Waterloo Evening Courier and Reporter Masthead Note
The Waterloo paper notes it is published daily except Sunday by W. H. Hartman Co. with management including A. W. Seternon as secretary treasurer and general manager. Rates: daily per week by carrier ten cents. yearly mail outside city eight dollars and ninety cents. Advertising rates available. classified ads two lines minimum, one cent per word. Offices listed in New York Philadelphia and Chicago.
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Waterloo Evening Courier
Waterloo Reporter
Associated Frees
Audit Bureau of Circulationn
W. H. Hartman Company
Weat Park Avenes
Foher
Martman
Free
A.W. Seternon
Sec'y-Trean
Gen. Mer
Postomice
Waterloo
Iowa
New York
Philadelphia
Chicago
Mashrook
Story & Brooks
Mars
Optimism Grows As Exchanges Open And Trade Improves
The Christian Science Monitor notes improving business sentiment with open stock exchanges boosting courage. Steel and copper demand rise, exports increase, and November trade shows higher totals despite war, signaling groundwork for better 1919 conditions.
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Altho
Agys
Christian Science Monitor
United States
Germany
Department of Commerce
Ames College Broadens Short Course Statewide for Farmers
Iowa farmers are informed that Ames college will broaden its short course work to cover all parts of the state rather than limiting it to Story county this winter due to the foot and mouth disease. Some reduction in the usual shore course program will be necessary.
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Iowa
Ames College
Story County
General Education Board funds Iowa colleges
The General Education Board led by John D. Rockefeller plans endowments for Iowa colleges. five institutions share 996,515 dollars with numbers allocated to Coe, Cornell, Drake, Grinnell, and Morningside. The board emphasizes wealth centers, denominational cooperation, and endowment gifts. Des Moines donations to Sunday evangelism are noted, as are mixed city council actions, a dividend hike, and a looming white Christmas in Iowa amid broader global tensions.
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General Education Board
John D. Rockefeller
Iowa
Coe College
Seablete
Gornnell College
Drake University
Grinnell College
Wees
Morningside College
The Reindeer as Arctic Helper and Symbol
A long reflective piece extols the reindeer as a versatile North Pole animal. It sustains Laplanders with clothing fibers milk and cheese, carries heavy loads, and could vastly improve winter travel. It contrasts myth with fact and notes government reindeer projects aiding Alaska natives and seasonal transport possibilities.
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Arctic Circle
Santa Chaya
Parcel Post
North Pole
Lapland
Europe
To the Heart of the Matter The Seat of Morality
An essay argues the seat of morality lies in altruistic instinct rather than religion or authority. It asserts civilization moves care from self to family, then to community and humanity, guided by education, law, culture, breeding, and environment. The piece links Jesus Golden Rule to Kantian ethics as universal law.
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Heaven
Hell
Jesus
Ikant
Sale of Arms Sparks Senate Debate in 191? Session
Springfield Mass Republican reports Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska urged a bill to bar the shipment of arms or ammunition from the United States to combatants at peace with the nation. He argued the country profits from war materials while seeking peace and cited unused Krag rifles as potential for sale.
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Springfield
Mass
Hitchcock
Nebraska
United States
Mexico
Sam
Armament Sale Ban Then War Advantage, Not Peace
The author argues that forbidding arms sales to nations at war would backfire, privileging aggressive powers and hindering defense. A general ban would force nations to buy abroad during conflicts, strengthening warlike states. Maintaining arms sales preserves capacity to resist, while neutral policy would favor Kruppism and unprepared nations.
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United States
Germany
Hitchcock
Ames Short Course Not Abandoned at Iowa State College
Ames Iowa December 23 1917 the state veterinarian clears the way for an expanded short course at Iowa State College. The program covers livestock care and management horse judging soils crops horticulture and poultry farm dairy management with health and sanitation lectures. Special teacher and youth tracks plus night sessions on rural issues are planned. Persons within five miles of foot and mouth infected premises are asked to refrain from attending.
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Ames
Iowa
Iowa State College
Story County
Feeding the Railroad Cow on Sawdust
Leslie's Weekly outlines President H. A. Mudge's twelve year review of the Rock Island system. It warns that if current trends continue only a wealthy government could operate a large railroad, with net revenue declines of over 16 million in 1914 due to six uncontrollable factors.
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Leslie’s Weekly
H. A. Mudge
Rock Island Railroad
Rock Island
Mudge
Hieber
W C T U updates and German prize ships sale note
The Waverly and Plainfield W C T U chapters report meetings with new members and ongoing efforts led by president Mrs Lula Drestler and officers including Miss Nellie Kelsey and Mrs Elvira Martin. Separate dispatch notes four German prize ships sold in London under admiralty marshal orders with bidders signing anti alliance declarations.
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Waverly
Elmer Burton
Waverly Union
Fox
Plainfield W. CT
Lula Drestler
Warren W. C. T. U
Willard Temple
Tripoli
Fwo
A. L. Wilhelm
Nellie Kelsey
Elvira Martin
D. A. Ladd
Sumner
Maude Aldrich
Cedar Rapids
Bramer County
London
Tise
Gerhard
Theodor
Bolivar
Admiralty
Marshal of the Admiralty
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F. H. Latier
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