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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1913
Page
2
Kenosha Wisconsin has launched a nonrestricted school for the unemployed to use idle factory workers. The program offers 30 hours of daytime study weekly, with some participants also attending evening classes. Davenport’s night school showcases a fuller return on public school investments, prompting discussion on Waterloo and Ames college trades integration.
The extension engineering department of the state college at Antes reports promising support for a night school in Waterloo. The project aims to train local manufacturers and shop men, with full operation beginning after the new year once attendance and interest are secured. Mittens drive urged to aid children in need during cold weather.
A column rails at Congress for year round toil and lost mileage while tax bites Christmas pay. It notes envy of distant lawmakers, jokes about boots with zero buttons, and sensational Williston lynching memories. Also reports a New York man fined for immoral rental use and Thomas Lawson gifting hens and roosters to grandchildren as Christmas nears.
Marshalltown Times-Republican notes a social dispute over saloon profits during Christmas. It argues that profits harm women and children, linking tavern income to charitable stockings. The piece reflects concern over divorce and affinity and cites a Supreme Court decision about spontaneous affection.
Twenty years ago on December 20 1893 J P Knapp Co bankers in Cedar Falls failed with 64 claims totaling 395.43 dollars. Cedar Falls National Bank capital rose to 75000 dollars. Sheriff raided water street for illegal liquor, fined 40 dollars. Elihu Root named for presidency by Carnegie. Bryce rumor of return to Independence. Sheriff Hoxie and county attorney raid La Porte City for further violators. Robert Hile, 16, of Jesup, died from a knee wound suffered six weeks earlier.
A satirical piece discusses slot machines as automatic clerks and their social impact. It laments their ubiquity in stores and post offices, notes their appeal and limitations, and imagines future ideas like regulated use and coin mechanisms. It also jokes about phones, guns, and pianos linked to coin slots.
Dr. Frank Crane defends realism and rejects ugliness in fiction. He argues true art finds beauty and grandeur in humble life and rejects novels like Madame Bovary and Song of Songs as unreal or detestable.
Muscatine Journal questions Senator Cummins record after five years in the Senate. The Republican editorial notes it does not imply Cummins cannot deliver results and urges scrutiny.
The senator notes both actions completed and remaining tasks to satisfy TJ and to make Jowans proud of his record. The interview frames accomplishments and omissions as a measure of accountability and commitment.
The Davenport Democrat reports demand for the night school instruction under the board of education is exceeding expectations with enrollment nearing six hundred. Officials consider halting new enrollments to focus on steady, earnest work as evening classes continue to expand. Webster City Freeman-Tribune notes many rural mail carriers resigning in southwestern Iowa over parcel post growth. Some predict more resignations unless compensation rises, as the Post Office seeks higher salaries to attract relief carriers.
Citizens of Waterloo push a draft rumor law modeled after a Wisconsin measure to curb local gossip linked to the liquor fight. The controversy grows from drys and wets clashing and spilling into personal and business resentments amid heated charges and countercharges.
The passage criticizes street chatter predicting collapses in local commerce and warns that such forecasts rarely materialize. It notes most communities face some of this doom‑talk, yet the repeated predictions tend to be dismissed as unserious.
A collection of light humor and cartoons notes from various papers. Jokes span definitions of a pilgrim in a classroom, a physician joke about measles commissions, janitorial quips about holiday work, meter on telephones, and an old retort about a self same fool.
The notice highlights business changes with Crittenden and Cutler dissolving the firm and Mr Cutler continuing the business alone. It also records a December 18 1873 edition reference and various brief items about lectures, marriages, officials, and notable deaths in Boston Grundy Center Cambridge and Des Moines along with curious anecdotes about an oyster feast and travelers returning from Washington.
Des Moines reports alleged widespread forgeries on a saloon petition. H M Havner and W J Pilkington, leaders for the drys, seek to quash the petition with court action. Pilkington claims some signatures were forged by workers in a precinct, possibly affecting 60 percent in some areas.
At a meeting last night workers reported widespread forgeries in petitions in East Des Moines. W J Pilkington cited 80 likely forgeries in a ward area as 2 000 pamphlets of names were prepared for distribution to voters. No contest or withdrawals were filed as canvass stalled with thousands of names yet to be verified.
Dubuque county board of supervisors began the canvass of the petition of consent to the sale of intoxicating liquor in Dubuque. Over 6,000 names must be checked and a sufficient majority found among voters to sustain the petition. Early returns show 2,690 of 3,795 votes in the first three wards.
A New York physician quips that doctors would go bankrupt if not for women’s thin stockings and shoes. The ad touts Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy for coughs and colds as effective and safe. Also promos fur nace coal at Blim’s and Christmas Victor Fictrolas at Stroeh et al with listed prices.
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