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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1919
Page
2
Waterloo daily paper lists advertising policies and postal details while editorial pages attack unethical legal practices in Indianapolis, urge bar cleansing, and note English observers’ indifference to American race issues. It observes truck fuel ideas, fur trade profits, and a call for sane conduct.
Iowa editors report on a Muscatine girl dying after leaping from a fast moving automobile owned by two prominent wealthy young men who cannot explain her motive. The dispatch recalls a similar highway leap by another girl with wealthier company, while one case lacks prosecution prospects.
The piece urges policies to halt rural decay by investing in roads and country schools, aiming for parity with city facilities. It cites Wisconsin and other states as exemplars and argues rural prosperity requires new approaches, including shifting farm incentives toward food production.
A chemical explosion at 27 Monroe Street Passaic New Jersey killed druggist Henry Balson 36. He entered the cellar to mix medicines when a report and flame followed by yellow smoke issued from the hallway. About 25 women and children escaped over the roof as fire consumed alcohol chloroform and other basement chemicals.
A health column by Dr. John B. Huber discusses home fly and mosquito control through high mesh screenings, proper door and window screening, and careful door construction. It covers material choices, painting to prevent oxidation, adjustments for hot weather, and practical tips to mosquito proof living spaces. The piece also notes reader questions about infant constipation and birthmarks, with medical guidance mailed upon request.
A夫Andrew explains to Imogene the concept of taxation without representation as the core cause of the American Revolution. He argues no people should be taxed without a voice in laws and notes the rightful struggle of the era. Imogene probes if property and rights for women mirror male burdens under law. Copyright Twenty-first Century Press Inc.
Mrs. F. A. Walker recounts The Sandman Story in which Princess Ray selects a suitor at a birthday feast. A plain grub worm earns an invitation by saving the princess across a pool, yet doubt and ugliness shadow his joy as the gala unfolds with gleaming insects and a hidden fate.
The grub transforms into a butterfly with shimmering gold wings as the Petacene eyes praise its noble heart. The princess vows to marry the grub turned butterfly, recounting a love that began while it was a grub and the bond now blessed in marriage.
Portland letters report Prof Porty forecasting a cataclysm in December 1319 driven by a rare six-planet alignment Mercury Mars Venus Jupiter Saturn Neptune in conjunction with Halley’s Comet. He warns of hurricanes, floods and earthquakes weeks later as Earth's axis rotation remains unchanged over centuries while comets may cross planetary orbits.
New York Lieut Granville W Carkin a former Cornell athlete who had returned from overseas service in January drowned in the Royalton river near New Brunswick New Jersey when the canoe with friend Howard Garrison went over the Three Mile dam falls. The river was swollen with a swift current Garrison swam ashore but both men failed to grasp the danger.
A Washington Geographic Society bulletin draws a parallel between Ancient Thrace and modern self determination disputes. It notes Greek expansion along Thrace’s coast and shifting control from Thracians to Greeks, Romans, and Turks, with Thrace’s changing borders through history.
Sedalia Mo. Jacob Hunt er, colored, 102, father of twenty three children, claims the distinction of being the oldest man in central Missouri.
In a Sam Loyd brain teaser from 1915 a paperhanger and painter bid jointly for tasks at 1000 dollars, the plumber and painter at 1700, plumber and electrician at 1100, electrician and carpenter at 3200, carpenter and mason at 5300, mason and paperhanger at 2500. The paperhanger charges two thirds of the electrician. Determine each single task cost. Also note Lucy's athletic club ages range from 13 to 17 with Lucy at 15.
Miss Fanny Mopps claimed the heavy wool underskirt prize at the Baptist picnic for being the most barely dressed in town. The quip about the man who once watched himself get pickled hints at joking hall of mirrors reflections in local headlines.
Sixteen of Hunter's children are living. Hunter was born April 1, 1817, and was a slave until after the Civil war.
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