Waterlo o Evening Courier front matter and policy notes
Front matter shows newspaper masthead Waterloo Evening Courier with publisher W. H. Hartman Co and editors John G. Hartman and Shacksen McCoy, plus circulation and advertising policy details. Regional office listings and agency representatives are noted for New York Philadelphia Chicago Los Angeles San Francisco.
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Story, Broncs & Finley, Representatives
Local Taxing Bodies Review Reveals Soaring Local Taxes
The finance department of the Chamber of Commerce ranks local taxation as a key business factor in a new survey. It notes $4 trillion in annual local revenue and a per capita $34. 500000 local units drive school road and utility funding with bonded debt rising from $2.9 billion in 1913 to $8.66 billion in 1925.
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Finance Department
Chamber of Commerce of the United States
United States
National Chamber of Commerce
Hoover defended for food program amid campaign charges
The column argues Hoover cannot be blamed for profiteering in other sectors, noting his scope limited to food administration. It cites Sherman P. Houston praising Hoover for aiding farmers against price suppression and fixing hog and cattle prices, while highlighting his wartime role and inland waterways support.
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Kansas City Star
Sherman P. Houston
Joint
Allied Buying Commission
Commerce Secretary
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Herbert Hoover
Bonds For Candidates And University Dating Reform
An editorial discusses political candidate deposits to deter unqualified runners and proposals for municipal deposits. It also critiques a Northwestern university dating idea, noting practical issues with charging the date payer and questions the logic of paying for social outings. The piece blends political finance reform with campus social experiments.
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Puto
Northwestern University
Mary
Swift
Personal Health Service by Dr. William Brady
Dr. Brady offers health advice in a column using humorous anecdotes about Washington and boyhood tales to frame medical guidance. The piece covers milk safety from tuberculin-tested cows, pasteurization or boiling of milk from untested cows, and cautions about raw milk for children. It includes readers’ questions on hygiene, school health instruction, indoor footwear, and safe hair washing, with a call for stamped, self-addressed envelopes for personal letters.
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J. Weems
Washington
George
Father
Mir. Washington
Sinclair
Peter
Paul
Ohio
Grandma’s
Grandma's
Tam
Fogles
Childrein
E. C. Ink
Barnum
Brady
William Brady
Bad Fruit of Good Ideas by Glenn Prank President at University
The piece critiques E L Thorndike's research on adult learning, warning that schooling reforms may misapply findings and harm students. It argues for educational reconstruction over social controls, noting potential misuse and urging careful, non-punitive approaches to learning.
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Glenn Prank
University of Wisconsin
Star of the Century
Tre McClure
E. L. Thorndike
Thorndike
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Mtr Tharmike
Uncle Wiggily in the Coal Hole clash with Fuzzy Fox
In a cheeky duel, Uncle Wiggily defends his grounds as the hungry Fuzzy Fox vows to bite him. The rabbit gentleman scatters peppered grass seed from a bag to blind the foe, repeating a tactic used against Little Fox previously.
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Wiggily
the Fox
Uncle Wiggily
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Little Fox
Puzzle signs reveal hidden birds in Uncle Wigerly tale
In the story Bunny and Big Fox quarrel over a puzzle. Uncle Wigerly flips signs to reveal answers on the back, showing a B with an insect and a J with a Blue Jay, guiding the game.
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Big Fox
Wigerly
New York by Day by Day on Collecting Oddities
A quirky New York feature notes loneliness driving collecting across professions. Insides cover cigaret art, discarded wooden signs, rare tabloids, first editions, shaving brushes, and Roy details. Prohibition spurred liquor bottle collections, with bootleggers scaling prices. Broadway etiquette, Sophie Tucker, and tough first-night crowds in Cincinnati and Boston close the vivid snapshot.
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New York
Lillian Russell
Cigar Store
New York Public Library
Peaches Browning
Prince Charming
Snyder-Gray
Ruth
Hindoe
Bowery
Prince of Wales
Upper Broadway
Cincinnati
Boston
Blackfellows of Australia Use Boomerangs in War and Hunt
Uncle Ray describes Australian Aboriginal tribes, their bowless tool use, including boomerangs and spears. Battles involve three fighters per side with wooden swords and shields, often ending quickly with few injuries. The author praises their bloodless tactics relative to white wars, then notes tomorrow’s column on boats and canoes.
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Wah
Australia
Blackfellows
Ray
Uncle Wiggily and the Coal Hole Mystery
Uncle Wiggily, Bunty, and Lady Mouse Teacher search Hollow Stump School after a coal hole noise. Wiggily solves a chalk puzzle drawn on coal dust, promising more tomorrow. The scene ends with a tease about future adventures and a Kansas City Star note on new fortunes from General Motors.
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Bunty
Uncle
Winkie Wig
Hollow Stump
Mr. Long- Ears
Wiggily
Mr. Lorgears
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Uncle Wigerly
Kansas City Star
General Motors
Abe Martin on bats and the weaker sex
Abe Martin jokes that people overestimate a baseball bat’s usefulness for another season. He muses on why women are still called the weaker sex unless it’s for their habit of urging men to spade the flower beds.
Burroughs Nature Club Notes Answers Preview
Burroughs Nature Club notes from 1928 invite reader questions on nature topics. The column promises answers in the next issue and recounts prior Q and A on salmon upstream migrations and a glass awake creature, noting spelling and OCR quirks.
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Burroughs Nature Club
Holghton Wuiepuln
Fifty Years Ago In Phy Courier April 24 1878
Notes from the Phy Courier dated April 24 1878 report twin sons born to Dr and Mrs Knox, future medical prospects, James L Husted admitted to the Iowa bar on April 17 and later becoming a district judge, Waterloo overrun with tramps, recent rains boosting vegetation, J P Evans weather observations noting the past winter snow of 15 inches as the lightest on his record, a very warm winter, and a cold January low of 4 below zero. Frank Brothers clothiers advertise pants made to order for 4 dollars.
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Knox
James L. Husted
Iowa
Husted
J. PB. Evans
Local notes from Cedar Falls 1888 update on residents
Cadence of short notices from Cedar Falls dated April 25 1888 reports Capt H E Williams selling his home to Lou G Parrott and planning to move to Cedar Falls, a mourning flag over Mullan block for Senator Roscoe Conkling, James D Place returning from California improved, Uncle Jim at the throttle in 1855 Dunleith East Dubuque train, Inman buys Fourth street meat market, St Mark’s Episcopal Easter decor and crowded church, fire damages upper Mrs E D Hayden residence, complaints to fire crew over helping move engines, sprouting potatoes proof of mild winter, ironworker builds a violin from East Waterloo wood in 1860, Roger Leavitt resigns bank post to join Ocdear Falls, R G Young sells east school residence for 2200, thermometer at freezing point, Mrs H L Shutts teaching cooking art, first Iowa violin made by Carr, crafts class in Independence next week.
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Mullan
Roscoe Conkling
New York
Neserenee James D. Place
Ilinois
California
Uncle Jim
Dunlleth
East Dubuque
Sine Shnee Glark Inman
Fourth Street West
Thurston & Thurston
H. L. Shutts
Pfau
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Iowa
Datek Carr
Black Hawk
Independence
Prosecution halted as witness doubts Steinhagen identity
In Waterloo in 1908 the case against Edward and Louis Steinhagen for shooting butcher Fred A. Snyder during a robbery attempt stalled when the prosecuting witness asked to drop charges after seeing a man resembling his shooter. County Attorney Tey Mears and aide A. B. Lovejoy were taken by surprise as the trial paused. Also noted: a buggy accident injuring Thomas McElhinney, a tuberculosis lecturer to visit Waterloo May 7–15, and a school garden dedication at Fourth and Baltimore with community figures speaking. several local mothers and students named in West High commencement plans.
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Edward and
Louis Steinhagen
Fred A. Snyder
Butcher
Steinhagens
Tey Mears
A. B. Lovejoy
Snakes and Birds in Odd Animal Truths
A fragment discusses the Blass snake and tail regeneration, debunks old myths of birds carrying their young, notes aquatic birds riding their young on water, and cites New Orleans Times-Picayune about a Louisiana representative proposing game and fish measures alongside a joke soup and fish prohibition bill. It also mentions a Jefferson Wier forecast of a unique campaign ending party lines and a Philadelphia Inquirer quip about war ace versus golf.
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