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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1919
Page
2
A Waterloo newspaper sketches the state of organized labor amid strikes and internal discipline, warns against agitation, and urges conservative leadership. It contrasts European policy with American actions, critiques inflation, and discusses wage dynamics, food price concerns, and President Wilson’s looming tour.
Health Talks by John B Huber discusses whooping cough spread, incubation, and the three illness stages. It notes direct contact and fomites as transmission, droplet precautions, and cautions about worry. The column invites health questions and explains benign adenoid removal considerations in adults and children.
Andrew and Imogene navigate a department store buy six yards of black silk for Mrs. Vanderbilt’s birthday. Misreadings and social friction surface as they argue over price and fit, with a bemused saleswoman and a comic miscommunication about sandwiches and rubber boots.
Gus, oldest of cobbler’s twelve, travels to a forest giant’s castle to seek work. He frees prisoners, overthrows the giant by coffee poisoning, and with liberated men shares loot from the dungeon. A grateful prisoner offers gems, and three horsemen ride away with gold to bless Gus’s family.
Iowa editors flag a disclosure accusing Democratic control of railroads of distributing more than 10000 free passes. Pass holders include William Gibbs McAdoo and the president's daughter. The figure may explain rail deficit while provoking suspicion across newspapers.
Trade reports France ends its import ban, Britain allows 6000 motor cars in, and U S automakers eye capacity production for the next year or two. East Asia offers potential markets, while prices are unlikely to fall soon. The Amsterdam skyline is dominated by a famous canal halt built on piles of timber.
A garbled prompt presents a poetic puzzle about a railroad boiler tinker and a clerk, with odd phrases on wages and appearance, plus a cipher style instruction and a crowded, unclear route through a tower. It reads like a test page with copyright notices from 1919.
Postwar auto market shows prices rising as production fails to rebound. Labor and material costs stay high, car shortages grow, and makers plan possible further price hikes. Foreign demand remains strong while France and England curb imports to protect domestic plants.
An advertisement features Dr Connor of Johns Hopkins warning that nicotine poisons thousands of men with fatal diseases. It promotes Nicotol tablets as a simple remedy and promises refunds if not effective, with a larger Carter Connor announcement to follow in this paper.
A sales pitch claims Freezone relieves corn and callus pain with a few drops from a tiny bottle. It promises painless removal of hard or soft corns and toe calluses, claiming the skin tears away rooted, with minimal cost and no soreness.
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