Waterloo Evening Courier 1920s Education Budget Debate
The Waterloo Evening Courier reports on Iowa education funding debates. The State Board of Education seeks 12.06 million dollars for universities normal schools and colleges while Representative Young attacks board composition and arithmetic. The piece critiques a proposed fourteen member junket to inspect institutions and questions the value of the board versus legislative scrutiny.
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State Board of Education
University of Iowa
State Teachers, Normal School
Agricultural College
Ames
Young
General Assembly
Kendall
Iowa
Board of Education
Health Talks and Public Affairs Reflections
Health Talks by Dr John R Huber AM discusses pest control balance and humane bird protection while warning against overzealous destruction. Answers cover torpid liver and hot pack care and cite Ben Franklin on reason. Senate proposals on marriage licenses require mental and physical fitness proofs, urging prudent restraint and naval disarmament ideas amid global tensions.
Nature Notes Q and A on Life and Wildlife
Readers are invited to submit questions to the Nature Notes Department. Answers from the previous column cover topics such as horsepower versus living animals, Fremont squirrels, and owl head rotation.
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Nature Notes
Friend Wife By ROE FULKERSON
Imogene urges Andrew to attend Ruth's wedding and dress for daylight knot tying while he resists. She mocks frock coats and imagines great men and sports heroes in them, arguing for participation amid a comic clash of fashion and duty.
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Andrew
Imogene
Ruth
David
Saul
Horatius
Tzila
Greece
Ike Walter Johnson
Babe Ruth
Lani
Humphi
Wigstle By The Way Poem Fragment By Frank Stanton
A fragmentary verse praises sunny weather and singing birds with a call to whistle and enjoy May. The playful dialect notes a cheerful, sunlit prospect and the idea of lifting spirits without low grounds or sorrow as a sunbeam finds its way to lift song.
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Ballelula
Valleluia
Dempsey’s ring entry sparks frock coat feud
In a comically heated exchange two friends discuss a wedding attire disaster and a frock coat fiasco. One denounces the garment as absurd while another realizes a tailor’s error. The scene includes quips about fashion and a delayed delivery.
Extending Aid to Iowa Before Foreign Help
A Des Moines Capital editorial urges prioritizing local relief over foreign aid. It argues Iowans can support themselves, noting many in Des Moines lack work and may suffer hunger or cold. The paper invites readers to report Iowa cases needing immediate relief and urges local officials to address unemployment.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Europe
Brain Tests and Tax Ideas Stir Public Thought
A column by Sam Loyd questions charity versus abstinence from blaming improvidence, critiques tariff talk and trade barriers, and discusses public attitudes toward tax policy and protectionism. The text references a town bulletin, censorship talk, and a cryptic puzzle about Jaguar, hinting at broader debates on government, economy, and culture.
The Testing of Brenda Grace Shells Cop Cate
Brenda Nielsen, a native St Thomas island girl turned American, travels to New York to study art. Friend Roger Daly, a newspaper man, helps her through intrigue with an underworld woman and later departs for Russia. Brenda faces finances, romance, and work challenges at an art school and theater as she supports her family back home.
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Brenda Nielsen
St. Thomas Island
United States
New York
Roger Daly
Brenda
Daly
Roger
Russia
Gordon Lee
W. C A
Caseelberry
St. Thomas
Goldstein
Correct English None Use Resolve on None in Grammar
Cedar Pails, Feb. letter to the editor argues for correct English usage and defends the singular verb with none when used as a pronoun. It cites Dryden to show none as singular, noting the phrase None of them was there as correct, though contrasts with plural forms in other contexts.
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A. Lynch
Iowa State Teachers College
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Dryden
Woman Note on Politics and Marriage
Ruth Cameron argues that political contention between spouses reflects temperamental differences, not danger in women engaging in politics. She predicts future normalization of equal suffrage and notes most women will vote with family traditions, while warning against coercive pressure and noting the secret ballot protects individual choice.
New Lamp Burns 947 Air A New Lamp Burns 947 Air
A new lamp advertised to produce a brilliant white light claims superiority to ten ordinary oil lamps. It burns with no odor smoke or noise uses 94 percent air and 8 percent kerosene and is offered on a 10 day free trial with a chance to earn monthly income by becoming an agent.
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U.S
J. E. Johnson
W. Lake St. Chicago, Jr
Bayer Aspirin Ad Claims Genuine Package Only
Take no chances with substitutes. If you do not see the name Bayer on the package or tablets you are not getting genuine Aspirin prescribed by physicians for twenty one years and proven safe by millions. Use Bayer for cold Headache neuralgia rheumatism headache toothache lumbago. Handy tin boxes of twelve Bayer tablets cost a few cents. Drugeists also set target packages. Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer Manufactur of Monoacetic acid ester of Salicylic acid.
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Phere
Pesta
Great
Hrstein
Australia
England
Ben Franklin
Obarved
Bayer
Bayer Manuf
Foley ad promises old time cure all by mail
Cut this slip and mail to Foley & Co for a trial package of Foley's Honey and Tar Compound for coughs and colds, Foley Kidney Pills for pains and rheumatism, and Foley Cathartic Tablets for constipation and digestion. Sold everywhere.
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Foley & Co
Sheffield Ave
Chicago
Foley
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