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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1913
Page
2
Fragmented OCR lists printing details and offices for Waterloo Evening Courier. Mentions rates, branch exchanges, travel offices in Europe and various city addresses, with scattered names and generic notices. Contains ads and promotional lines about subscription prices and special rates, plus several partial locations in Europe and America.
The Courier 6 advises readers planning summer trips to provide a forwarding address so they receive the paper promptly during their vacation. It promises careful handling of address changes and notes the paper will be sent to the new location as needed.
A man in New York ate eight and three quarters pounds of beefsteak to win a blue ribbon. Rivals consumed five to eight pounds each and retired to the sty. The piece muses on the waste and wonders what a feast would be if sixty neighbors shared half a pound each.
Great Britain Germany Russia and Austria-Hungary decline to attend the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition as a result of expense and policy disputes. Britain cites canal tolls. Germany links absence to English rivalries. Russia objects to treaty issues. Austria-Hungary balks at cost. Observers note fairs tire public interest and risk becoming a nuisance amid mounting expenditures.
A garbled critique arguing that peacetime alliances and world expos overemphasize alliances with foreign nations. It attacks leaders like Castro, claiming he should be confined for fomenting revolution and lampoons US relations with Central and South American republics while urging kept cordial ties.
A Los Angeles court ruled a reckless motorist who ran down a woman must pay her $30 per month plus hospital bills, avoiding jail so long as he provides support. The article notes Chicago cases where speeders were convicted of murder for pedestrian deaths.
A New York boy nearly died after inhaling gas but revived when his father gave a firm spanking. The item also notes Emmeline Pankhurst nearing death, Illinois women denied jury service, and various curious musings on Wilson, a Minneapolis welfare department, Anna Weld in London, and local smoking issues.
Moviro’s greatest crop prospects show productive potential while Des Moines capital rails against rising costs. Mason City centers push railroad coverage for bricks, tiles, cement, silos and packing houses as growers seek protection amid Midwest shortages. Sioux City Tribune reports latest estimates point to a corn crop shortfall of about ta or bushels, fueling rising prices and market expectations.
A reflective essay on civic virtue and moral responsibility argues that liberty, religion, and civil rights were bought at great cost. It urges a renewed conscience and personal debt repayment through future enrichment of the inheritance, citing Emerson, Morley, and a creed of truth, religion, liberty, and law.
The shortage of the crop likely will be compensated by an increase in price paid to the grower. The law of supply and demand will protect him if the jury is not packed against him.
A compilation of Iowa newspaper opinions on tariffs, state revenue, county fair oversight, and family health education. Notes Wisconsin and Des Moines posturing on tariff aims, fair food vendor monitoring, and home economics lessons for baby care. Calls for medical input at farmers’ institutes and improved sanitation and health practices.
The text urges equal attention to childrearing and home health alongside stock raising, advocating broad public education on domestic welfare and wellness for all families. It stresses practical guidance to keep households healthy and productive.
A mix of humorous quips from several papers, poking at manners, theater life, and everyday foibles. Jests touch on ball games, romance, stage psychology, and the pace of work, with light critiques of human nature and social behavior.
A slyly humorous overview of Tacoma Washington, portraying it as a volatile, ever-rising rival to Seattle and Portland. The piece exaggerates Tacoma's geography, growth, and transport links, notes its commission government and recall clause, and mockingly imagines a future population battle with Seattle. It targets readers with vivid, period-voice color and local bravado.
The text argues most so called feminine traits are common human traits found in men too. It rejects myths of inherent female weakness or superiority, attributing judgments to custom and environment and noting male philosophers often miscredit women. It ends by noting many men resemble women in behavior.
The article notes 44 of 55 U S and Canada prisons report schools with civilian head teachers in some cases. It highlights 27 evening, 19 day, and 8 correspondence programs teaching academic and trade subjects and stresses the role of prison libraries and book quality in character formation. Dr Hill urges broader public investment in education to aid neglected children and reduce moral degeneration.
Concrete inclines carpeted with cork replace steps and stairways in the new school house at Edwardsville, Pa. The note outlines finishing details and safety considerations for the campus structure.
Munford Alabama resident Mrs F P Mullendore recalls weakness during the Change of Life and says her husband nailed rubber on all gates to help her pass. She credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for improving backache fullness and stomach issues and urges others to try the product. The ad proclaims the medicinal value of the root and herb formula originated by Lydia E Pinkham to aid female illness and offers confidential correspondence from a woman at Lynn Massachusetts.
The Virginia county has raised over 6000 dollars for schools in the past year. Letters from 26 foreign countries reach New York school children via a exchange run by school authorities. Missouri classrooms adopt home industrial subjects with marks by Mrs Mary DeGarmo. At State College Puyallup girls cut lunch costs to 4 to 5 cents per person and will teach rural schools about food economy.
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