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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1921
Page
3
A sprawling column on publishing details, ethics in art, tariff debates, sugar trade impacts on Cuba and Louisiana, and civic chatter. It mixes editorials with anecdotes on stamps, railroading, and fashion trends, citing Henry Ford, General Dawes, and local figures.
Poor Kish notes that heredity environment and function govern health with emphasis on environment plus human will to improve living conditions. Advocates moving to a country home for healthier life, cites field of questions about snakes in Laurentian mountains.
Imogene uses a telephone prank to quiz her friend Julia about three visitors and misdirects Andrew with sly commentary. The comic exchange features spurious transmissions and a club chat, ending with Andrew listening unnoticed as Imogene smiles.
Ruth Cameron examines fear as a normal nerve stimulant in sports and daily activity. She discusses how moderate nerve stimulation enhances thrill in sailing, skiing, driving, and even matrimonial quarrels, urging moderation to avoid overstimulation and harm.
Poem praising the labor of loving hands as holy and fruitful. The speaker contrasts toil with reward, urging steadfast service to love and God, and promising heavenly reward for humble, diligent work.
A vivid line warns that workers must start promptly and deliver water to Mother Earth and her thirsty children. The piece emphasizes the anger that follows failure to provide this essential resource.
A page from 1921 Burroughs Nature Club Notes offers Q A on wild animals and nature topics. It discusses cat-tail starch in indigenous diets, raccoons in captivity, fur farms, and common hawk species seen at night, explaining their beneficial role and correcting myths.
Rain clouds hide on a mountain cause drought as Mother Earth pleads for water. Warm Breeze and Brisk Breeze relay messages to Thunder and Lightning who round up the rain clouds. Rain falls, quenching thirst and reviving Earth and its children.
I propose that we take a ride. We shall let him go. We leave that to your judgment. He secured the indebtedness on his house by mortgaging it. He insured his house against me.
The Wisconsin attorney general reiterated that the public may walk along lake fronts with no exclusive owner rights. Even at private shorelines like Lake Geneva the public can access edge of the water up to the high water mark. This ruling could influence Iowa lake access and the state park movement.
Readers solve a fill in the blanks puzzle using words shared across sentences. The page includes a brain teaser with a single answer derived from algebraic style clues and a word chain ending with ATHENS.
The column humorously critiques the Wilson era policy of watchfulness and expansion to include the ice cream social, noting how criminals justify actions by blaming society.
The Carroll Herald notes 10 to 15 cents a bushel grain rates with tongue in cheek critique. The Iowa City Citizen mentions Illinois while the piece trails into a strident mockery of women with eyebrow mustaches and related bravado.
Squeeze juice of two lemons into three ounces of Orthard White from any drug store to make a quarter pint lemon bleach. Massage daily on face neck arms and hands for a beauty whitening effect. Promises a soft clear rosy white skin and freckles sun tans and tan bleach.
A dated remark accuses rivals of discarding Towden and government reformers. The speaker contends the move harmed the system and suggests the consequences were deserved for social or political failures. The line hints at a political clash and public accountability.
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