Waterloo Evening Courier and Europe Advertiser Notes
Local Waterloo newspaper page items include shipping and travel notes, foreign postings, and political chatter. Mentions places like Tribune Building Waterloo housing courier offices in Europe and various global post offices, plus remarks on Governor Ferris and the Michigan copper miners strike and upcoming primaries.
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Erico Evening Courier
Associated Preas
A. Harthaz Company
West Park
Baeruax
A&w
Tribune
AU W. Allen
ty. + co
Courier Trewebely
Ne Aer
Calibrx
Axk
Europe
Waterloo
Fle
Adon
Travelgear
Northcumberland Avenue
American Express
Haymarket
Lawe's Steamship Agency
Boulevard Des Capucines
de l'Opers
Americas Express
Ikue Scribe
Berlin
Unter den Linden
St. Petersburg
Nevsky Prospekt
Bros
Ferris
Michigan
Twelve Men Arraigned on Vagrancy Charge in New York
Twelve men appeared before a New York magistrate charged with vagrancy. Each chose three months in the workhouse as their sentence. The magistrate called the scene the saddest he had witnessed and reflected on wasted lives and lost opportunities.
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New York
Democratic spoils in Washington allegations sharpened
The New York World denounces the Democratic spoils system at the government printing office where Public Printer Cornelius Ford promoted thirty nine Democrats and reduced thirty one Republicans salaries. The piece mocks the supposed efficiency as partisan favoritism and urges strong censure by superiors. It notes looming political shifts involving New York figures and Mr Ford amid party tensions.
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Sus
Picion Baer
The
New York World
Wikson
Washington
Cornelius Ford
Mr. Ford
Ornelius Ford
Democratia
Ford
Democratic Party
New York
Buttons and a Congressman in Iowa Pearl Button Industry
In the Second Iowa district a special congressional election is set to fill a death vacancy. The Pearl button industry, started in Muscatine from Mississippi mussel shells, faces high costs and protectionist tariffs against cheaper Japanese production. Also notes Moyer of the Western Federation of Miners and a critique of panic allegations after Calumet. and farmers from Ringgold County returning from Louisiana with less money but more sense.
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Sioux City
Iowa
Muscatine
Mississippi River
Japan
Moyer
Dubuque
Webster City
Freeman-Tribune
Ringgold County
Louisiana
Gabriel
Ideas Of A Plain Man By Tr Frank Crane
The piece discusses individual identity and social union. It explores how life’s challenge is to merge with others, the role of love as union, and how giving and forgiveness reflect self-esteem and virtue. It cites philosopher views on God and happiness, ending with a meditation on sharing and spiritual connection.
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Man
Frank Crane
Gunnar
Thee
Victor Hugo
Voltaire
The Investment in Education as Life's Dividend
A reflective piece comparing parental spending on a child to an education as a long term investment. It urges serious use of time and talents, warns against early dissipation in trivial pursuits, and stresses growth, development, and societal progress driven by disciplined study.
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Vening Post
Sone Parent
Approach of the Millennium Reflections Across Iowa Papers
Headlines from Des Moines Register and Leader and other papers note reform hopes amid high living costs. A tongue in cheek remark about hydrophobia and auto suggestion predicts similar cases in Waterloo. The Des Moines Tribune warns groundhog antics offer little January brightness.
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Des Moines Register and Leader
Marshalltown Times-Republican
Waterloo
Des Moines Tribune
Rolfe Reveille Notes Food Prices and Politics
Local notes report food prices remain high while politics are described as cheap. The item contrasts consumer costs with political discourse in Rolfe.
Submitting The Capitol Extension To The People
Cedar Rapids Republican argues for delaying capital extension action until voters decide. The piece urges referendum on a project costing millions, contending the public should approve taxes and highway plans, and questions politicians whether the people have the right to vote.
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Cedar Rapids
Capitol Extension
Clarke
Iowa
Des Moines
G@larke
Rancher seeks 320 acres in Pike National Forest for elk venture
A rancher applies for a lease of 320 acres in the Pike National Forest Colorado to operate elk farming as a commercial venture in connection with adjacent private land.
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Pike National Forest
Colorado
Naples as Cinderella of History and Declining Abodes
The article narrates Naples as neglected yet rising in status thanks to steamboat tourism and new infrastructure. It contrasts Naples with Rome and Florence, notes 2,500 years of quiet labor, and highlights crowded streets, multi-story alleys, and a population of about 600,000 with diverse industries including tourism and organ grinders.
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Naples
Vesuvius
Rome
Florence
Pompei
Sec
Vich
Navlos
America
Tts
Tt Ia
Apora
Thrift Society Echoed As Reform Force In Society
The piece argues the American Society for Thrift as a modern force against extravagance and useless giving. It praises voluntary citizen action over legislation and notes state governors’ approval, linking thrift to social restraint and community effort.
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Ual
Society For the Prevention of
Department of Agriculture
A Moment of Fun and War Talk Snippets
A collection of humorous quips and dialogue from Chicago Record-Herald Kansas City Journal and Boston Transcript. The lines range from playful remarks about cold feet and purses to wartime calls to seize cannon and melt metal for medals. Farmer Corntoster closes the excerpt with a frost theme.
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Chicago Record-Herald
Kansas City Journal
School administration and consolidation in the Midwest
Sioux City Tribune notes that South Dakota would elect 10 000 school officials to oversee 5 000 teachers under existing district arrangements. It suggests Iowa may share the ratio and argues for county unit systems and school consolidation to ensure equal treatment, better teachers, and expert supervision at the same cost to taxpayers.
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Sioux City Tribune
Lawrence
South Dakota
Iowa
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United States
Harry K. Thaw
Frst
Ralph Lopez
Sulzer
New York Grata
Spirit OF the Iowa Press
Lfe
Reg
U.S
Pal Off
Walter Baker &Co
Ero Dorchester,mass
the Society For Thrift
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
American Society For Thrift
Thrift
Fielding
Benjamin Franklin
Richard
Iaskin
Washington Star
Bobbie
Hostess
Boston Transcript
St. Peter
Dallas News
Josh
Farmer Corntoster
DR. Pierce
Golden
Hileman & Gindt
Clu
East Fourth Street
West Third S
L. J. Benser
F. H. Latier
Lafayette Street
Fourth Street
Bos
Lafayette Building
Cornerith St. E
Bazard
To & P
Black Hawk Bank
E. H. Knittle
F. C. Liffring
Osteopathic
Lafayette
Dr, Gerrit J. Bennett
West Fourth
Elmwood and Western
Ralston
DR. Bodwell
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