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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1911
Page
6
A jumble of quotes from newspapers playfuly riffs on memory loss and financial nerves. A line about forgetting name house number and phone while a memory taxoverwhelms the mind. A bank busts, a buried stash, land signs and trespassing notices add further comic missteps. A Wall Street flyer ends with the same old market bump to close the quip.
The Sunday School lesson reviews biblical examples of young rulers and prophets who served the Lord from childhood. It highlights Josiah who began ruling at eight, reformed Judah, rebuilt the temple at twenty-six, and kept his heart toward God, though later years brought failure. other youths like Samuel and Jeremiah are noted for divine service early in life, with a call to imitate Christ as the ultimate example.
A survey of sermon lengths from historic figures to modern jests shows famed preachers like Hooker Cranmer Bunyan Calvin Baxter and Knox delivering lengthy discourses while late 19th century clergy and a North of England vicar offered strikingly brief messages. Instances include a Ocean Grove minister’s “Don’t worry it’s wicked” and a God so loved the world remark that pared a sermon to its essence, alongside a charity appeal in Ohio where a single gesture raised the largest local collection. A London Mail note recalls a M P feigning illness to vote, later found dead before the division tally.
A recipe for a home spot remover uses castile soap water and ether with weed alcohol, claimed to remove stains from wool. The page also recalls Robert Barclay Allardice’s famed walking feats, fashion shifts in muff lore, and quips from humorous columns in 19th century papers.
A Charleston neck auction ad from 1758 mentions an amusement labeled a golf baan, implying golf as a local pastime in colonial Charleston. Other notes trace golf activity to 1785 1791, with club anniversaries and venues at Williams coffee house and Barleston’s green, showing early organized play.
A Minneapolis manufacturer describes his hiring approach focusing on willing workers over perfect credentials. He details how strategic use of want ads boosted staffing, illustrating a practical path from advertisement to skilled hires.
The piece quotes M Burke on reputation as a nation’s cheap defense and as the “morse, manly exertions.” It argues reputation yields labor and talent beyond wealth, fuels genius, and requires every man to grant it with scrupulous justice and prudent economy, attributed to Smith.
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