ELOO EVENING COURIER and Associated Press Directory
The ELOO Evening Courier, published daily except Sunday, lists offices in Waterloo and New York with staff titles including President, Secretary-Treasurer, and General Manager. It details subscription rates, advertising terms, and international travel office locations in London Paris Berlin and more.
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Eloo Evening Courier
Associated Presa
West Fort
Avenuan Wartman
Fy Easter
Percoson
K. Sec'y-Treas
Mgr
York Ofice
Guy Tribune Bilding
Lukens
Ciledge Ofice
Tribune Building i
W. Aden
Evening Courier
Bet Week
Br Carner
Reail
Outeide
Zee
Wateriog
Wa Wateriso
THER
Europe
Waterloo Evening Court
London
Trafalgar Building
Northecumberland Avenue
Areness Express
Haymarket
Dawes Steamsbugy Agency
Paris
Boulevard Des Capucines
Comer
Fopets
Amencen
Rue Scribe
Bkerlis
Ater den List
Petersby
Azar
Peper
Ford five dollar daily plan sparks debate in labor views
The author compares Henry Ford’s wealth distribution to a fairy tale, praising Ford as a strong employer but warning that indiscriminate pay risks demoralizing workers and society. The piece questions how five dollar a day wages affect thrift, work ethic, and harvest-season labor. It notes Ford’s other idea to align shutdowns with harvest needs and questions workers’ willingness to toil for lower pay.
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Henry Ford
Detroit
Mr. Ford
Ford
Jean
No Rule for Success and Economic Shifts Discussed
The piece argues toward broad economic lessons from Ford and a self-made man, noting how generosity can spoil workers and urging national welfare. It cites Wisconsin eugenics marriage law, warns of future factory readjustments, and predicts broader shifts as free trade and price changes unfold for corn and beef, affecting all Americans.
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Orien
U& le Rockweller
Wisconsin
Recorder of Deeds
We rejoice that President Wilsons vacation achieved all aims
Report notes that President Wilsons vacation has met expectations and ends with anticipation of further duties. The item highlights the presidents rest and productivity, implying renewed vigor for national leadership and upcoming tasks.
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Wilson
Ideas of a Plain Man by Dr Frank Crane Excerpt Moral reflection
The piece argues that true satisfaction comes from doing good discreetly. It contrasts public generosity with private virtue, noting hypocrisy and self contempt. It cites Dumas and ancient elites to claim secret almsgiving suppresses pride and ingratitude.
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Frank Crane
Alwayve
Dumas
Judge Lynch By George Fitch
A harsh polemic praising and mocking Judge Lynch as a symbol of mob justice and frontier law, contrasting his open air court with formal American courts and lampooning legal technicalities that delay punishment for criminals. The piece mocks racial bias and calls for harsher, immediate punishment.
Political Jabs, Local Egos and Education Shuffle
The piece surveys Washington clout, hotel pride in Waterloo, Thaw’s return to front pages, and Iowa politics with Fifth District redistricting hints. It notes Chicago education’s abolition of sex hygiene teaching and weighs Freeport boosters possibly relocating to Waterloo as the “best city in Iowa.”
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Iowa
Good
Chicago
Board of Education
Freeport
Waterloo
Guernsey heifer sets butterfat record in Iowa
The Dubuque Telegraph-Herald notes a Minnesota Guernsey heifer produced 588 percent pounds of butterfat in the last year, equaling about 700 pounds of commercial butter. Wilbur Marsh of Waterloo is urged to confirm the claim as the best Iowa offers.
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Marsh
Dubuque
Cedar Rapids Debate Over Suspected Recruiter Exile
A speaker argues against sending a man accused of attempting to recruit for the white slave trade out of town, saying if criminal he should be punished locally, and if not a criminal he has a right to stay in Cedar Rapids. The remark condemns helping another community while denying Cedar Rapids residents.
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Jodge Lynch
Mexico
Central
Africa
Norj
Cedar Rapids
Anna
New York Post
The Problem of Every Town
The Town Falls Sentinel argues for permanent main road improvements into town. It proposes a rural concrete road fifteen feet wide with gravel shoulders funded by a seven year city paving plan costing about 10 dollars per year per sixty feet of frontage, with one third covered on agricultural land. The plan would extend paved streets to nine main roads, covering about 107 city blocks, within the five mile improvement allotment. The piece asks why farmers cannot learn to build roads.
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Town Falls
A Moment of Fun After the Holidays
A collection of light anecdotes from newspapers and jokes about holiday recovery and family life. The pieces describe impatient boys with new toys, a Christmas tree in slush, a mother busy with chores, and a father overcoming postholiday moods, with witty exchanges from several papers.
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Louisville’ Courier-Journal
Learn to Laugh at Annoyances in Daily Life
Ruth Cameron shares a hostess waterpipe mishap seen through humor. A sister’s cheerful laughter helps friends endure a cold night, carrying pails up stairs and bailing the leak. The piece extols laughter as a cure for irritation and gloom, citing Reade and Stevenson on finding joy in misfortune.
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Peg Woffingtonu
Charles Reade
Stephenson
Haphazard farming warned by Iowa association head
Amaés Ia Jan 9 Special Geo M Allee president of the Iowa Agricultural Experiment Association told members at Iowa State College that haphazard farming cannot profit high priced land. He urged farmers to use experiment and study to choose grain and corn varieties and methods that yield permanent returns as the 1913 reports from the association indicate.
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Amaés
Iowa
Geo. M. Allee
Newell
Towa Agricultural Experiment Association
Iowa State College
Iowa Farmers Aid Corn and Grain Variety Tests Across State
Nine hundred Iowa farmers joined with the state experiment station to test improved corn and grain varieties on acre plots, reporting yields under precise directions. Director J Buchanan cites valuable results including lime and inoculation boosting alfalfa yields across fourteen counties and Iowa 103 oats showing over two and a half bushels per acre gain over local varieties.
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Iowa
State Experiment Station
J. Buchanan
Association
Golf and the Sedentary Man in the Dubuque Review
The newspaper reports Sandow condemning golf for sedentary workers suggesting a restful weekend. claims golf harms many and lacks exertion, while noting octogenarians playing daily at Des Moines links. It argues golf offers no superior exercise for men over thirty five despite Sandow’s muscular credentials.
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Dubuque
Sandow
Golf for health and walking as standby exercise
The article promotes golf as based on physiology, claiming it revives neurasthenics better than any activity and suits indoors confined men. It adds walking as a second option when golf isn’t possible, suggesting leisurely pace with occasional deep breathing rests. An advertisement notes Black Hawk Automobile Co phone change from 479 to 281.
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The
Black Hawk Automobile Co
Rheumatism Powder Claims Cure by Decade of Suffering
Madison Wisconsin January 1 1913 M D Reynolds testifies he suffered rheumatism since 1894 contracted while working on a railroad snow plow He relied on crutches much of the time after using three boxes of Merital Rheumatism Powders he discarded the crutches and nears full recovery He endorses the remedy with thanks and recommends it Cross Drug Co Henderson Drug Co sole agents.
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Madison
Wis
M. D. Reynolds
M.D. Reynolds
Ted Cross Drug Co
Henderson Drug Co
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All Waterloo
Judge Lynch
George Fitch
John Doe
United States
South
Lynch
Jayneh
Sors
White House
Russell-Samson
Harry K. Thaw
Spirit OF the Iowa Press
Des Moines
la Follette
Davenport
Webster City
Freeman-Tribune
Kansas
Argentina
Taois
Indiana
Woodrow Wilson
Cedar Rapida Gazeltes
Detroit Free Press
Washington Herald
J. H. Schenck & Son
Philadelphia
Ruth Cameron
UNC
Scott
the Fowler Co
Waterloo Cheese
H. Latier
Lafayette Street
Fourth Street
Courina
Propriet
Lafayette Building
4Th St. B
DR. I
Bazard
Black Hawk Bank
E. H. Knittle
NAT. Bank
F. C. Liffring
Lafayette
DR. Gerrit J. Bennett
West Fourth
Elmwood and Western
DR. Bodwell
Srd Floor Syndicate Bldg
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