PRESIDENTS MESSAGE AND MICHIGAN SENATOR NEWBERRY CASE
The paper reviews President Wilson's congressional message focusing on labor, unions, and war-time policy, and comments on the Newberry corruption indictment. It notes Wilson's emphasis on fair labor relations and warns against sweeping strikes while stressing evidence-based judgment. It questions election fairness across states and hints at political motives surrounding Ford's opposition. It ends with reflections on the farmer's resilience amid coal strikes and potential migration to rural life.
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Michigan
United States
Newberry
Mr. Newberry
Henry Ford
Ford
Senator Newberry
Mason and Dixon
Senate
Instrument of Reform in America Is Straight Road of Justice
President Wilson declares in his congressional message that the old wage and industry standards are unthinkable and urges a government backed path to industrial peace. He argues for a tribunal to settle labor disputes and warns against minority rule, insisting reforms come only through orderly constitutional processes.
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Wilson
Congress
Charles B. Hughes
America
Pres. Wilson
Washington, D. C
Europe
Russia
Fie
Health Talks by Dr John B Huber Discusses Middle Life Diets
Health guidance urges middle aged adults to eat sparingly after 50, stressing that waste from excess food harms health. It cautions against meat and alcohol, touts exercise, and emphasizes elimination of waste through kidneys and skin. A reader’s note about gangrene prompts advice on truth about heredity and skin pimples on the neck. The column promotes disease prevention and hygiene with replies from Dr. Huber.
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Mall
John B. Huber
Little Life Confidences in the Experience of a Couple
In a domestic vignette Andrew Fulkerson recounts aiding Jim Farr, a high school football hopeful, by lending 75 cents to cover a night out with friends and the Junior Prom. Imogene scolds him for generosity while noting Jim’s financial strains and social pressures at school. The tale blends humor with a portrait of teen budgeting and peer influence.
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Andrew
Imogene
Rol Fulkerson
Sarah
Imogeng
Huht
Ned
James Farr
James
Jim
St, Aid
Rushing
Imazuma
Carfare
Cornar Pits
Dorothy
From the Cop Shop to a Moral Dilemma in 60 Cents
A man borrows 60 cents from a friend to help another in distress, then trails a tale of mistaken judgment, a drag rush, and a coop awaiting a chicken as the punchline. The exchange shifts from humor to tragedy as bias quarters unexpectedly solve the moral knot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James
Imogene
Andrew
IOwa Editors Fill An Empty Stocking
A Cedar Rapids Gazette note urges readers to help fill empty stockings for poor children during Christmas. It asks volunteers to assist Santa Claus by delivering aid to orphans, the sick, and the disadvantaged to brighten the holiday for all.
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Cedar Rapids
Santa Claus
Brain Tests by Sam Loyd puzzle answer
Remove ten letters from the given words to leave a body part. The sequence ACORN KALE YAWL JATL GRAIN CHEAT hides a solution. removing specific letters yields a remainder spelling a body part as in Loyd’s puzzle. The answer to no 237 identifies the intended subtraction leading to the term.
Fifty Years Ago in The Courier
Fifty years ago this Courier page from December 2 1869 reports gold at 121 a fall in Chicago wheat to 88 50 cents and notes warm and cool weather with rain and a foggy spell. Mentions of market prices apples from Michigan and coon skins as market items mix with local weather observations and social notes including a Waterloo census and a Gedar Falls concert crowd of 300.
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Eee
So We Hartman CO
West Park Ava
Jenn C. Hartman
A. W. Peterson
Treas
Waterloo
Associated Press
Ehoern
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Washington, D. C
Munsey
G. Dougherty
New York
Philadelphia
Chicago
Story, Brooks & Finley
Rep’s
Elgin
Orange Township
Eagle Center
E. S. Geist
Iowa
Daily Courier
Thanksgiving City Services and a Bear Dance Tale
Thanksgiving services included a Congregational sermon and a temperance jubilee at Free Baptist Church. Also noted were a St. Mark's service, lectures by Cobb Sherman and Austin, and a Dec 6 performance by Blind Tom. In fiction, Mr Bear hosts a party, Mr Dog hides, and a comical dance ends with Dog fleeing into the yard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clayton Welles
Congregational Church
St. Mark’s Church
Free Baptist Church
L. A. Cobb
J. J. Austin
Fox and Bear Plot in Woodland Tale
Mr Fox learns Mr Bear lives nearby and plans to befriend him to scare Mr Dog. He tells Tim Coon and Billy Possum of the idea, arguing the Bear is twice as big as the Dog. The trio schemes to visit the Bear together.
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Mr. Fox
Mr. Bear
Mr. Dy
Mr. D
Dog
Bear
Mr Bear
Mr. Dog
Islone
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Republic
Voliva
Zion City
B. Huber
Tassie
Kre
Knoxville Journal
Cummins and
Kenyon
Anamosa
Lincoln
McKinley
Roosevelt
Sioux City
Henry County
Sam Loyd
Tris
The
Courier
Cedar River
G.A. Knowles
Big Creek Township
Janesville
W.W. Whipple
John T. Poyner
Black Hawk County
Anne B. Davis
C. B. Davis
T. F Shannon
Margaret D. M. Kirby
Aaron Leckington
Susan A. Evans
Board of Health
Roger Leavitt
Beloit
Wis
C. A. Bishop
Supreme Court of Iowa
the Elks
J. O. Trumbauer
John A. Lusch
W. D. Storey
C. W. Torrey
J. H. Rafferty
A. G. Mann
C. J. Fosselman
Nettle Vroom
Nor Mandie E. Eberhart
Gedar Falls
George F. Root
Round House
Normal Institute
E.G. Miller
Gookins
Blind Tom
Opera House
Cann
Stanton
Harrison
Rutland
H. T. Banton
Frank Andrews
Estherville
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