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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1913
Page
2
Waterloo Courier announces twiceweekly publication with Norman Hartman as editor and Alfred Lukens as manager. Foreign distribution lists Paris venue and Europe offices, with rate details and advertising policies.
The Courier promotes summer vacation delivery service for subscribers. Readers traveling this summer can have the paper mailed to new addresses with prompt delivery and no missed issues, with changes handled as needed.
The Old Settlers association recalls Waterloo’s early life with fond detail. They praise simple, wholesome times, describe primitive streets, one-room meeting houses, and prairie prosperity. The piece laments lost elders and hopes rising generations honor memory and tradition.
A Waterloo reader argues civic pride should match commercial ambition. The piece urges sowing seeds of pride, building cleaner streets, better yards, and organized progress while reflecting on opinions about education, politics, and urban development. It blends satire and aspiration with local concerns and references a looming city paving effort.
A historical reflection urges weekly church attendance as gratitude for divine aid after disasters. It contrasts public worship in calm times with scarce attendance during crises, and questions the duty to thank God for daily provisions and ongoing mercy.
A brief passage centers on a child’s simple plea of “Only me,” contrasting a small girl with grand figures like emperors, presidents, and stars. The poem elevates the child's presence above power and wealth, ending with a tender image of the child scattering papers and taking the speaker’s heart.
A mosaic of Iowa-news captions notes shifting conditions. hogs cattle whisky prices hold steady. Joe Bailey and James Wilson drift within Republican politics. preachers joke about baseball between hymns. concerns rise about Iowa primaries. seven lean years give way to hope for seven fat years. Iowa towns respond to commercial trends.
A humorous essay on pride explores how men and women handle self regard, from refusing help and charity to the dangers of arrogance. It argues pride can motivate or ruin, warning that wounded pride causes pain while a self mockery reduces harm.
A collage of chuckles and quotes lists jokes from Chicago to St Paul while a Waterloo reader berates costly street repair. The letter from 3. W. Hough of 22 West Fourth criticizes tearing up good asphalt for expedient repaving funded by abutting property owners amid street car work and heavy traffic.
A letter to the editor argues against delaying the West Fourth street repaving from Washington to Locust. The writer says the current brick pavement is solid and durable, superior for heavy traffic and easier to repair than asphalt, citing a July incident where a loaded wagon sank in soft asphalt and could not move.
Bible students learn the Sea of Galilee still yields rich fishing. Dr Ernest W Gurney Masterman reports in a book that 43 fish varieties are found there, double the British Isles. Local fishermen pay a fifth of catch value, with revenue shared by the sultan and a Damascus pasha.
An advertisement touts S. S. S. as a cure for lupus a skin disease described as destructive to skin glands. It claims the blood impurities cause lupus and that the Swift Specific Co. offers a botanical remedy with no minerals or drugs. The notice urges readers to seek medical advice from the company's Medical Department in Atlanta Georgia.
Woman credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing nervous fatigue and digestive troubles and aiding a healthy birth. She says she lost a previous child but now enjoys a healthy baby and happy home. The advertisement invites women to write for confidential advice from Lydia Pinkham Co.
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