Evening Courier Schedules Biweekly Delivery Dates
Evening Courier announces tri weekly issues by mail outside city limits with editions on Monday Wednesday and Friday.
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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1913
Page
2
Evening Courier announces tri weekly issues by mail outside city limits with editions on Monday Wednesday and Friday.
The Courier offers continued delivery while readers are on summer trips. If subscribers send changes of address before leaving, the paper will be delivered promptly even with multiple address updates.
The piece blasts American residents in Mexico who push for recognition of Huerta and fear- or money-driven motives behind Ambassador Wilson. It argues the U S should avoid entangling troops or scorning justice, urging self reliance under the U S flag and restraint from intervention.
Physicians report 71 percent of city schoolchildren have defects with bad teeth most common at 42 percent. Treatments included 6507 dental procedures, 909 tonsil removals, 896 adenoids removed, 494 hearing treatments, 880 glasses, and 14 TB cases under care. Staffing rose from seven doctors and thirteen nurses to add two doctors and five nurses.
Spokane adopts arterial highway law to fix rough city boundary roads. City and county share costs for Sunset boulevard link estimated at 36 000 with property owners covering remaining up to about 26 000. Iowa towns may follow state action to cure similar road problems.
President Wilson faces a cabinet rift over beverage policy with Secretary Brean favoring grape juice, McAdoo a buttermilk enthusiast, and a push in Congress for a constitutional amendment on national prohibition. The piece notes court, tariff, and streetcar issues amid the era’s transport and drink debates.
Dr. Frank Crane argues intolerance stems from love and loyalty. He says passion and affection can distort judgment, turning zealotry into bigotry of affection. The piece likens religious strife to childishness and urges forbearance and forgiveness as love’s final lesson.
A collective reader letter and short items discuss a Clinton knocker behind bars, Waterloo pedestrian crossing plans, and western pavement methods. The Citizen urges safer, smoother crossings to aid mothers, children, and workers.
The publican party and its reactionary wing resist reorganization. If figures like the Barneses Penroses Cranes and Tafts keep control, the 1916 meeting will resemble 1912, since the party will deserve that outcome.
A humorous tale recounts Noah as a lifelong reformer who never wins votes beyond his family, builds a massive ark amid ridicule, secures alcohol free passage for animals, and ultimately governs the world after the flood, becoming famed as navigator and weather prophet.
A collage of brief lines and quips from 19th and early 20th century papers. It mixes jokes about gender roles in dialogue and comic exchanges about price and behavior with snippets on suffragettes and everyday life. The items reflect press humor and social commentary of the era.
A Washington Post dispatch from Mexico City notes John Lind, former Minnesota governor, is sent to press Huerta to resign, provoking panic among Americans. Mexicans mock Wilson and Bryan. Americans fear for their safety and some plan a multinational force to protect expatriates, challenging the Monroe Doctrine.
Des Moines Capital describes editor Joe Mitchell Chapple’s depature from Des Moines to La Porte City and Chicago area memories. He recalls early stage roles, the show Soldier of Fortune, and an anecdote with Pepper nickname from a youth years at the state fair and Union hall performances.
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