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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1911
Page
2
A notice stating the Evening Courier can be mailed during trips out of town with address changes allowed. Subscription rates in advance are 10 cents for one week and 26 cents for one month.
In Waterloo the Slouch Club draw attention for wearing paths across lawns and trimming yard corners. Editor urges property owners and pedestrians to cooperate to keep grass and curb urban ugliness.
A collage of clipped Iowa newspaper lines jokes about primary races and national politics. References include Lafe, insurgents, Des Moines Capital, Canadian reciprocity poll fraud, and comments from Sioux City Tribune, Dubuque Telegraph Herald, Cedar Rapids Gazette, and Council Bluffs Nonpareil.
Des Moines leaders press for a public market to curb high produce costs. Grocers report pressure from wholesalers and commission dealers warning price-cutting sales will trigger supply refusals. Citizens rally behind The Des Moines Register and Leader as farmers begin direct selling to consumers for fair prices.
Louisiana sugar planters and independent refiners fear the American Sugar Refining Company will ruin the Louisiana sugar industry if tariffs are cut, said J. E. Burguieres, president of the Louisiana Planters' Association, to the House Sugar Trust Committee in Washington.
The Missouri widows pension law awards up to $10 monthly for one child and $5 for each additional child to keep families in school. The piece urges local groups to push for such protections, cites Judge Porterfield implementing the Missouri law, and notes interest in English maternity pensions as a model.
In St Louis on July 17 a motion to challenge court jurisdiction over a receivership and mortgage foreclosure suit against E G Lewis enterprises was filed. Fifteen additional intervenors were petitioned. Judge Dyer asked Judge McPherson to sit with him and postponed ruling pending that assignment.
Mr. Perry A. Pitman of Dale Texas says he was bedridden four months with kidney and bladder trouble and gall stones until Foley's Kidney Remedy cured him. The ad urges asking for Foley's Kidney Remedy through J. K. Joder & Son.
Washington July 17 senators spar over a campaign publicity bill. Heyburn of Idaho says it may legalize buying elections while Lodge of Massachusetts argues it reveals money spent. The bill would require public disclosure of campaign expenses during the 15 days before an election and after.
Mrs. Emmons Blaine argues at the National Educational Association that the teacher holds the greatest opportunity to shape the nation. She warns that public schools bear heavy responsibility for democracy and urges educators to pursue devotion over money, stressing civic training, discipline, and communal duty for future voters and workers.
The text argues that true democracy rests on self discipline from within citizens not external control. Citizens must see themselves as part of a civic army with duties and rights, and the republic should start training these soldiers of the common good in the school of the citizen.
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