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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1915
Page
2
A shuffled page combines wire service remarks, police and political commentary, and brief notices. It cites wartime analysis from a columnist, a police case treatment, and references to public figures like William Jennings Bryan, with scattered notes on travel, passports, and prohibition era discourse.
Opinion piece arguing citizen soldiers are essential to national defense and criticizing minimal reserve forces. Calls for a 600,000 trained national guard plus 200,000 regulars, condemns employer resistance to militia service, and urges encouragement of enlistment despite current undertraining and manpower limits. Mentions England’s wartime limits and Russian prospects amid Austro-German defeats.
The allies have ordered fifty thousand artificial fees from a Pittsburgh firm. A sad comment upon war. Fortune favors the brave, they, 82y. But it is usually the brave who fall in battle.
The Adams column ponders why many people repeat learned social patterns, often behaving automatically in public life. It contrasts routine politeness with deep personal focus, noting how habits shape daily conduct and social interactions.
A nostalgic travel sketch lauds Santa Fe as a growing yet old city with a rich arc of history. It contrasts Santa Fe with Boston and New York, notes its founding in 1605, and highlights landmarks like the capitol library Kit Carson relics and Spanish papers while reflecting on earlier governors and frontier odds.
A reader-column discusses self belief and selfishness as natural traits shaping charm. It contrasts unselfish living with practical self care, and notes idealism without common sense. An anecdote about a clever writer defines charm through the author’s own qualities, followed by a Q&A on siblings living together and finding peace apart.
A collage of editorials notes police crackdowns on vulgar street talk in Hampton and other towns. It cites headlines about teachers, suffrage in Wisconsin, and a Manchester Press critique of lawyers’ fees. Editors warn about bias, defend lawyers, and lampoon jokey editorials about lawyers and undertakers.
A fragment notes that a legislature resisting women’s ballot rights and delaying Sunday saloon openings undermines broader reform efforts. It frames village option as insufficient and hints at stalled progress on social changes.
A large prideful frog in a pond noises to deter a woodcutter planning to cut trees for a house. The frog’s whistle like croak unsettles the worker who returns daily, fearing the unknown sound. The story centers on the frog guarding his pond and woodland.
A tale where a woodcutter is repeatedly frightened by a loud frog in a pond. The frog’s croaking grows hoarse from overuse, and when the woodcutter finally investigates, he discovers the source of his fear. The frog ends by returning to the pond in frustration, leaving the woodcutter triumphant.
Des Moines Tribune notes a Philadelphia ruling that garnishing future salaries amounts to peonage and is illegal. It describes salary assignment as a common loan shark method in eastern cities and warns of new Toledo style laws to regulate loans going into effect tomorrow, urging strict enforcement and possible further restrictions.
Foley & Co receives letters from grateful customers praising how Foley Kidney Pills cure backache sore muscles stiff joints and other kidney and bladder troubles with rapid relief from lumbago and rheumatism due to kidney issues. No other remedy has a longer record of cures. Sold by all druggists everywhere.
Iowa Senator Cummins defends his antirailroad baggage clause and his “Cummins amendment” while blaming Reed for the contested transportation provision. He criticizes the West’s baggage rule and notes backlash from travelers and performers as the law nears enactment. He praises the Minneapolis neutrality plan for foreignborn citizens.
Warning against mercury containing catarrh ointments, urging use of Lisa's Catarrh Cure by FJ Cheney Co Toledo. Promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure and Hall's Family Pills. Claims tests and testimonials available, with price per bottle and retail by druggists.
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