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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1912
Page
2
An essay extols aviators as brave clever men who push machines to high speeds and daring stunts. It warns of dangers and the grim fate of crashes, while arguing aviation should focus on usefulness and rescue rather than spectacle.
Local Waterloo Iowa newspaper page lists staff, offices in Waterloo and New York, Chicago, and Allied Bureau. details advertising rates, subscription options, and carrier delivery. It notes foreign postage and distribution abroad for the Courier in Europe with multiple European posting points.
The Paper that all Waterloo reads Saturday sights, and thoroughly digests Sunday, is the Saturday.
The Evening Courier reviews the Waterloo park board plan for 1923 detailing a public comfort station in Linagin Park and a west side district facility, plus a profitable refreshment stand at the popular bathing beach to fund further upgrades. The piece praises frugal stewardship and urges broader local support to build an excellent park system.
Fragmented OCR text presents a critique of a recent congress postal regulation urged by the Monitor. It references press autonomy, journalism interests, and government policy, but the garbled source limits clear event specifics or named entities.
The piece argues for a strict publicity law to protect consumers, likening it to the pure food act. It cites Thomas of Kent and a $20,000 loss in a “gold brick” investment. It also covers Danish women’s push for military service and suffrage, plus Taft’s Yale professorship offer as distinguished retirement and a note on price fixing by boards in Chicago.
A collage of Iowa editorial notes praises and critiques from Cedar Falls Cedar Rapids Council Bluffs and Marshalltown reflective on newspapers assets education labor and progressivism. It highlights belief in practical jobs and civic effort amid varied local commentary.
Des Moines Register reports Senator C. T. Thomas of Union Ringgold Nequant district advocates a blue sky style law for Iowa to require registration and thorough state investigations of all corporations proposing stock sales. The aim is to prevent fraudulent offerings and save money, mirroring Kansas experience.
Iowa progressives will hold a Des Moines conference in late January with Albert J. Beveridge as principal speaker. The plan includes permanent headquarters, statewide publicity, petitions to switch to the progressive party, precinct organization, and drafting reform bills for 1914. Judge John L. Stevens to open national headquarters. a January conference banquet may feature Beveridge.
Lincoln December 13. W Bryan in yesterday’s Commoner states his positions on four congressional issues. He opposes enlarging privileges of national banks and favors government issued emergency currency. he suggests former presidents may be granted debate participation as an honor without compensation.
The text argues that appointments should be reserved for the president elect and notes the concern over lifelong tenure and partisan civil service extensions benefiting Republican appointees. It ends with an advertisement for Chamberlain's Tablets for bilious attacks.
Detroit telegraph lines reported town burning near Brown City Sanilac County with about 900 residents. Initial reports described half the city burned and the fire possibly starting in the business district as authorities sought information from local operators.
In Hopkins Iowa near here last night Frank Pierson fourteen was shot and fatally wounded while his mother was shot in the hand by a man said to be a rejected suitor of Lola Pierson. The suspect Charles McCardue, taught near Cornell Missouri, reportedly confessed. An advertisement touts Chamberlains Cough Remedy.
In St Paul on December 12 Assistant Attorney General Edward Grosvenor expects to finish the government case with one witness left. J W McDougall of South Dakota testified as the final witness. Hearings will resume in Chicago Monday. PASTOR TAKES NEW CHARGE Sioux City January 12 Reverend August Norhomm resigns from Swed ish Lutheran Augustana church and will leave March 27 for Des Moines to join First Swedish Lutheran church.
An advertisement touts Syrup of Figs as a safe thorough cleanse for children with stomach and bowel issues. It claims natural ingredients of figs senna and aromatics, promises gentle relief from fever stomach ache and constipation, and urges mothers to keep it handy. The full product name and maker are given as California Fig Syrup Co.
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