Local Waterloo paper notes shoplifting booze scam and tariff debate
The Waterloo newspaper comments on a Sao City boozy keg sting turned rain water and mocks the fraud while urging restraint. It includes analysis of Senator LaFollette warning on tariff rates and their impact on workers, industry profits, and prices, arguing current duties favor manufacturers over labor.
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Bao City
Tao
Soo City News
Waterloo
Tata
Pinkerton
Michael Angelo
Rubens
Lafollette
Shay
Republican Party
Saves Ed Company
Beacon Manufacturing Company
Dartmouth
Tincoln
Tecumseh Mills
King Phillip Mills
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Why Physio the Baby and Infant Feeding Debate
Personal Health Service by Dr. William Brady reviews letter from a reader about feeding a newborn. It argues for breast feeding, warns against inappropriate substitutes, and highlights risks of constipation and improper nutrition from cow milk and canned formulas. It cites mothers' choices, asks for medical guidance, and notes responses to reader questions.
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Congress of Fishwives
FW. S
Dr. Brady
Willam Brady
Coney Island Pink Lemonade Ban Sparks Comic Rant
Andrew laments New York board of health curbs on Coney Island vendors. He catalogs pink lemonade, open sausage cooking and five cent hamburgers with onions, imagining a joyless future as Imogene challenges his obsession. The playful exchange ends with a tense glance and a whistle.
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Imogene
Yasebdall Park
Board of Health
New York
Coney Island
Society For the Prevention
Burroughs Nature Club Answers Questions
A 1951 nature questions column invites readers to send inquiries to the Nature Notes Dept. Answers to queries about nighthawks planting seed preparation kangaroos and joey care will appear in tomorrow's Nature Notes.
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Burroughs Nature Club
Houghton Mieflin CO
Nature Notes
Inquiries on Birds Pests Ponds and Plant Care
A reader asks when the common duck is nesting and laying and describes nest sites. The note covers black ducks on the river and timing from mid April to mid May. It also asks about swarming mid spring insects likely Chironomidae. Additional questions address indoor air signs on warm afternoons and plant watering tips to prevent surface drying and root damage with slow subterranean watering methods.
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Chirlonomidae
Brain Tests by Ram Loud Card Puzzle
A scrambled word puzzle instructs adding and subtracting everyday items to reveal the word Chimpanzee. The challenge asks to answer yesterday's query by selecting from options such as yesterday, what, hat, none, one, blame, lame.
Double Crosed on a Ocean Voyage
Clement navigates a shipboard social game as a bold rival gang blocks his access to Miss Heloise Reys. The large fat man and the Gorgon segnify a calculated attempt to thwart his efforts, while Clement plots a counterplay to win the partner table and assert his wits.
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Maxwell
Clement
Jarre
Gorgon
Heloise Reys
Neate Smythe
Heioise Reys
Clemant
Héloise
Heloise
Ireland
Jaay
The Lesson of the Birds and Other Vignettes
A fragmentary column blends Frank L. Stanton verse on sorrow and song with prose about social scenes, Ireland talk, and a long reflection on responsibility and fame. It references Theo dore N. Vail, Anson, and President Harding, then shifts to Iowa dairy industry growth, capital policy, and labor unrest, concluding with a light note on fish and coal concerns.
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Sioux City Journal
State Food and Dairy Commission
Commission
Iowa
Abe Martin Th' New Janitor of th' Courthouse
A humorous note mentions Abe Martin now serving as janitor of the courthouse, once an editor in Fortune. Banty Kits, en route to the regular army, is shown viewing Fort Harrison.
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Morpheus
Carl
Waterloo
Waterton
Mr. Pullman
Mile
Suzanne Lenglen
Moira Mallory
Carpentier
Dempsey
Suzanne
America
Moira
Jang
Fortune
Banty Kits
Fort Harrison
Vail’s Fame and the Price of Ambition in 1917 Letter
Theodora WN Vail’s January 1917 letter to a Waterloo friend reflects fatigue under heavy responsibility. She recalls Anson Marshalltown’s captaincy and ponders whether remaining in baseball might have brought greater fame, noting Vail’s later global recognition in railway mail, telecom, and engineering. He admits wistfulness about choices, recognizing fame exacts toil and discouragement.
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Pinyer
Marshall
Town
Waterloo
Angon
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