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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1914
Page
2
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A Richmond editorial weighs wartime debate over Huerta and U S intervention. It praises the president for restraint yet supports demonstrating power to avert worse bloodshed. Critics in congress and London papers are examined, urging cool judgment and unity in facing grave international questions.
The piece discusses a proposed campaign by a Methodist Episcopal led group with Laymen's Missionary movement and colleges to bring public improvements to rural Iowa. It argues for studying humanity as a science to understand people, reduce prejudice, and connect mass action to social progress.
A Waterloo driven campaign sparks state wide support to represent Iowa at the Panama Pacific exposition. The Monday meeting of Iowa developers signals unity among trade improvement forces, turning a local effort into a permanent statewide advancement. Waterloians expect broad, lasting benefits from this collaboration.
A commentary laments aggressive wartime journalism and newspaper owners who push war rhetoric. It argues freedom of the press challenges ethics and questions the impact on national happiness.
Forty years ago on April 23 1874 Waterloo locals report a rousing temperance meeting at Union hall led by Rev M K Cross and Rev A D Kendly. The piece notes heavy attendance mainly women and mentions a snow storm and local civic notes.
Dispatch from Atlantic Iowa states General Kellys army sits 20 miles east of Council Bluffs last Monday afternoon with 60 men loaded in farm wagons. City editor Julian Richards acts as war correspondent. Saloon licenses set at 1200 dollars yearly. liquor sale consent granted to several firms. Thurston and Barrett married last Saturday. The assessor reports personal property valuation of 260 050 dollars and 54 names lacking on the multi petition, 44 voting last election. Three temperance meetings were held last Sunday. J J Tolerton of Cedar Falls seeks a judge seat in the Tenth judicial district.
A satirical commentary on eugenics argues about two methods to improve society. It imagines extreme measures including mandatory examinations for marriage and selective breeding, while warning such rules would reduce people to caricatures and leave only a few idealized individuals.
The speaker muses on beauty in a wheat field, praising red poppies among green stalks. He contrasts sober wheat with playful poppy caprice, arguing for a touch of color and whimsy in life. The piece celebrates wild flowers as moments of delightful folly within orderly fields.
A jumble of short items from various papers. Mentions political beats in Knoxville and Lake City, a pants mishap involving Bill Jones, and a note on ecologists reprinting Woody Wilson essays. Also references Coxey’s Army marching near the Mexican border and Rock Island finances with a 7.5 million note issue secured by mortgage deposits.
Gold bonds and by two amailer isanes of subsidiary companies. They are expected to provide for the company's needs until July 1, when it is hoped that the reorganization plan will have been arranged.
Waverly Democrat Meredith earns cautious support amid tax stance concerns. Connolly and Meredith vie for senate in a battleground climate as bull moose entries loom. Scranton Journal praises Governor Clarke yet calls for decisive Republican stance to back tax and capitol plans.
Dubuque Congressman Connolly seeks the Democratic nomination for U S Senate on June 2. He campaigned on loyalty to the president and supported tariff currency reform and canal tolls repeal. The piece argues repudiating Connolly equates to repudiating the administration and Wilson policies.
A disjointed humorous vignette follows a bald man leaving a barber, where the boss stresses the need for a convincing imagined parting and plastered hair to avoid losing a customer, while staff debate baldness and vanity. The scene shifts to a humorous exchange about a piano and a mouse, ending with a plan to distract a girl from piano study.
Black Hawk county voters are urged to consider Upton Kepford for state representative in the June primary and E Duke Naven for county treasurer subject to Republican primary on June 1 1914.
A campaign notice from Clayton E. Bronson and attorney H. E. Tullar of Waterloo Iowa announces Bronson as a Republican candidate for state representative pending the June primary. The text emphasizes party nomination and primary qualification.
Cedar Falls Record jokes about John W Rowley using an old Lydia Pinkham halftone and comments on his looks. Webster City Freeman-Tribune recalls a Des Moines editors meeting error where Sitting Bull’s photo ran under Al Swalm’s name in the old State Register, not noticed for days.
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