Waterloo Evening Courier and Associated Press Ad Rates
A mixed listing of publication details for the Waterloo Evening Courier including offices in Waterloo Chicago and New York. It notes weekly and daily pricing, distribution, advertising rates, and foreign post options alongside a reflected editorial essay on individualism and conformity in modern life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joan Haptatan
ACW
Persason
Sec'y-Treas
Mgr
New York
Tribune
Alfred
Lukens
Chicago
W. Allen
Evening Cour
Cirrier
Fee Geer
Outside City Courier
Wednesley
Waterloo
Tews
Zkrt
Ask Courier
Ecrote Amerian
Europe
Waterloo Evening Courier
Sle
London
Traffigar Building
Northcumberland Avenue
American Express
Haymarket
Dawe's Steamship Agency
Green Street
Paris
Boulevard Des Capucines
Comer Place de l
Christmas Peace and Reflections on Women’s Rights
The Evening Courier extends Christmas wishes and optimism for the new year while noting social progress and sorrowful conditions. It reflects on faith, generosity, and resilience, urging support for the distressed, and contrasts it with commentary on women’s bondage and ongoing gender inequality in society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evening Courier
Despond
Teaching Ministers Sociology in Minnesota Extension Division
The University of Minnesota launches a short course for ministers and their wives in rural sociology to apply modern scientific ideas to small town life. The program aims to educate church leaders and readers in sociological thought to address rural problems and social relations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Minnesota
Minnesota
The Saloon Era Declining in Iowa Counties
A montage of editorials notes saloon closures and Prohibition winds in Iowa counties. Observers discuss the Master Law shrinking craft and the life of saloons, with references to political shifts toward prohibition, Democratic and Progressive views, and the mood of county voters as 1908 looms.
Broadway Roadway of New York City’s Famous Street
Broadway is described as the heart of New York’s theatre and business world. The essay traces its evolution from a crooked immigrant path to a twenty mile thoroughfare stretching from the Battery to Yonkers, full of hotels theatres warehouses and signs. It portrays Broadway as America in one reel, a twenty mile leap from poverty to wealth with diverse districts and a busy crowd.
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Broadway
New York
New Amsterdam
the Battery
Wile North
Yonkers
Hudson
Albany
P. m
America
Ideas of a Plain Man Ideas of a Plain Man
A humorous exploration of perfection as an idea not an actual state. The piece cites anecdotes about perfect people and flawless objects, noting limits of precision and the cost of near perfection. It contrasts a revivalist joke with Brashear’s claim that absolute straightness is unattainable, requiring vast sums for near perfection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pister
John A. Bras
Pittsburgh
Super
Brashear
Prices rise as crop fears stir markets in advance
The text argues prices are high this season even before the crop is seen as short and corn is being marketed heavily. It questions Judge Van Wagenen's competence, noting long Northern Iowa legal experience yet surprise at administration, suggesting incompetence at appointment or now, while the Evening Tribune is accused of bias.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charter Oak Times
United States
van Wagenen
Des Moines Tribune
Iowa
The
Evening Tribune
Lue
A Moment of Fun and Odd Bits From Old Papers
A mixed page notes a playful verse about Santa Claus myths and parental gifts, a quip on a wife searching her husband’s pockets, and a Chicago Record-Herald misplacing pity. It also recaps local items from Thursday DA 25 1000, including Whitney farm improvements, a parish rector’s sudden death, a funeral, and brief items on a bridge contract, ostrich price curiosity, and a liver remedy anecdote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitney
Mullan
Whitney Brothers
W. T
G. A. Whitney
Fifty Years Ago In The Courier December 23 1868
Snow storms blockaded roads yet judgments of travel show many teams in town and good surrounding roads. Buckwheat flour from J M Kidd Waterloo Mill Co donated. Un seasoned wood scarce at $4 per cord. war widows suffer wood shortages. Sleighing good. Black Hawk county recruits rise as government seeks more. Andrew Mullarky Cedar Falls drowned near the race above the sawmill. Courier prints Lincoln's message to the south with editor Hartman praising Old Abe's brief argument.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterloo
the Courier
Lincoln
W. H. Hartman
Abe
Literary society debate lines up affirmative and negative speakers
The affirmative speakers are H. B. Alen GC W. Mullan and L. Alford. The negative speakers are Rey A A Elle worth Dr I W Christ and W H Curtiss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Literary Society
H. B. Alen
W. Mullan
L. Alford
Rey
A. A. Elleworth
I. W. Christ
W. H. Curtiss
Twenty Years Ago: Cedar Falls Innate Plans and Tragedies
A farmers institute was being planned for Cedar Falls in January. Martha Ayers died of apoplexy after a brief illness. Dennis Williams of Spring Creek township sold 75 stands of bees honey at a shilling 2 pound. Brakeman James Tynan died when wheels severed his head at Blairsburg. Marriages: Reed er and Ida M Jolls. Mamle Quest and C A La Barre. Ruth Barnes and Thomas H Heller. F M Taylor of Hampton, Ind. died by self-inflicted gunshot in Independ ence. Local corn marketed at 24 cents a bushel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmers’ Institute
Cedar Falls
Martha Ayers
Dennis Williams
Spring Creek Township
Independence
F. M. Taylor
Hampton
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Eveking
Associated
W. A. Hartmar Company
West Park Avenue
Othera
Tolstar
Tatrons
Lafayette Street F
Latier
Weil
Waterloo Sodas
Cui
Wilson
Owen
Glass
Parest Post
Towa
Mwe
Broad Prairies
Huerta
Spirit OF the
OWA Press
Independence Bulletin-Journal
Barden
Masonity Globe-Gagette
Express Company
Les Moines Register and Leader
Davenport
Grundy
Grundy County
Burlington
George Fitch
DR. Frank Crane
Santa Claus
Sister
Chicago Record-Herald
Baltimore American
Dinger
Parson Bagster
Pahson
Strel
Olof J. B. Ryan
St. Mark's Siete
Episcopal Church
C. S. Knox
Washington
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Emma Ballou
Jersey City
Tom Williams
E. M. Liue’s
A. N. Ferris
la Porte City Bridge
H. K. Horton
Rochester, Minn
Jola
Houston Post
Ira Smith
Point Blank
Texas
Courier
J. M. Kidd
Waterloo Mill Co
Black Hawk County
Andrew Mullarky
Ralston
Lamson
DR. Bodwell
Sea Floor Syndicate Bldg
Waterloo Savings Bank
Waterloo Savings Bank Savings Bank Corner
Weat
James Tynan
Blairsburg
E. J. Chapman
Matthew C. Reeder
Ida M. Jolls
Mamle Quest
C. A. la Barre
Ruth Barnes
Thomas H. Heller
DR. I
Bazard
Black Hawk Bank
E. H. Knittle
Bine
F. C. Liffring
Lafayette
Gerrit J. Bennett
West Fourth
Realdence
Elmwood
Weatorn
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