Watertown Courier Abbreviated News Summary
The Watertown Courier reviews President Coolidge's state of the union message. It highlights aims for budget balance, tax policy, and defense, plus flood control and river works. It notes agriculture needs careful support without price fixing, proposing a federal board to aid marketing and farmer financing.
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Congress
Agant
Coolidge
Union
White House
Iowa
Middle West
South
Commission of Alse
Advice on nursing training and reducing course length
A reader asks about nursing as a career and how to reduce training time. Dr. Brady cautions nursing is hard work and explains it is a calling, not a profession, with good prospects if skilled. He warns hospital schemes to stretch three-year programs and suggests two-year training, with further information from the American Schools association.
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Alll
Sach
American Schools Association
Capitol Building
Chicago
Times
New York
Humorists Struggle With Public Stage and Private Ink
New York critics note professional humorists appear somber in public and fail to translate wit to printed pages. Will Rogers, Irvin Cobb, and Robert Benchley shine in after-dinner talks, but many flounder writing for magazines. Private patrols, library pigeons, and a London heartthrob trend punctuate a broader portrait of public humor this season.
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New York
Irvin Cobb
Lardner
Bugs Baer
Georgy Ade
Emr
Muld
Will Rogers
Robert Benchley
Fifth Avenue
Forty Second Street
Old Albion
The Disease of Diagnosis by Glenn Frank
The essay critiques the modern obsession with self analysis and psychoanalysis. It argues that constant self scrutiny harms spirit while urging a return to mystery, silence, and modesty as Amiel advised. It warns against overexposure of inner life in contemporary culture.
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Dr. Brady
William Brady
Glenn Frank
University of Wisconsin
Century Magazine
McClure
Henri-Frederic Amiel
Uncle Wiggily Sneaks From Hollow Log in Candy Plot
Uncle Wiggily hides inside a hollow log while the Bushy Bear snoops nearby and longs for a rabbit dinner. The bear searches blindly after tasting a candy cane, unaware the rabbit gentleman remains concealed within the log.
Farmers Face Tax Cuts Tariff Debate and Economic Policy
The article discusses tax relief for farmers, cooperative marketing for buying or building property, and policy suggestions. It argues states should cut local expenditures, supports tariff retention to aid agriculture, and warns against broad industry tariff cuts that could close farming markets and lower living standards in competing countries.
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Coolidge
Adventures of Cartier TI trading with Indians at Chaleur Bay
In July Cartier described the first friendly meeting with natives at Chaleur Bay. Two sailors traded knives and hats for furs and clothes while Indians danced in water. He called the people savage and noted their shaved heads with a single tuft as a scalp challenge.
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Cartier TI
Chaleur Bay
Cartier
St. Lawrence
Uncle Wiggily Traps Bear With Acorn Chocolate Drops
Uncle Wiggily hides in a log from a Bear intent on eating him. He plans to throw acorns masquerading as chocolate drops to lure the Bear away, hoping to slip out and go home. The ruse fails when the “drops” prove to be real acorns, foiling his escape plan. He improvises a new idea and promises to reveal the outcome tomorrow.
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Wiggily
Fat Rabbit
Bear
Uncle Wigs Rily
Tor
Uncle Wiggily
Mr. Lonecars
Abe Martin Laughs at Marriage of Uncle’s Widow
Dan Boss recalls marrying his uncle’s widow as the best option at the time. The exchange mixes humor with reflections on marriage and fate.
Burroughs Nature Club Notes Questions Answers
A nature column invites reader questions on octopuses birds bees and bugs with answers promised in the next issue. It recalls prior Q A on beetles insect names hens eggs and bee nests and advises sending specimens for accurate identification.
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Nature Notes
Nis
Coniact
Fifty Years Ago in The Courier December 5 1877
Read notes from The Courier recalling December 5 1877 events. Thanksgiving services were held in the opera house with Rev J R Berry Rev O E Baker and others taking part. A southern temperance stance was voiced by Rev W A Allen. Local salaries and college enrollment figures are listed including M W Bartlett D S Wright and Miss Frances Webster. Saloonekeepers paid fines in November. Church bell tower and clock details noted. Road conditions around Waterloo described as severe with muddy, frozen streets endangering horses.
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Opera House
J. R. Berry
Grace M. E. Church
O. E. Baker
A. G. Eberhart
Muscatine
E. W. Burnham
M. W. Bartlett
D. S. Wright
Frances Webster
Iowa
H. GC. Hemenway
Local notes on excursions milk sale and town events
FortY years ago report highlights Judge F C Flatt and Mrs Flatt planning an excursion to New Orleans and California. Parrott families visit Chicago for holidays. Cedar Falls milkmen announce winter milk, price 16 cents a quart to casual customers 8 1/2 quarts sold. Sheriff elect H B Hoxie to move to Waterloo January 1. Old horses shot and buried after long service. A F Klingaman visits Kimball reporting snow and growth. Fifth street bridge work advances. George Leland sells 57 Red Jersey pigs averaging 28 pounds, total $420. Helmet lodge officers elected with L Henderson and J B Bragdon also chosen.
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Cedar Falls
H. B. Hoxie
Barclay Township
Waterloo
Local Notes From 1907 College Town Skewed By Time
Twenty years ago on a December Saturday Col D E Lyons of Dubuque declares he feels well by avoiding worry sleeping regular hours exercising and living simply Ethel Dickinson and Nolte Gasser wed in Minneapolis Rev Frederick Elliott resigns to take a Morning Sun pulpit Antone Wangler returns from Germany Rev Ephraim Adams dies at 89 founded Town College at Grinnell and other inland small events noted from Des Moines to Chicago
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D. E. Lyons
Dubuque
Frederick Elliott
United Presbyterian
Morning Sun
Belle Sherman
D. W Robinson
Des Moines
Ephriam Adams
Andover
Mass
Park Avenue West
Town College
Grinnell
New Ipswich
N. H
Las Bright
Moth and pests on apple trees noted with advisory
A reader reports egg masses encircling twigs and eye clusters of 150 to 250, advising winter surveillance and burning of every egg cluster. The piece also contains a humorous Detroit News mockery and a quote from Robert Quillen about wealth and happiness.
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