Wateroo Evening Courier: Changing Veridic and Prosperity Signs
A study of shifting views on Woodrow Wilson and Roosevelt, reflecting evolving historic judgment. The piece notes the League of Nations debate, the security pact, and contends future historians may place Wilson and Roosevelt among America’s notable figures alongside Washington and Lincoln. It contrasts idealism with practical outcomes, and ponders long-term fame. The column also surveys theater prosperity as a barometer of economic health, citing Belasco on touring companies and overall uplift in consumer leisure.
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United States
Woodrow Wilson
Wilson
Versailles
Sion
League
of Nations
Athout
America
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Washington
Lincoln
David Belasco
New York
Relasca
Machines and Men in Labor Economics
A fragmented discussion notes that a lone conlie can move a ton a mile daily for about 20 cents, while steam railroads haul freight for under a cent per ton mile. It contrasts cheap coolie labor with American skilled labor utilizing machinery, arguing labor-saving techs lower costs for shippers while reducing visible labor costs.
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America
Blood pressure myths and medical advice from Dr Brady
Dr William Brady discusses blood pressure anxiety and misbeliefs about high readings. He warns that exact figures are not a layperson’s concern and cautions against overuse of salts to thin blood. He explains systolic, diastolic, and pulse pressures, and notes meat intake is not inherently tied to hypertension.
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Thad
Reacers
Wisenheimer
Merck
Dr. Brady
William Brady
Christmas supplements and fires and church events in Cedar Valley
Fifty years past in the Courier records a Cedar Valley Presbyterian church festival on December 31 with free supper and forty cent admission to aid debt on the church building. A fire destroyed the Wightey residence in Engle township. contents saved. Christmas Eve exercises featured Dr J T Crippen and Miss Kate Fisher among participants. Santa Claus appeared at the Congregational church. Six Mile Grove near Miller’s Creek hosted a Christmas program at the Methodist Episcopal church.
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Cedar Valley Presbyterian Church
Wightey
Engle
Kate Fisher
Belle Metatfin
Cora Spencer
Kate Hopson
J.T. Crippen
Jefferson Street Mt. B. Church
G. J. Mack
Santa Claus
Congregational Church
Six Mile Grove
Miller’s Creek
Revival series to open at Universalist church Sunday
Reverend J. Austin begins a revival series at the Universalist church next Sabbath morning with the topic The Immortality of the Soul. The notice also requests unpaid subscriptions be settled as the new year starts and reports the marriage of Isage Leckington to Miss Jennie Austin on December 9 near Lena, per the parents.
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Austin
The
Universalist
Isage Leckington
Jennie
Lena
Widnedsay 1885 Memo: Gifts Accidents and Weddings
A December 1885 local column notes Mrs. Joseph Hileman of La Porte City received $500 as a Christmas gift from her father Hummel of Waterloo. A late afterno on accident near Orange township church involved G W Landis team running away. Mr Landis and his five year old daughter were injured. Arthur Hummel and Carrie Husman wed near La Porte City with guests from Waterloo. Eighty inmates were in Black Hawk county jail last year. Cal Wagner's Minstrel show played to a full house. March 1 new stock exchange plans announced between L B Brooks and J H Washburn at Hudson. Miss Gertie Bunnell attended Cedar Falls music teachers convention.
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Widnnesday
Dec
Joseph
Hileman
la Porte City
Hummel
Waterloo
G. W. Landis
Orange Township
Arthur Hummel
Miss Carrie
Husman
Buerts
Water loo 1905 improvements and local notices
Twenty years back notes show Waterloo improvements reaching 1 016 816 dollars for 1905. S D W King of Mt Vernon town ship badly injured after a hay load fall. His son W H King of Austin Minn aids at bedside. Rev Peter Hallowell age 8 preaches strong sermons. Adelbert D Sumner weds Myrtle Van Vieck at bride’s home. Tom Richmond patents a paraaerial terrestrial tricycle concept. County coroner T A McManus handled 14 cases last year.
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D. W. King
Mt. Vernon Township
W. H. King
Austin, Minn
Tom Richmond
Jesup
Spindlerift A Novel of the Great Lakes
Spindrift a novel by Harold Titus follows Capt Carl Garrison wrongly jailed for murder. After escaping, he assumes a new name John Goodheart and hatches a plan with ally Needham to seize freedom and confront pursuit. A police poster reveals his ruse as a target for reward as he flees by tug toward Green Bay, while memories of the crime haunt him and a chance romance develops amid peril.
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the Great Lakes
Harold Titus
Carl Garrison
Olat ‘Shorbers
Norszman
Needham
John Geedheart
Garrison
Sera
Anpiain
Tinknes
Newel Nis
Caeriser
Rene
Needlan
Eatin
Haines
Marquette Penitentiary
Val Haines
Carl Rison
John Gootheart
Tlaines
Ludington Street
John Goodheart
Blackman
Little Bay de Noe
Green Bay
Hell
Round the World Notes Greenland feature in Corner
The Corner launches a series Round the World Notes starting with Greenland. It explains Greenland as the world’s largest island, part of Denmark, with Eskimo populations and Norse history, plus ice cover and massive glaciers. Future installments will cover Iceland Britain Ireland and more.
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Asia
Africa
Siberia
Persia
India
Congo
Morthl
Morthl Notes.” Leam
North American
North Atlantic
Gresnland
Iceland
Ireland
Norway
Sweden
Lapland
Finland
Latvia
Greenland
Australia
Graasland
Burroughs Nature Club Notes Queries and Answers
A 1925 nature column from Burroughs Nature Club Notes answers readers questions on animals and plants. It covers topics like whether hogs cross with goats, safety of sprayed vegetables, bird illnesses, fish young names, ant eyes, and keeping certain animals in captivity with cautions and brief explanations.
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Nature Notes
Abe Martin Neo Wonder Flovidy Hutels Pronounced
Abe Martin reports on a quirky scene as locals react to a sensational claim about the Waswortherners. Amid short skirts cigarettes gin and Charleston dances, modesty stays high while the town debates the odd provocation and its consequences.
Uncle Wiggily and the Quiet Fool
Howard R. Garis describes a bitter cold spell at Uncle Wiggily’s woodland hollow stump bungalow where the ground lies under deep chill and straw remains scattered as the tale begins.
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Uncle Wiggily and the
Quiet Fool
Howard R. Garis
Uncle Wiggily
Thia Hollow Stump
Eel A Pickerel Thrust Its Nose From Water
A fragmentary scene describes a pickerel’s thin nose emerging from a frozen lake as salt life retreats to burrows. White snowflakes drift down to blanket the landscape, signaling a long wait for spring and the animals’ quiet resting state.
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Eel A. Pickerel
Quiet Pool Adventure in Uncle Wiggily Tale
A warm spell thaws a winter pool near Annie Wirgerly’s bungalow. Uncle Wiggily sits by the open water when a pickerel surfaces and a fox bursts from the bank, prompting a splashy encounter as the rabbit and animals face the new year with excitement and danger.
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Anneie Wirgerly
Lulu
Alice
Jimmie Wibblewobble
Treg
Uncle
Bunny
Mr. Longears
Uncle Wiggtty
Warner
Tam
Golden House of Nero spans a mile of ancient grounds
Historical notes describe the Golden House as a vast complex around gripe arbors and game preserves, with bathing pools and a 120 foot statue of Nero. A 3,000 foot long display line of palace frontages, banquet halls with a round ceiling, and perfumes dropped on guests. After Nero’s death the complex was dismantled and the sites later reused for other buildings and public baths.
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Noro
Natalia
Warner
Aed
Hites
Halle
Nero
Golden House
Sumone
Trajan
Titus
Uncle Wiggily Aventures In New Year Tale
Pool scene features Uncle Wiggily and Mr Fox after a splash. Uncle Wiggily leaves the pool and heads home to his bungalow after a day of adventures. The text ends with a playful note about toasting forks and cheese on a bread board.
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Uncle Wiggily
Mr. Fox
Munsey estate and the love of work rise in columns
Excerpts discuss Frank G. Munsey's estimated forty million estate on his birthday and the idea that most people work from love or for family. Other notes critique psychological sales tactics, Florida land pitches, Balkan civilizing talk, and a Iowa highway program stressing proper road work before paving.
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Cedar Rapids
Frank G. Munsey
Frank Munsey
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