Waterloo Daily News Rate Card and Policies
The Waterloo daily advertises subscription prices by carrier and mail, with yearly, six month, and monthly options. It lists office locations, rights reserve clauses, advertising policies, payment terms due by the 10th, and editor and manager names. It notes Associated Press and United Press International affiliations and national advertising offices.
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Waterloo
Town
Associated Press
United Press International News
Audit Bureau of Circulations
New York
Philadelphia
Chicago
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Story
Brooks & Finley, Representatives
Cornstalk Book Paper Demonstrates New Industry
At a New York University club event chemists publishers and manufacturers received copies of Farm Products in Industry by Dr. George M. Rommel. The book details cornfield waste paper progress from rough wrapping to fine book grades with Kalamazoo Vegetable Parchment and Michigan Paper mills producing the coated text. Rommel predicts farm waste absorption could add 1.5 billion dollars yearly to American farm income.
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University Club
New York City
George M. Rommel
Federal Department of Agriculture
Midwest
Kalamazoo
Mich
Michigan Paper Company
Plainwell
Cornstalk Products Company
Danville
Ill
Rommel
California antitoxin cures pneumonia advance reported
The University of California laboratories announce a new easily prepared antitoxin for pneumonia. Dr B I Freedlander notes mice tests show the serum can forestall disease, with potential use as inoculation and a curb to spread in humans. If effective, it could flatten the winter mortality peak, especially February, by preventing or delaying serious cases.
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University of California
B. i. Freedlander
California
Grand Old Man of the Screen Theodore Roberts Dies
Theodore Roberts veteran character actor of cinema dies leaving a legacy of natural acting admired nationwide. Once a life-contract holder and famed for Simon Legree in Uncle Tom's Cabin and Svengali in Trilby, he evolved from villain to urbane elder roles and staged a dramatic sketch tour. He will be missed by admirers and peers alike.
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Theodore Roberts
Cand
Theodore ‘Roberts
Hollywood Film Colony
Roberts
Simon Legree
Svengali
George M. Cohan
Vindication At Last For Cartoon Sound Effects
A dated, humorous reflection on cartoon violence and sound effects, noting critics claim sounds like Pow Bam and Zowle are unrealistic while praising science for supporting the cartoon idea in one respect. The piece playfully questions verisimilitude in depictions of impact and motion.
Cheese Under Microscope Reveals Moving Micropeopled Cheese
An experimenter at the University of Maryland used a motor clock camera and microscope to film irises roses an egg in development vinegar and Roquefort cheese. The cheese appeared as a mass of rapidly moving creatures under magnification raising questions about optical illusion and future research. The note ends with a contrasting quip about two dollar bills.
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University of Maryland
Liver and anemia cure promise sparks price debate
A medical column argues liver can cure pernicious anemia and calls for daily half-pound portions or liver extract as a treatment. It notes liver prices rise and cautions limits of liver in secondary anemia, urging lifelong adherence if cured.
Questions and Answers An Old Rule Fails
Reader letters discuss cosmetic safety costs and trust in price. The doctor suggests tincture of soda in water for angina management and urges a strict daily routine, including time for constitutional. A Mrs W B asks about cleft palate causes. the answer states the palate development issue is unknown and not hereditary.
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Reforming the Calendar By Glenn Frank
Wisconsin president Glenn Frank proposes a 13 month year with 28 days each. The plan inserts a thirteenth month between June and July, standardizing weekdays with dates and allowing universal 4 week months to simplify accounting, wages, and holidays. He cites potential savings in business, government and printing calendars.
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Glenn Frank
University of Wisconsin
Century Magazine
McClure Newspaper
Leroy Austin
Committee
Congress
National
Ceaiae
Savig
Metropolitan opera critics roast chorus and crowds
New York opinion columns blast the Metropolitan for loud audience heckling while praising backstage pacing and quick changes. The piece discusses how applause, bows, and encores disrupt performances, with notes on theater etiquette, social climbers, and a comic interlude about mistletoe and rabbits.
Abe Martin and the mistletoe hint at Christmas lore
The tale features Abe Martin and two bunnies retrieving mistletoe from a bungalow decorated for Christmas. It wryly notes mistletoe’s uses beyond a kissing game and quips about ink from an egg beater failing to clean a fountain pen bath for the goldfish. Uncle Wiggily’s Christmas nods in the punchline.
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Uncle Wiggily
Uncle Wiggily Searches for Mistletoe After Christmas Handoffs
Uncle Wiggily finishes holly wreaths and is urged by his wife to find mistletoe. Baby Bunty asks why Uncle Wiggily’s toe is needed, adding a light note of the domestic Christmas scene.
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Uncle Wiggily
Mr. Longears
Baby Bunty
Mistletoe Quest With Bunny Uncle and Bunty
A whimsical scene features Bunny Uncle Wig inviting Bunty to join a mistletoe adventure. Bunty asks what mistletoe is and whether it is edible while the uncle explains mistletoe berries are eaten by birds.
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Bunty
Uncle Rays Corner Walton Christmas Part One
Betty asks if Santa will bring gifts to the poor and wonders why rich children seem favored. Mrs. Walton explains Santa’s fairness and uncertainty about delivering to them. Jerry quietly contemplates, then heads out, promising lunch. Tomorrow Jerry Works.
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Walton
Betty
Mrs. Walton
Santa Claus
Burroughs Nature Club Notes Column Inquiry
The Burroughs Nature Club Notes asks readers to send questions of general interest to the Nature Notes Dept for answers published in this newspaper column. It invites inquiries about nature subjects and mentions copyright details from 1928.
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Burroughs Nature Club
Houghton Mifflin Co
Nature Notes
Do Fishes and Birds Have Parasites and Pink Under Wings
A reader asks if fishes get parasites like birds and animals and whether any bird besides the rose breasted grosbeak has pink under its wings. The note then shifts to a Q and A section answering questions about bone diagrams in reference books, the origin of the term cerealia for cereals, and how aquatic birds avoid freezing in icy waters with feather structure and oils helping shed water.
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Riverside Natural History
Warren
Colorado
Ceres
The Fortunate Wayfarer by Phillips Oppenheim
Martin Barnes, a traveling salesman, is drawn to a country estate by Lord Ardrington who hands him 80 000 pounds and a deed of gift. Reuniting with his fiancée and facing a moral dilemma, Barnes becomes entangled in a tale of wealth, class, and ominous motives as Ardrington reveals a fear of death and a plan to test a stranger’s fate. The invitation to remain at Ardrington Hall deepens the mystery as two armed men appear on a lonely road and Barnes contemplates his future among the aristocratic circle.
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Helen Gould
Wall Street
Martin Barnes
Lord Ardrington
Ardrington
Gerald Garnham
Martin
Maisies
Lord Aldrington
Barnes
Garnham
Norwich
Thorely
Aldrington
Ardring
Ton Halle
Lincoln
Lady Blanche
Versailles
Overheated rooms blamed for winter colds
Burlington Gazette reports Dr. Harvey Wiley of Good Housekeeping says winter colds stem from overheated rooms and unventilated beds. He urges ventilation even in cold weather and warns overheating as the surest way to catch a cold.
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Burlington Gazette
Harvey Wiley
Good Housekeeping
Wiley
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