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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1915
Page
2
The Waterloo Evening Courier and Waterloo Reporter share wartime dispatches and humorous items. Bits cover Grodno events, anti war banter, road talk, jokes on marrying brains, and political quips about Tennessee Mississippi governors, Senate baths, and Cavendish-like reflections. Includes local ad rates and postal details.
A Welsh born writer now in Waterloo argues longer leases on Welsh farm rentals boost soil health and yields. He notes five year rotations better use Town land than one year leases that force frequent moves. The piece calls for owner renter collaboration to improve farms and national defense mobilization campaigns urge civilian participation and skill enlistment.
Pepper Talk urges consistent action beyond initial effort. The piece argues that periodic brilliance without follow up yields obscurity, while courage to start and sustain effort builds lasting achievement. It frames success as daily, well performed work followed up over time.
The Manson Democrat notes a northeast of town red school house replacing the worn old structure. The new brick style offers modern lighting, ventilation, and heating, while the old red label could become a local landmark. The piece blends observations on state fairs, county supervisors, and the Waterloo Dairy Cattle Congress, reflecting rural Iowa concerns from education to infrastructure and agriculture.
The piece stained by Ernst Jissauer stirred anger across nations, yet critics urged restraint and warning against feeding hatred. Leaders and papers condemned the poem as unpatriotic, advocating broader, humane grounds for wartime critique and honoring a shift toward cordial diplomacy.
A satirical essay traces politeness as social lubricant from ancient conflicts to modern etiquette. It argues politeness grows where trust is scarce yet fails among close kin and within nations, noting blunt honesty from loved ones and danger in overly polished speech.
Aggregated editorials discuss the Rainsbargers who, after 27 years in Iowa prisons, win freedom amid questions of innocence or guilt. They reflect on youth mistakes, the difficulty of starting anew, and the long arc of justice. The page also weighs public funds, road spending, and highway oversight versus bonds for hard roads.
Folsom Cal August 27 Frank Greeks a convict was hanged today for the murder of Captain JT P Drewry and guard FL during a prison break last October He had been in collapse for two days Greeks faced a death sentence later commuted to life imprisonment in wake of the incident
Nellie follows the urge to peek into others affairs and is punished by a tumble into Busybody land where everyone has long purple noses. She learns the harm of nosiness, helplessly wanders the strange world, then awakens back home grateful to stay out of others business.
A wife’s solo retreat leaves her rested with a fresh view of motherhood and marriage. She returns eager for her children while her husband gains insight from caring for them. Their two week beach and woods trip proves an unusual but rewarding family experiment in Waterloo, spreading via local Want Ad reach.
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