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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1919
Page
2
The piece questions President Wilson's approach to treaty negotiations, notes Senate ratification roles, and weighs whether his method serves the public. It cites Detroit Prohibition outcomes, labor impacts, and predicts future air travel and political shifts amid postwar talks.
This health column notes the impact of early diphtheria antitoxin use within 24 hours and prophylactic doses for family members, plus the value of tetanus antitoxin in preventing lockjaw. It also covers Bright's disease prognosis and constipation treatment, inviting readers to mail questions for general health guidance.
Andrew vents disgust at life and society in a dialogue with Imogene, listing neighbors and common woes from debt and ambition to vanity and discontent. Imogene counters with humor and insight, reflecting on long marriage and shared habits as a coping pattern. Copyright Trenmei 1st Century Press HC.
The Hawk-Eye notes hogs up to twenty two dollars a hundred pounds and Iowa holding about one seventh of U S porkers. The Cedar Rapids Republican argues brick clay in Iowa will turn to gold as paving begins, predicting value in clay beds for road material.
A Lincoln Iowa reader cites a five year fight to open a long closed road from Lincoln to the Grundy county line two miles away. The note claims road delays create local discontent among businessmen and residents amid ongoing road questions.
A sea queen of mermaids keeps a sunfish as a favorite. A jealous jellyfish plots to destroy it by driving the sunfish into a boiling pool. The queen exposes the schemes, punishes the shellfish, and the sunfish aids a wounded perch before reporting the truth. The big shellfish becomes a jellyfish. Then a political notice from Iowa Falls comments on soldiers' influence and the upcoming vote.
The piece criticizes President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor for his stance against intoxicating liquors and forecasts, arguing he ignored evidence of what liquor bans achieved in great centers. It cites Detroit Mayor Couzens, noting Detroit’s vast Ford Motor Company connection and as a major labor employer, to bolster the argument.
In Waverly Ohio near the aqueduct and Emmitt's Mills ruins a snake about 20 feet long and 10 inches in width is reported. Gus Reed recalls sightings two years ago and last year, with Reed seeing it crossing a road recently. A former snake charmer’s escaped snakes may inhabit the old distillery ruins. A New York inventor demonstrates a film technique with eight photos per frame.
Puzzle style item by Sam Loyd presents four sentence blanks to fill by placing a decapitated word in the first space and its head in the second. The misdirection in phrases yields humorous or paradoxical results as readers deduce the missing word pair. The page also promises an answer to no 119 and credits 1915 copyright to Sam Loyd.
Farmers donated land and moved fences for a crossing but the railway company refused. Their slogan "they shall not pass" frames the dispute. Auto drivers fear engines stopping at the crossing and Lincoln township dangers, as the railway commission began hearing the case.
A vintage ad-like item promises a freckle and tan lotion made by squeezing two Lemons into three ounces of orchard white to yield four quarter pints. It claims low cost and daily use will fade freckles and blemishes, leaving soft rosy skin, with suppliers noted as grocers or drugstores.
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