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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1916
Page
12
The article outlines leap year 1916 with its 360 days, lists calendars in the city, and notes astronomical events and movable feasts. It includes dates for eclipses, solar and lunar, and mentions important holidays and anniversaries.
A fragment lists feast days from John the Baptist in midsummer to Advent. It includes Michaelmas on September 29 and St Andrew on November 3, with notes on St Nicholas and St Thomas and period references to Advent and Christmas Day.
Fred G Tryon of Minneapolis a University of Minnesota graduate is chosen as the next Rhodes Scholar to study at Oxford. The 24 year old earned high honors in 1914 Phi Beta Kappa and Delta Sigma Rho membership. He held the Shevlin fellowship this year and posted a 97.6 percent average. The Rhodes trust provides 1500 dollars annually.
Washington, D. C., Jan. 7. With out opposition the senate confirmed the nomination of Postmaster Huff man of Des Moines and also post masters at the following towns: Tsoone Ringsted Alden Avoca Manchester Knoxville ausalie Albert City Oelwein Guttenberg Emerson Mount Springville Lorimer Centerville Ira Batavia Clear Lake Harley Hawkeye Humboldt Clidden Leon Neosauqua Clearfield Center Point Harlan Eldora.
The Birth of a Nation at Waterloo theatre uses staged orchestra actions to trigger gunshot and scream effects. A technician sits at stage left with electric buttons and a typewriter linked by wires to lights and devices, coordinating cues while the orchestra and audience watch.
A garbled passage describes a man watching a screen as a limousine arrives to deliver a pistol. A light signals the shot and mob sounds rise. a keyboardist keeps rapid typing pace. The text mentions Cart A. Lambert and an ensemble with unclear affiliations.
In Van Minnesota a man with no feet speaks with a friend about the cold weather and his inability to move. The dialogue notes the temperature and the blunt realities of hardship faced by the disabled speaker.
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