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6580, 18 Published Daily Except Sunday. by WH Hartman Co. Waterloo Iowa. Contained notices, ads, and opinion pieces on expenditures and public policy. Includes discussion of Prohibition era politics and Wilson House break, with references to Associated Press and Audit Bureau of Circulations.
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Blow Nose Drills in School a Lost Art Warns Doctor Brady
Personal Health Service by Dr. William Brady discusses nasal blowing drills taught to children in England as a remedy for adenoids and nasal discharge. It argues old schoolroom air and confinement harm health and urges home practice, plus answers to reader questions on height and pimples with conservative guidance.
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FRIEND WIFE By ROE F PULKERSON
A humorous dialogue portrays a couple debating buying a radio set. Imogene nudges for listening, while Andrew humorously laments radio woes from distant stations, church broadcasts, stock reports, and evolving tech, ending with a quip about a wife’s appearance.
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Dreaming of You Poem Fragment in Poor OCR
Fragmentary OCR shows a poem about dreaming of you with misspellings and archaic imagery. The lines invoke longing, blue eyes, summer song, and love, though many words are garbled. No clear event or person names. appears as an isolated verse fragment.
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Hidden Family Plots Strain a Soldier’s Return Home
An intense wartime love and deception tale unfolds as Sheila discovers a sister Susanne forged letters to ruin Walter and Sue. Walter returns to confront past treachery, while legal and familial pressures push him to choose between duty, forgiveness, and money from a father’s will.
Fifty Years Ago In The Courier Jan 16 1873 Bl ind Man Elo quent to Lecture
News items from The Courier recount Rev Wilr Milburn known as The Blind Man Eloquent will lecture at Hansell’s hall on Jan 25 with topic What a Blind Man Saw in London. A brutal storm chilled Sparta Wisconsin to 45 below zero and stranded trains. Embargo on rail travel froze lines for days, with crews battling drifts up to 15 feet. Waterloo serenaders plan a calico masquerade ball with silver goblet prize. marriages and local notices follow. Missing details note J Block of Ackley praising the Courier. Board of supervisors appoints Sherif Brown Gary Conger and Caleb May to direct the poor farm. A. K. Jenkins, bridge foreman, dies of exposure on a Rock Rapids to Sibley stage. nine others frostbitten.
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Local News Bits From Winslow Cedar Falls and Kimball
A late 19th century scribble reports Henry Daniel harvesting walnut timber near Winslow with a single long limb promising 1,000 feet of fuel lumber. It notes La Porte City hunters bagging 21 rabbits and Cornelius Miller’s family staking claims near Kimball, D. T. A Cedar Falls land sale adds 35 acres for $2,000. Mrs. J. P. Sherman dies at 32 after a Christmas cold, with husband and two girls surviving. A railway clerk’s resignation leads to A. T. Pomeroy’s appointment. The piece also mentions a recent theft at Dr. J. H. Crippen’s office and a horse incident injuring a child, plus diagonal tracks reaching Gladbrook and blizzards and drifting snow affecting rail travel. A king and three brothers story fragment hints at prime succession and hidden chamber intrigues as tension builds toward tomorrow’s continuation.
Sheila Elliston Refuses Love Ends in Prison and Escape
A melodrama tracing Sheila Elliston, nurse to Mrs. Wilmington, through an affair with Walter Jones Jr. and a past crime. She is framed for theft, sentenced to three years but paroled, trained as a nurse, then marries Phil. Susanne Jones and threats of exposure drive a dangerous web of deceit and a fiendish plan.
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Abe Martin on government aid and farmer debt
Abe Martin notes it will be interesting to see how the government plans to assist farmers with loans to lift debt. He comments that men in small towns often marry too soon or not at all, reflecting on rural life and social norms.
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Presbyterian Church
Chinatown
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Retirement of Prof Bartlett at Iowa normal school
Twenty years ago on Saturday January 17 1903 Prof Moses W Bartlett head of the English language and literature department at the Iowa State normal school notified trustees of his intention to retire in June 1904. He has been with the faculty since 1876 after exchanging with Prof D Sands Wright and earlier taught mathematics Latin and Greek at Western College before Cedar Falls.
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Tomorrow-Walter Jones' Story Clarifies Intent to Marry
A fragment notes a dialogue about love and intent to marry. The speaker asserts there was no wrongdoing and asks for reassurance that the partner intended to marry and be a good wife, urging truth to prevent distress. The snippet appears from a column or personal item titled Tomorrow-Walter Jones' Story.
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Burroughs Nature Club Notes Answers
1921 notes from Burroughs Nature Club discuss common questions. Topics include the rumor of snake stones as snake bite cures the size of the biggest insect and whether wood ducks build nests. Answers promised in tomorrow's Nature Notes.
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Answers to Questions on Sturgeon Giraffes Parrots and Cockatoos
Answers address whether sturgeon are food fish noting roe is luxury caviar and leather from skin and air fins used. Giraffes are not fast runners in the wild. their pacing gait complicates speed on uneven terrain. Parrots and cockatoos differ by size behavior and crest coloration. cockatoos form a family with large size, bright crests, and White plumage common.
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Remember the Girl and the Bible in a Death Row Note
A grim mix of old clippings recalls a murder near Waukon by Earle Forost, a Fort Madison death sentence looming, and a sniveling Christmas letter to a Waukon Methodist pastor about religion. The piece shifts to bonuses for veterans, labor debates, and odd parable-like tales, including a Charlie-esque story of a king’s sons and a long digression on a “parlor rabbit” punishment.
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Algerian sheep shipped to France due to drought
Algerian flocks are being transported to France in large numbers as drought continues in northern Algeria. The harsh conditions make pasture scarce and unable to sustain the sheep.
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Rope Trick Ripples Through Chinatown Shop
A Chinese sailor bargains with a Filipino shopkeeper over rope. The Chinaman buys twenty feet for two cents a foot, spots the yardstick short by three inches, and uses a counterfeit five dollar piece to cause a loss. He pockets the piece, leaving the shopkeeper to cover the fake payment. The riddle asks the shopkeeper’s loss and the resulting arithmetic puzzle.
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