Wateroo Evening Courier Classified Rates and Notices
Opulent 1930s style notice details annual subscription prices, carrier and mail rates, post office rules, and advertising policies. It notes leased wires, AP and UP International News, and mentions new money-order conventions with several nations. The piece also discusses regulatory recommendations affecting postmasters, overtime pay, night differentials, and post office administration.
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Ho Hartman Co
Courier Ride
Corner Park Ave
Commercial St
Semenep
Waterlog
Iowa
Associated Press
United Press International News
New York
Palladelphia
Chicago
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Story
Brooks & Filler
Representa Area
Annual Post Office Report Highlights Growth And Reforms
The annual report to the president shows improved efficiency, expanded coverage, and recommendations for service improvements. Revenue rose 7.53 percent year over year, deficits narrowed, and operating costs remain just 4.25 percent above revenue. Highlights include expanded rural routes, government-owned mail service savings, in-house bag production, and increased foreign sea-post efficiency. Parcel post to Christmas Island and growing postal savings marks also noted.
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Postoffice Department
American ships and the merchant marine revival
The United States shipping board urges tax exemptions on earnings from American shipping and profits from selling American vessels if reinvested in new ships, plus laws to bar preferential rail contracts with foreign carriers. The piece also notes a rising stock bull market, with Chicago markets moving on new cotton quotations and a cotton exchange opening, as Southwestern growers anticipate a stronger Chicago cotton Market.
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United States Shipping Board
Chicago Board of Trade
Chicago
Touriug With a Tractor in Iowa Driver Satire
Fairfield Ledger imagines a travels by tractor as a humorous, satirical antidote to car culture. The piece envisions a five ton touring tractor risking collisions, snow plows, and ditching careless motorists while joking about confrontations with errant drivers and woman drivers on narrow bridges.
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Fairfield Ledger
X ray diagnostics debated by Dr Brady in health column
Dr Brady warns that x ray tests mislead many patients and creditors of care when used without physician guidance. He cites cases of unnecessary surgeries and stresses the clinician’s role in integrating findings with history. Readers are invited to send questions to Brady for possible publication.
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Charla‘ Tung
Cinelnnatt
Ranort
Dr. Brady
William Brady
FRIEND WIFE BY ROH FULKERSON
A serialized domestic scene follows Imogene's illness and her husband Andrew as he plans to stay by her side. She insists he go to work while she recovers, listing meals and care she does not want, and she warns hospitalization if he overdoes his nursing.
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Imogene
Andrew
Imogena
Edna
Tam
The Flower of the Family melodrama unfolds at a club
Lenore and Marta witness Marta's sister Marta at a club with Gordon Fresher a wealthy suitor. Marta resists but Gordon pressures and a luncheon in a dim room leads to uneasy tension and flirtation as family and social gossip swirl.
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Lenois Ralston
Rafe Salterly
Gordon Fresher
Lenore
Gordon
Marta
Ralston
Kent Summers
Norris
Dad
Gordon Biesher
Marti
Lelearet
Rafe
Uncle Wiggily and the Rubber Boots Hijinks
Uncle Wiggily cleans his rubber boots as Nurse Jane warns of snow. Bob Cat hides inside a boot to steal ears, but Uncle Butter mistakes the boots for umbrella stands and jams the umbrella into the boot, exposing the plot. Boots prove to be the hiding spot and the prank backfires.
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Janet
Jane
Nurse Jane
Little Bob Cat
Bob Cat
Uncle Wiggily
Rabbit &Entleman
Little Bob
Big Bot Cat
Uncle Wigily
Uncle Butter
Uncle Wig- Billy
Uncle Butler
Wiggily
Bob
Uncle Wigerly
Probert Stand
Uncle Buter
Sute
Jack
Abe Martin Couple Reunites After Trial Separation
A column note reports Abe Martin Late Bud and his wife have reconciled after a period of separation. The item mentions one day a week for independent action and remarks on a wife’s smile at a traffic cop as a humorous aside.
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Bud
Movie Plot Episode Involving Nurse Visit
A chaotic scene unfolds as Andrew feigns greater illness to justify calling a trained nurse while Imogene resists, insisting she can care for him at home. Andrew withdraws, seeking privacy as Imogene argues for rest. The dialogue centers on who should provide care and the comedic tension of overreacting characters.
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Egypiss Blaisdellt
Gordon Flesher
Marta
Miss Blaisdell
Dad
Veda Storm
Gordon
Altho
Storm
Nim
Sid Gordon
Mr. Plesher
George
Papa
Childien
Andrew
Imogene
Burroughs Nature Club Notes from 1923
The column invites readers to submit questions about nature subjects to the Nature Notes Dept. Answers will appear in this column, with the Burroughs Nature Club context provided by Houghton Miff lin Co. Copyright 1923.
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Burroughs Nature Club
Houghton Mifflin Co
Nature Notes
Brain Tests by Sam Loud
A short word puzzle asks solvers to transform a pair by subtracting an Oriental plant adding a bird subtracting a tin container and adding a meadow to form a U S state name. Yesterday's answer notes Farmer Jones started with 219 Tissons and earned 55 dollars in the end.
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United States
Farmer Jones
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