Community chorus boost for West High recital fuels civic spirit
The piece praises Gov Kendall for vetoing a two cent per gallon gasoline tax bill as flawed and costly. It argues Iowa highways need state led construction, warns the tax would not yield intended road money, and extols community singing as a unifying force while urging broader support for public music programs.
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Rendalt
Lowa Noods
Kendall
Banbtel Assembly
Jinn IL
House of Representatives
Towa
Iowa
West
High
West High
Community Chorus Plans Benefit Concert at West High
Tomorrow night the Waterloo community chorus and local soloists, fuels and quartets, present a varied program to raise funds for a grand piano for West High. A previous concert netted $500, applied toward half the cost, and another $500 is sought to complete the purchase. Proceeds from tomorrow’s show will go toward finishing the instrument’s payment.
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Waterloo
West High School
Folk
Old Age Is a State of Mind Says Dr Brady
Dr Brady argues aging is mental not physical, cites 1920 U.S. vital statistics showing fewer deaths blamed on old age, notes many centenarians deny late-life excesses, and urges readers to pursue health without fearing aging. Readers’ questions cover grapefruit safety and cold prevention with cautions against quinine.
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United States
Mies
J. Angwor
Jesus
Romeone
C. NM
Tobacco use and college performance cited at Simpson College
A Simpson College study in Indianola found 32 percent of freshmen used tobacco. Tobacco users scored about 76 while nonusers averaged around 84, implying tobacco may impair study performance. The piece questions tobacco’s perceived harms and urges caution and further analysis.
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Simpson College
Indianola
Friend Wife by Roe Fulkerson
Imogene and Andrew discuss a daily newspaper office romance and a hypothetical flirtation. She presses him for truth about another woman, while he deflects with humor and ambivalence amid marital insecurities and suspicions. The conversation pivots on trust, humor, and emotional risk.
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Imogene
Andres
Aftternoon
Andrew
Timogene
Aoman
Rural Motors Quieted By Rain For Healthier Soil
In damp conditions a couple of heavy rains ease sponginess that makes engines groan. The countryside sounds arise from germs in cats breaking through a thin shell that shields them from moist warm soil.
The Sandman Story by Mrs FLA Walker
A fairy tale begins with Princess Trina, beloved by her father the king, who faces a cruel stepmother Queen Cruella. An old witch appears in the garden and offers help for gold, prophesying Queen Cruella's rise and Trina's danger as the plot unfolds toward a looming palace upheaval.
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Sandman
Mrs. Fla. Walker
Towed Tran
Trina
Crucus
Cruella
The Rose and the Lilies Poem Fragment
A fragment from Frank L. Stanton titled The Rosh-Gift features lines about a red rose and lilies, with a lover’s invitation and imagery of devotion. The text includes dialect dialogue from an old colored deacon musing on toil and salvation and a humorous note about taking a vacation.
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Satan
The Princess Trima's Golden Hair Part I
An old witch transforms into a white bird and abducts a sleeping princess from her room. She seizes the princess by her hair and carries her away to a forest cave, then cuts the gold hair and entrusts a goblin to deliver the bundle to the queen to reveal the princess's capture.
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Criclla
Cruda
Trina
Trima
The Regeneration of Malcolm Starmount
In a melodrama of wealth and scandal Malcolm Starmount, a social lion, contends with a wild birthday party, a betrayed lover Nalda Courteney, and a vengeful foe Dick Tennant. Amid schemes and a dramatic confrontation, Starmount faces a reckoning over moneyed arrogance and intimate deceit.
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Malcolm Starmount
Mary Devlin
Nalda Courteney
Dick Tennant
Nalda
Courteney
Armownt
Starmount
Prise
Sannant
Flo
Hel
Tennant
Mulcahy
Ten- Frank
Mulcahr
Walda Courteney
Miss Courteney
Abe Martin Tipton headline fragment
Abe Martin Tipton story fragment notes Rich with a fake on his wife. She suspects his hearing loss is faked. The dialogue hints at dissatisfaction and a plea to prove oneself by walking without stumbling.
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Tipton
Rich
Burroughs Nature Notes Q and A Column Earlier Copy
The piece titles Burroughs Nature Notes by Moughton Mifflin from 1923 invites readers to submit questions about nature topics. It includes reader Qs about plant leaf toughness mollusks moving to new areas and whether canaries are used in mines, followed by answers in the next issue. It also details how cuckoos lay eggs and how beavers build lodges and sleeping shelves, plus celery tops bleaching to remove bitterness and Duck food habits in salt marshes.
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Jess
Brain Tests by Sam Loyd
Puzzle instruction asks to spell names of static objects then add and subtract per signs to yield the surname of a noted American soldier and statesman. It prompts to answer to yesterday’s puzzle as a teaser.
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