific allotments 162000 120000 plus 40090 matches and a 1918 110000 Cedar Falls Waterloo link. It urges joint action by county boards Cedar Falls Waterloo and townships with Representative Santee to secure funds before they run out.
The report notes a farmer delaying his wedding while considering a wage change to support a future home. It highlights the tension between personal plans and earnings, reflecting common rural life themes found in early 20th century notices.
The piece discusses Professor William James and Henry Drummond on rest and practical psychology, noting the gap between theory and experience in popular religion. It includes reader questions about nervousness, hair preservation, Meniere's disease, eye puffiness, ear symptoms, and leucoderma with doctor’s cautions and explanations.
The article traces early childhood self awareness from infancy, noting the shift from inside to outside perception. It explains that sensing and thinking occur in the brain, not the senses, and that light and sound exist as brain-encoded forms. The infant learns meanings gradually, akin to reading telegraph signals.
A reflective piece on how small remarks linger in memory. The narrator recalls a summer hotel conversation about posture and a woman whose casual advice prompts recurring reminders, shaping focus and occasional mistakes. Similar anecdotes about tying shoes and daily tasks show how unrelated people trigger mental cues.
A ragged boy Milo from an Italian city earns little from his grandmother. He toils to paint and rises in fame while Beatrice Montague, a 14 year old noble, watches from the palace gates. On St James Eve Milo wanders to a ruined mill where a strange feeling overtakes him.
A vintage ad explains mixing two lemons with three ounces of orchard white to create a quarter pint freckle and blemish lotion. Apply daily to face neck arms and legs to fade freckles and brighten skin. Safe, mild, and inexpensive, grocers or drug stores supply the ingredients.
Milo discovers a haunted old mill where twelve Brownies conjure gold at midnight. The mill spits out gold coins as the creatures depart at dawn. Milo transports the treasure to town, buys a duke’s palace, marries Beatrice, and they live there. Also a note mentions South African railways as government owned.
These brief sketches from 200 suggest two articles found in every dry goods shop. Solve what they are. Answer to No. 43 states the college girl's age was 18 years. Copyright 1918 by Sam Lord.
Des Moines Capital notes improved labor conditions driven by wartime demands. New protections include industrial representation, profit sharing, pension and disability benefits, health housing and education programs. A large corporation held plant elections creating a worker–officer council and a consensus constitution. The piece warns agitators lose leverage once agreements mature.
In vintage advertisement language, Mother's Friend is touted as an external application to ease pregnancy. It claims to relax nerves, cords, ligaments, reduce nausea and nervousness, and shorten the labor crisis. The Bradfield Regulator Company invites readers to request their motherhood book and a bottle of Mother's Friend from Atlanta, Georgia.
Dr Edwards Olive Tablets are a mild effective liver and bowel laxative, offered as a non calomel alternative. They claim quick relief without harming teeth or causing the bad after effects of strong liquids. Used for headaches dullness and that heavy feeling tied to constipation and liver disorder. Sold by druggists.
Farmers in Iowa are making more and better improvements on their farms despite rising costs for materials and labor. The Webster City Freeman Journal notes widespread farm upgrading as corn, pork, beef land, and hay outputs decline, allowing bigger barn projects than ever before in U.S. history.
Stop itching eczema quickly by applying Zemo, available at druggists. Extra large bottle costs $1.00. Healing begins the moment Zemo is applied and, in time, removes eczema, tetter, pimples, rash, blackheads, and similar skin diseases. The E. W. Rose Co. Cleveland Ohio.
The General Assembly session did not repeal many laws but did repeal several political careers, reshaping leadership and policy momentum as legislators addressed long standing issues and potential shifts in influence. Strong personalities and party dynamics surfaced as key factors in the outcomes.
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