ENGLAND SETS A FAST PAC K British bond drive raises five billion pounds in four years
England closed another war loan campaign with subscriptions totaling five billion pounds. The piece notes about one third of Britain’s population bought bonds, averaging $125 per person or $625 per family of five. It contrasts Britain’s four years of war with America’s year and a half, highlighting the pace set for Americans to match such borrowing. The article also critiques liquor interests, rails against prohibition debates, and humorously imagines the public’s reform efforts tied to Liberty bonds and thrift stamps while touching on war-time civic issues and a president’s Boston auto trip.
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Iowa
Minnesota
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Black Hawk County
Waterloo
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Tuich
Louisville
T. M. Gilmore
Waterloo News Paper Plan Sparks Local Debate
Iowa editors report Waterloo draft board says a daily paper for the city is not essential and a monthly semi weekly could serve Waterloo. Church notices and lodge notices could move to post office boards, amid calls for local reporting.
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Waterloo- Cedar Rapids
Waterloo
Post Office
Understanding bladder inflammation and its treatment in historical context
This article discusses bladder inflammation, its causes, progression, and historical treatment approaches. It notes difficulties in diagnosis and treatment, the role of instrumentation, and the shift toward cystoscopy and urine analysis. It also mentions causes such as infections, trauma, cold exposure, and certain drugs, and emphasizes consulting a physician skilled in cystoscopy.
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Nudlder Hut
Side Talks on a Difficult Cousin and Self Pity
A friend explains dislike for a cousin who constantly complains and provokes discomfort. The writer notes the cousin Edith mocks festivities, shows little care for others, and embodies self pity. The piece contrasts fretful, egotistical whining with social annoyance and ends with the realization of mutual unease.
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Judith
The Sandman Story and War Chronicle Highlights
A mixed page notes Aug 21 1917 Verdun gains and Aug 21 1916 Saloniki landings, with a humorous tale Fishing with a Grenade about an American rookie who harms a barge, earns a medal, and a toy narrative Worsted Peter Run. The entry blends war briefs, a Scribner’s magazine anecdote, and children’s fiction fragments.
Fifty Years Ago In The Courier Aug 20 1868
A Nug line from The Courier notes the Tanners Republican club in Lincoln hall with regular drills and a music club being formed. It records the Cedar Falls couple Robert Wright and Miss Anna E. Carson marrying August 13 by Rev. Uriah Eberhart. Also mentions land cultivation in Grundy County, a menagerie near Waterloo, and St Marks church construction with John Wyeming leading workers. Leavitt and Lusch banking upgrades are described with reversed counters and expanded facilities.
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Tanners
Lincoln Hall
Robert Wright
Anna E. Carson
Cedar Falls
Uriah Eberhart
Democratic Club
Waterloo
Grundy
St. Mark's Church
John
Wyeming
Forty Years Ago Aug 21 1878 Waterloo items
Nineteenth century news brief notes Thomas Updegraff wins nomination at 5 16 am on the 326th ballot for congress with 68 9 percent. Elwell dies from injuries after hog sorting accident. Choate burned at Harbin Co drug store. Kate Parrott dies at 11 days. Gas lamp posts installed city wide cautioning use as hitching posts. A French Chicago man holds four Gilbertville lots for years and resists $20 offer. Main Street and Park Avenue narrowed. fences moved, sidewalks laid, street filling. Addie Wangerford trained in Grinnell German now offers lessons. Twenty five carriages escort Davis Vail’s visitors to his 400 acre farm home eight miles northeast.
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Presbyterian Church
Davis Vail
Twenty Years Ago Monday Aug 22 1808 Local notes and births
A fragment of a local column recalls events from August 22 1808. Mentions visits to the Harvey home on Vine Street for a birthday, a carload of machinery reaching for a cobpipe factory, a birth announced for Jono Cordes, and fishing lessons from Judge F C Platt. Also notes a monument plan in Paris for Lafayette funded by American schoolchildren, fire damage to Michael Gasser’s livery barn, a marriage license for Lewis T Vogt and Cora I Call, and trips by EB L and H B Boies to Niagara Falls.
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Erick
J. P. Ming
J. O. Trumbauer
Bessie Harvey
W. Heiple
J.T. Rock
L. H. Harvey
C. H. Bingham
Vine 19
S. S. S. Blood Remedy Promoted as Purely Vegetable Cure
An advertisement extols S. S. S. as a safe, purely vegetable blood treatment made from roots, herbs, and barks. It claims to cleanse the entire system, cure rheumatism, catarrh, scrofula, sores, ulcers, and blood disorders, and offers a medical director's address in Atlanta for peculiar cases.
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S.S. S
S. S
Swift Laboratory
Atlanta
Testaments for Soldiers Printed for Army and Navy
Two million pocket size New Testaments with water resistant covers are being printed by the MC A for army and navy distribution. The navy edition will be bound in blue while the army edition will be green.
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MC. A
Army
Navy
Thin people urged to use nitro phosphate for weight gain
An old advertisement touts nitro phosphate as the cure for thinness and weak nerves. It claims the product feeds nerves and cells to add flesh, improve energy and health, with notes on quick weight gain and brighter eyes. Cautions that it should be used only by those desiring flesh.
Chicago Specialist Dr Shallenberger Promises Cure All Chronic Diseases
Dr Wilbert Shallenberger, a Chicago specialist, offers visits daily from 8 am to 8 pm and claims to rapidly diagnose and treat chronic diseases of men and women. He lists cures for eye, ear, throat, lung, heart, liver, stomach, and nerve ailments and advertises nonoperative cures for fissure and fistula. He stresses reputation, scientific methods, and home-made medicines, inviting letters for verification and noting an upcoming appearance in Waterloo at Hotel Russell-Lamson on August 14.
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Russell-Lamson
Shallenberger
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Shalienberger
Ife
Wilbert Shallenberger
C. Hi. Roble
Blairsburg
Iowa
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