Wateries Evening Courier long ad and opinion page fragments
A shuffled column from Wateries Evening Courier includes advertising notices and editorial discussions on marriage law amendments, eugenics tests, labor education, and political commentary. It reflects 1920s public policy debates, labor movements, and forecasts, with references to the APL, Des Moines labor college, and Mellon tax plan, mixed with scattered notes on astronomy and prophecy.
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Wateries Evening Courier
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No, No Nora No What Causes Colds and Worms
Dr Brady answers reader questions on child illness worms and winter dermatitis. He cautions against false worm cures and explains that most worms cause little health disturbance, urges physician diagnosis, and covers tonsil x ray questions and winter skin care.
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Angwer
Parker Named Campaign Director for Coolidge Effort in Iowa
Addison M. Parker of Des Moines is appointed manager of the Coolidge camp in Iowa. A four term state senator, Parker is praised as capable and widely connected in Republican ranks, expected to deliver a businesslike, nonconfrontational campaign.
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Des Moines
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Coolidge
The Sandman Story By Mrs Fla Walker
Mr Fox wakes to a world buried in heavy snow. He surveys a landscape where fences vanish beneath drifts and wonders how to reach the barnyard. He muses on a sled or plank to glide over the snow and contemplates his chilly morning plan.
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Sandman
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Burroughs Nature Club Notes Column Query
Question column asks readers to send Natura subject questions to the Nature Notes Dept. and promises answers in this column. It presents two inquiries about king snakes diet and water needs, and whether birds extend their tongues or obtain ivory from hippos, reflecting curiosity about natural history.
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Gallern
Nature Notes
Answers on nature clues and creature breathing traits
A reader asks how pants breathe via stomata like leaves, and how owls’ facial feathers may act as hearing trumpets. The maggot’s tall is a breathing tube with a pore for air, enabling underwater respiration while buried.
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Reid
Mary Contrary’s Valentines Puzzle Seeks Nonmatching Recipients
In a puzzle by Sam Loyd, Mary distributed four valentines to four boys and then returned them, with none of the boys receiving their own card. The question asks the odds that no one got back his own valentine under this misdistribution. Also a word puzzle yields the result ADIRONDACKS from a sequence of word merges.
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Mary
Valentine
Virginia Fairfax Faces Romance and Rebellion in Early Los Angeles
Virginia Fairfax, daughter of Virginia’s first families, rebels against her grandfather’s puritan rule and becomes a motion picture actress. In LA she befriends Gloria Summers and meets wealthy Herbert Richardson, who courts Gloria. A party invitation sparks tension as Gloria and Virginia navigate flirtations, pride, and danger in the film world. A separate note adds a postal delivery policy update.
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Virginia Fairfax
Virginia
Los Angeles
Gloria Summers
Herbert Richardson
Gloria
Friend Wife By Rob Fulkerson
Imogene confronts Andrew about paying his secretary Miss Black a Christmas bonus. He reveals a week’s pay plus $5 to buy a chest, insisting the gift is harmless. She suspects implyed affairs and future hopes, presses for details, and questions the secretary’s fiancé Jack while Andrew dismisses concerns.
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