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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1915
Page
2
An affectionate portrait of college glee clubs, detailing their journeys during holidays, Pullman car antics, and the social rituals surrounding campus music. It contrasts playful songs with serious choral aims and quips about student life and endurance in touring.
About 30,000 men in Philadelphia stood to pledge a dry vote following Billy Sunday’s half day and half night sermons on booze. Converts for the day numbered 1,600, with supporters including saloonkeepers coming to his tabernacle. Notable attendees included Harry Davis of the Athletics and Riddie Plank.
Harvard emeritus president Dr Charles W Eliot is praised for intellect and public vision yet criticized for ignoring urban poverty and worker rights. The piece lauds his foundations mindset while noting his stance against modern labor reforms and social welfare measures.
A new case of foot and mouth disease appears in Clinton county. A local organization sent a committee of farmers to Des Moines to clear out Dr Gibson and the so called hull darned outfit of toway quarantine regulations. A home call to protect their herds could disrupt their efforts.
Citizens propose a spring work scheme in Webster City to assist unemployed heads of families. Families perform winter repairs on homes such as papering and painting to earn money for necessities, with employers showing benevolence. If successful, the approach could relieve scarce labor in March and inspire Waterloo to try it.
A movement opposing the Carranza and Villa parties is said to be led by the Cientificos, the aristocratic class tied to Diaz and Huerta. Victory for this faction seems likely amid the current disorder as capable fools and knaves pursue clear aims.
The piece rails at Representative Good for accusing packers of monopolistic control of live stock markets and notes rising meat prices while farmer incomes fall. It mocks city manager talk in schools, warns of a new federal dope law, and references Mexico’s 1835 carnival of executions as a lesson in self government.
Bishop Quayle argues spanking aids child rearing and obedience, condemning parental neglect and urging mothers to teach obedience first and last. He warns that unobedient children become nuisances and implies police may have to intervene to enforce discipline.
A 1865 column recalls cold January records, Hayden found dead after snowball taunts at Capwell's. Cedar Falls levies a penny per bushel of wheat and five cents per hog to aid wood for soldiers' families, raising $400 in four days. Washington New Year reception claims Lincoln greeted 20,000. Mrs Lincoln's attire described. lectures by Barnum Greeley Douglass and others noted. Davenport preacher Bishan Lee addresses Rock Island prisoners, while John Morgan railed against emancipation efforts.
A storm gripped Iowa with record snowfall and deep drifts. rail service halted as trains were snowbound. Train No 3 from Dubuque was buried three miles east of Jesup. crews battled cold to reach stranded passengers. Local figures note deaths, relocations, lectures, and upcoming events amid the crisis.
Volunteer observer ML Newton records a 14 day stretch with average minimums at 17.4 below zero and a 22 below reading Monday night. The Fortnightly club met at the Pickett home with J. H. Leavitt in charge recalling early days. News from Washington signals a Holzer building will house the main post office as Cedar Falls posts a new postmaster. Rev J E Ensign speaks against the devil at Troy Pa. Manches ter court reporter J B Newman was locked in a courtroom last week with only a window exit. Jennie Handsaker opens a millinery store after buying the B S Wilson establishment.
The piece reflects on Wagner's boastful self-assurance during Tristan and Isolde and Stevenson's denial of life apart from work. It cites Schopenhauer on joy in use of one's powers, and ends with a Chicago Plain Dealer fragment praising labor as the ultimate value.
A Sioux City Tribune column critiques opposition to a ship purchase bill seeking government ownership of a merchant marine. It argues vested interests resist public utilities, praises comparisons and cautions against improper measures, using examples from family, education, and literature to illustrate judgment.
Ruth Cameron notes how casual remarks about people can spark harm by implying one person is better than another. The piece argues comparisons are odious and often misused, echoing politics of everyday judgment and social sentiment.
Des Moines, Feb 3. Attorneys said canvassing of the saloon petition will be finished by mid next week. The court will then hear a long line of witnesses on signatures as temperance lawyers urge action.
Advises mothers that California Syrup of Figs provides a pleasant tasting gentle cleanse for children’s bowels. Promotes use when children are irritable feverish or have sour stomach and notes a teaspoonful clears foul waste within hours. Encourages asking druggists for 50 cent bottle and warns against counterfeits.
The piece discusses strategies to minimize signatures through forced reductions and forgeries to invalidate a petition, with saloon lawyers claiming temperance gains. It notes witness work could replace ruled-off names, and a calculated young man comments on love in a cottage as a plan while pondering paternal intentions. The Evening Courier circulates widely in Waterloo.
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