Newspaper Page Miscellany Notes On Courtesy And Hardy
A Waterloo Iowa newspaper item laments audience discourtesy during Rudolph Reuter’s piano recital and praises common courtesy in theaters. It also previews a private performance of Tess of the d'Urbervilles for Thomas Hardy at his English home, noting Hardy’s status as a major novelist and the public’s pilgrimage to his works. A final quip defines a tramp as an habitual marathon hiker.
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FE Hartman
Courier
Perk Ave
Commercial St
John C. Hartman
Jackson McCay
Treus
Gen
Postuillca
Waterloo
Iowa
Associated Press
United Press International News
Associated Prose
Mombur Audit Bureau
New York
Philadelphia
Chicago
Las Angeles
San Francisco
Story
Brooks & Finley, Representatives
Rudolph’ ‘Reuter
Reuter
Middlewest
Jerening
Censorship at Des Moines Theatre Faces Opposition
Des Moines experiments with a three member censorship commission to pass on stage attractions amid protests from the Des Moines Woman's Club. The club opposes censorship and backs boycotts at the box office. The piece contrasts U S and English methods of theatre regulation and notes consequences for performers.
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Des Moines
Dest Moines Woman's Club
America
England
United States
Bowles seeks injunction to broadcast hog cattle quotes
Iowa editorials note Bowles cattle broker petitions courts to allow radio broadcasts of livestock market quotations from the Chicago exchange. The exchange bans disseminating market data by members via radio effective Dec. 1. Bowles seeks suspensory injunction amid looming legal contest.
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Davenport
John P. Bowles
Chicago Livestock Exchange
Bowles
Nervous strain and modern life in a health column
Dr William Brady discusses nerve strain as a social construct and criticizes overdiagnosis of nervous exhaustion. He links sedentary work, psychic stress, and overwork to cardiovascular risk, argues for modern diagnostic tools, and advises readers on diet and home hygiene while inviting brief reader letters for future columns.
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América
Thomas Carlyte Lusedt
Oliver Cromwell
Brady
William Brady
Murder at Sea Aboard the Norseman Strains Taffy’s Fate
Captain Carl Garrison investigates a murder on the steam yacht Norseman. Olaf Thornbere is killed with Thornber’s money found on the captain’s person. Carl Garrison, now under accusation, recalls a mysterious face he saw and a violent quarrel with Thornbere. An old dog named Taffy and a daughter Janet Needham provide emotional tension as plans for euthanizing the dog rise amid grim moral choices.
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Olat ‘Thornbers
Pers
Carl Garrison
Garrison
Thornberg
Carl Jacrison
Olaf Thornbere
Norsethan
Thornbere
Goodheart Revealed as Stranger in Needham’s Harbor Tale
A tense night unfolds as Haines with an automatic pistol returns to the net house and a rescue for Taffy shifts to a risky escape. Sheriff McManus taunts danger, and Carl Garrison learns the newcomer’s name John Goodheart while seeking a safe cover with Needham.
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Haines
Janet
Haine
Ezra
Taffy
Garrison
Carl Garrison
Carl
Needham
Cap'n
Cap'n Needham
Vans Harbor
Burroughs Nature Club Notes Question Column
Readers sent questions on nature topics and curiosity about local fauna and plants. The column promises answers in this paper and outlines sample questions about gum on fruit trees seals ears birds and insect tails.
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Nature Notes
Was there a real Robinson Crusoe and where did he come from
A reader asks if Robinson Crusoe is true. The essay outlines Daniel Defoe as author born 1661 who published in 1719 and links inspiration to sailor Alexander Selkirk, who deserted a ship off Chile in 1704 and lived on Juan Fernandez Island for about four years before being rescued by Woods Rogers. The piece notes Crusoe is not a literal account though it mirrors Selkirk’s adventures.
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Robinson Crusoe
Granville Barmore
Daniel Defoe
Defoe
Alexander Selkirk
Scotland
Selkirk
Shnadling
St. Jeft
Europe
Chile
Spain
Captain Stradling
Juan Fernandez
Woods Rogers
Great Britain
Nomms
Friday
United States
Histery
Socrates
Mary L. Howard
Lisceau
Therodotus
Bai~les
Isis
Soccrates
Herodotus
Tomorrow-a Little Saturday Talk Letters to Uncle Ray
Young readers are invited to write Uncle Ray at Q for a Saturday Corner letters contest. State age and school, plus name and address, and share stories they like best. Also includes trivia about cabinets ambassadors and philosophers with short quiz prompts.
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Uncle Ray
Steadying Drag and Pacific Hawks A Birding Note
The text discusses how hawks thrive along the Pacific coast due to favorable country, nesting sites, safe lookout points, and abundant prey like mice and squirrels. It also notes chinchillas as South American rodents in the Andes, whose fur trade reduced their numbers. A Springfield Republican editorial complains about a campus smoking controversy among girls and urges college authority to enforce policies.
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Pacific Coast
Peru
Andes
Abe Martin Faces Testimony Hurdles Overnight
Abe Martin struggles to testify about his location last night as doubts rise. Cotes claims to have money in his pocket and worries about rusting evidence.
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the Law
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Oxit Wallaces
New Hampton
Covernors
Knoxville Journal
Towa
Brookhart-Stock
Lowa
Senate
Cuming
Fort Dodge
Chronicle
New Orleans
Independence
William Brady, M. D
Peking
Questio
B.A. J
Nidoor Divellers
Aiglus da
Mar
Garvin
Val. Haines
Ura
Garrigan
Jaffy
Janny
Tally
Fanny
Sather
Janet Needham
MY Syoren Roy Rea
Pianissimo
Reg
Goodheart
Mil
Waukee
Bart
Sheriff McManus
Mister Goodheart
Ceara
Laton
Wisconsin
Val Haines
Cap'n Wheetham
Spore
Gari
Tye
John
John Goodheart
Wal ‘Haines
Needham Uie
Milwaukee
Racine
Burroughs Nature Club
Hougiton Alleles Co
Mts
Dbinson Grusoce
John A. Huecker
Springfield
Mass
Abe Martin
Cotes
Rustin
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